Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy RTX 5090 gaming GPU

What happened

Micro Center requires photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy RTX 5090 gaming GPU (a chip built for many calculations at once, used for graphics and AI), according to Tom's Hardware. The form requires RTX 5090 buyers to input their personal data before getting approved to make the purchase. However, it remains unclear how Micro Center can use this information to track illegally exported GPUs.

A Micro Center customer who bought an RTX 5090 in Tustin, California, was required to sign an Advanced Computing Product Purchaser Declaration form, which bars exporting the GPU, before being approved to purchase the GPU. According to u/Krothic’s post on the r/Microcenter subreddit , they bought a PowerSpec AI90 Workstation with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer), an RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU, 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM, and a 2TB SSD from the retailer and were surprised when the manager required them to sign the form.

Key facts

• Micro Center — requires: photo ID and signed no-export pledge to buy RTX 5090 gaming GPU, according to Tom's Hardware
• The form — requires: RTX 5090 buyers to input their personal data before getting approved to make the purchase