RTX 5090 Shipment Worth AZN 799,000 Goes Missing in Brazil

A shipment of graphics cards belonging to Oderço, an electronics and IT products retailer in Brazil, has gone missing. The shipment was worth about $470,000 (approximately AZN 799,000) and consisted of 2 pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 graphics cards. According to the company, the shipment arrived at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo but could not be located afterward. It has not yet been disclosed when the incident occurred.

Oderço has not shared details such as the shipment’s arrival date or tracking numbers. The company says it has received no official response to its inquiries. The distributor therefore posted a public appeal on its Instagram account, asking for an explanation regarding the shipment’s fate. Oderço emphasized that this was the first such incident it had encountered in its 38 years of operation.

The exact number of missing graphics cards is unknown because the company only provided information about the 2 pallets. The Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 currently sells for about $8,000 (approximately AZN 13,600) on Amazon. An online store in Brazil lists the price at 33,999.99 reais. Based on that price, the shipment could have contained at least 63 graphics cards. However, 2.5 million reais is not the retail price but the company’s purchase cost. The actual number of cards is therefore believed to be considerably higher than 63.

The RTX 5090 is currently one of the hardest graphics cards to find on the global market. The model began selling out at online retailers in mid-September. Nvidia is alleged to have halted production to focus on more expensive professional artificial intelligence cards. The company denies these reports. Meanwhile, the Micro Center online store lists the product as a discontinued model.