Yesterday, a Dutch retailer falsely pointed out a reminder of MSI RTX 5090 GPUS, in particular the MSI RTX 5090 Suprim. MSI and Nvidia categorically refuted these accusations, reassuring customers that their products do not have such risks. The cause of this escape was a reported communication error. While the retailer finally retracted his declaration, MSI could pursue legal action. You can read the press release from MSI below:
“We had the unpleasant surprise to learn on 06/03/2025, via an article on the Kitguru website, that a Dutch retailer – a game specialist – informed a customer that they were unable to comply with his order because the 5 GeForce RTX 5090 32g Soprim Soc of our brand had been recalled due to a fire risk.
With this declaration, we would clearly like to indicate that these allegations are absolutely false, that no recall program is in progress and that our products present any risk of this type.
In addition, we would like to specify that this retailer is not one of MSI’s partners, and we do not work with them.
We reserve the right to initiate legal proceedings against those responsible for these very defamatory allegations, which harm the reputation of our brand, as well as against anyone contributing to its dissemination. “”
We contacted Nvidia for a comment on the situation, and a representative said: “No recall and it was a very strange interaction, these articles (of Kitguru) are now updated with the retailer information.”
The story stems from a light Misunction between the retailer, “your game specialist”, and one of their customers, Ben, who spent nearly $ 3,700 for a MSI RTX 5090 GPU, per Kitguru. In the long term, a representative of the store told Ben that the order could not be filled, saying that Nvidia recalled certain RTX 5090 graphics cards due to a “risk of potential fire”.
It is a heavy accusation because a recall admits the faults of the products, a situation that no company wishes. Even Intel did not remember his Embarrassing lake raptor The processors since it would put a serious series in its net profit. The impact of this false relationship could extend to defamation allegations, which could open the door to potential proceedings from MSI or Nvidia. MSI moved away from the store, leading customers to one of its authorized resellers.
With the bad representative Nvidia Blackwell GPUs have become, it is easy to get carried away by rumors. Nevertheless, User reports have shown an uneven current distribution in RTX 5090 GPUs, leading to cable temperatures to almost 150 degrees Celsius. This will certainly melt a connector or two if used for prolonged sessions. Then we have the apparent hypotheses that the Design limitations With Blackwell, the GPUs make them unable to balance the load on each supply connector pin.
The launch of the RTX 50 series could be one of the heaviest in Nvidia’s history. Even after two months, you have to sell an arm and a leg to get an RTX 5090. Assuming that you manage to secure one, there is always the risk of Missing ropswhich is the cause of a production defect that is shown to cut Performance up to 11%. Blackwell also leaves the support for Cuda 32 bitsimpacting inheritance OpenCl Code and the games that use more Physxx implementations.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GPUs in the series are in full swing, although the stock was limit at launch. There are not as many PDSF models as we expected, but stocks should catch up with the request sooner or later.