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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

MSI fervently denies RTX 5090 sales in China after pallets of illicit GPUs spotted in the country — company says it has identified 'unauthorized distribution unrelated to our sales policy'

MSI 5090 pallets.

MSI has issued a statement clarifying that it does not sell Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU, following a spate of rumors and a photograph circulating online depicting hundreds of MSI-branded cards at an unspecified location in the country.

Three days ago, a user on Reddit posted an image showing unattended pallets of RTX 5090 GPUs lying in a street in China. This prompted online chatter pertaining to a lack of enforcement for export controls, as the RTX 5090 is one of many high-end cards that are banned from export to China. Aware of the PR connotations of getting caught, or even accused, of dealing the GPUs in the region, MSI was quick to issue a rebuttal.

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