Buying an RTX 5090? You Need to Promise You Won't Export It First

When you buy an RTX 5090, you don't just need $5,000—you also need to sign a form declaring you don't intend to ship the card overseas. This follows the card's price skyrocketing in recent weeks, with many reports claiming Chinese data center builders are buying up the cards in large quantities and shipping them back home.

The RTX 5090 was always a Titan-tier graphics card. At twice the price of the RTX 5080 and with more VRAM than gamers can use, it was clearly a prosumer card from the start, and its $2,000 price at the time reflected that. But in the world of AI data centers and scarce enterprise GPU supply, this top-tier gaming card has become the next best solution, and it's made it completely unaffordable for gamers.

Now, with prices that can reach $12,000 in extreme casesand $5,000+ for even stock versions of the card, Micro...

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