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 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…