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A truck disguised as a food transport vehicle picked up six pallets of Nvidia hardware worth $11.4 million after they left Oakland bound for Texas on August 29, according to ABC7 News. Investigators lost track of the truck in San Bernardino County, and Oakland Police received a theft report on September 13; no arrests have been announced.
Nvidia is implementing another round of price increases across its RTX 50 series graphics cards this week, with the RTX 5090 rising by nearly $500 on top of its roughly $6,000 price tag. Lower-end cards like the RTX 5050 and 5060 will see smaller increases of $30-60. Earlier RTX 40 and 30 series cards are not directly affected by this change.
A buying guide advises gamers to first match a monitor's specs to their existing GPU, noting that pairing a high-end panel with a weaker graphics card wastes its refresh-rate potential. It also recommends weighing resolution against refresh rate depending on game genre, and considering panel type, HDR, brightness, ports and VRR features like G-Sync, along with monitor size and aspect ratio.
The latest monthly GPU pricing survey across 10 countries shows graphics card prices climbing for another consecutive month, following a 7% month-over-month jump reported in September. Entry-level cards like the GeForce RTX 5050 saw steep increases in the US, rising from a $310 starting price to $420, while high-end RTX 5090 availability remains severely limited, pushing the RTX 5080 into the role of Nvidia's effective top gaming card.
Nvidia has taken down GeForce RTX 5080 listings from its own marketplace, days after similarly removing the RTX 5090. Street prices for the RTX 5080 have reportedly risen to more than double its $999 MSRP as stock dwindles at US retailers, while other Blackwell cards like the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti remain listed as out of stock rather than delisted.
Razer's reviewed Blade 18 configuration packs an Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile GPU (24GB, 175W), a 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus CPU, 32GB of DDR5-6400 RAM, a 2TB SSD, a 99Wh battery, and a dual-mode 240Hz/440Hz IPS display. The unit costs $5,400 and weighs just over 7 pounds, with a CNC-milled aluminum chassis measuring 15.74 x 10.84 x 1.10 inches. The reviewer compares it directly to the Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 10, another high-end 18-inch desktop-replacement laptop.
Retail listings show the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, launched at $999, now selling for $1,999 to nearly $3,000 at retailers including Best Buy, Newegg, Micro Center and MemoryC. Stock is scarce, with many listings limited to local pickup or third-party Amazon sellers, and even the cheapest widely available reputable listing matches the RTX 5090's original $1,999 launch price.
A benchmark compared viiwork's kv_share feature on two RTX 5090 machines connected via 1 GbE, a direct 10 GbE cable running Tailscale, and the same 10 GbE cable sending kv_share traffic directly. The test ran a coding-agent workload building a todo app, measuring 12-session and 16-session runs over 90 minutes to see how network speed affects whether a session's cached prompt reaches a second host before it's needed.
Footage circulating online shows workshops in China desoldering GB202 GPUs and GDDR7 memory from new GeForce RTX 5090 cards, then rebuilding them with blower-style coolers for server racks. The operations reportedly process both custom partner cards and Nvidia Founders Edition units, repackaging them for shipment to data centers or AI labs.
Brazilian police investigating the theft of two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 GPUs worth about $470,000 from São Paulo/Guarulhos airport say three outsourced workers were involved: two forklift operators seen on CCTV removing the pallets and a third employee accused of clearing the goods through electronic security checks. Separately, a Brazilian TV network identified one of the missing cards listed for over $6,000 on the marketplace OLX, after the seller's photos accidentally showed a serial number matching the stolen inventory; the listing has since been removed.
A Zotac RTX 5090 traced back to the $470,000 GPU shipment stolen from Guarulhos International Airport was found listed for sale on OLX for over $6,000, identified by its serial number in photos posted by the reseller. Police have named three airport-linked employees, including two forklift operators and a checker, as suspects in removing and releasing the pallets from customs before they vanished.
Leaker Kepler_L2 says Nvidia's next mainstream GPU, likely called the RTX 6060, may not launch until 2029 due to ongoing DRAM and NAND supply constraints tied to AI data center demand. The same shortages are reportedly already delaying the rumored RTX 50 Super lineup and pushing the full RTX 60 series back to around 2028.