NVIDIA's RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs appeared for sale on JD, China's largest retailer, on May 14, 2026. The listings were removed shortly after being exposed on social media. These GPUs are officially banned for sale in China, so the units were likely smuggled into the country.
Listings removed after social media exposure
The RTX 5090 blower model listed has 32GB of VRAM. The RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell was offered in two variants: a server version with 96GB VRAM and a desktop version also with 96GB VRAM. The RTX 5090 was priced at 35999 CNY (about $5,290). The RTX PRO 6000 server variant was listed at 91999 CNY (about $13,518), and the desktop version at 76999 CNY (about $11,314).
The listings were on third-party storefronts on JD, not directly from NVIDIA. Leaker MEGAsizeGPU (Zed Wang) noted that JD had been selling the unofficial RTX 5090 blower for a long time, and the exposure led to the removal of all links to the RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000. The US recently cleared H200 chip sales to ten Chinese companies, including ByteDance, JD, Tencent, and Alibaba.
NVIDIA has not commented on the listings. It remains unclear how the GPUs entered China despite the ban.
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