RTX 5090 becomes a smuggling target

A Reddit post says the RTX 5090, once a consumer gaming card, is now appearing on smugglers' menus alongside cigarettes, reflecting gray-market demand for high-end GPUs under controls.

• RTX 5080 reportedly pulled from NVIDIA marketplace2026-10-30
• Nvidia reportedly stops RTX 5090 orders from board partners2026-10-27
• RTX 5090 seen in Chinese labs, with dies and 32GB VRAM harvested for AI servers2026-10-24
• User melts wall socket running 4x RTX 5090 rig2026-10-19
• Two pallets of ZOTAC RTX 5090 GPUs worth $470,000 stolen at Brazilian airport2026-10-19