Nvidia RTX 50 Cards Spotted with Missing ROPs, Nvidia Confirms the Issue

For those of us not in the relevant loop:

    Raster Operations Pipeline (render output unit) is a hardware
    component in modern graphics processing units (GPUs) and one
    of the final steps in the rendering process of modern graphics cards.

    ROPs perform the transactions between the relevant buffers in 
    the local memory – this includes writing or reading values, as 
    well as blending them together. 

    Dedicated antialiasing hardware used to perform hardware-based
    antialiasing methods like MSAA is contained in ROPs. 

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_output_unit