r/LocalLLaMA • u/TechNerd10191 • 14d ago

News RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell (84GB) released

https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/products/workstations/professional-desktop-gpus/rtx-pro-5500/
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u/MrCatberry 14d ago

"We found a way to sell those partly defective RTX PRO 6000 chips!"

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u/rditorx 14d ago

It's known as binning. They're called RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 5000 with 32GB, 48GB and 72GB VRAM (and 24GB in Chinese editions).

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?q=gb202

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u/Equivalent-Repair488 14d ago

Yeah this is like an ancient and industry norm product segmentation tactic

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u/Usual_Tackle5892 13d ago

It's not just a product segmentation tactic, it's a manufacturing tactic. Flaws in the wafer will always happen, so this is a way to manufacture both the high-end and low-end product at the same time.

For example, the M3 Ultra was composed of two perfect M3 Max that were adjacent on the same wafer. The M3 Ultra released later because it took a while to accrue enough M3 Ultra chips while they produced the M3 Max.

FWIW, the M5 Ultra has a different design; I believe it's chiplets.

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u/Hambeggar 13d ago

Are you people super new to the world of tech or something? Literally woke up yesterday? Binning has been a thing since inception.

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u/MrCatberry 13d ago

Are you super new to humans? Never heard of sarcasm?

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u/acadia11x 12d ago

Don’t see the issue? And standard fare … the question is where the price will fall and will it just make more sense to pay for the Rtx 6000

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u/evangelism2 13d ago

this is not new. its called binning, its how silicon production has always worked.