Oderço says two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 GPUs worth $470,000 vanish in São Paulo airport

Shipment disappears after arrival

Brazilian electronics and IT distributor Oderço says it is seeking answers after two pallets of Zotac RTX 5090 GPUs worth about $470,000, or R$2,500,000, went missing at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo. The company said the shipment was expected at the airport and reportedly arrived there before disappearing, and it called the episode unlike anything in its 38 years of history.

Oderço said it has received no official response to its shipment inquiries and turned on Instagram to plead for answers. It did not provide the arrival date or tracking numbers for the missing pallets.

The card count is still unclear

The company confirmed only that two pallets were involved, so the exact number of missing GPUs has not been disclosed. A Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 is listed around $8,000 on Amazon and at R$33,999.99 from Brazilian online retailer Promotech.

Based on those references, the report estimates at least 63 missing GPUs, while noting that the likely count is much higher because R$2,500,000 is described as acquisition cost rather than the retail price the cards were expected to fetch.

RTX 5090 supply is already tight

The disappearance comes during a global shortage of the RTX 5090, with the top tier card vanishing from online retailers in the middle of September. Micro Center currently marks the GPU as not carried in its online store.

There have been rumors that Nvidia has stopped producing the GPU to focus on more expensive professional AI cards, but Nvidia insists otherwise.

High value hardware thefts draw more attention

The report also points to a wider pattern of high value graphics card shipments being targeted. One group rammed security escorts to hijack an AI hardware shipment, while another stole two trailers bearing the Nvidia logo and found sand inside.

Sources: Tom's Hardware