NVIDIA’s latest RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards have a thick launch, and now, new reports suggest that some RTX 5090 units may fail after updating the latest NVidia drivers. Users of Chinese forums, including Baidu and Shiphell, as well as reddit, have reported issues where their GPU is not detected by Windows after installing the latest driver updates, including support for DLSS 4.
In particular, the owner of RTX 5090D, a version for the Chinese market, appears to be the most struggle with the report of units affected by brands such as colorful, gigabytes and Mantra. However, the problem may not be exclusive to this model, as the user has reported similar issues on R/Asus subredit at least one RTX 5090 founding version.
A possible cause can be PCIE 5.0 compatibility. Hardware critic Der8auer stated that his RTX 5080 version felt consistently crashed and black screen while using PCIE 5.0, an issue that disappeared when switching to the PCIE 4.0 in the BIOS of the motherboard. While Windows Central Senior Editor Ben Wilson successfully tested the RTX 5090 at PCIE 5.0 using pre-immunity drivers, the problem can only affect some hardware configurations.
Time may not be bad for early adopters, who are already facing stock deficiency and steep scale prices. With standalone RTX 5090 and 5080 cards, it is almost impossible, which is to face important issues after spending $ 2,000 or more on GPU, the last thing is expected by buyers.
For now, NVIDIA has not yet accepted the issue, and there is no official improvement. If you are the owner of an RTX 5090 or 5090D and are facing problems, rolling back to the earlier driver version or switching to PCIE 4.0 in your BIOS settings may be a temporary workaround. RTX 5070 TI and 5070 are launched next month, and AMD’s next-GPU is coming in March, which are still waiting to upgrade, they can dodge an expensive headache.
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