the card costs more than the trip, the cooler weighs more than the suitcase

RTX 5090, once a consumer gaming card, is now on smugglers' menu alongside cigarettes

Nvidia's RTX 5090, launched as a consumer gaming flagship, has started showing up in cross-border smuggling busts alongside untaxed cigarettes, according to a viral forum thread. The card's high retail price and import duties make it profitable to move quietly through customs, where the sheer size of its cooling assembly makes it awkward to hide. Commenters treated the comparison as the natural endpoint of GPU pricing, not an exaggeration.

Source: RTX 5090, once a consumer gaming card, is now on smugglers' menu alongside cigarettes — r/nottheonion

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