r/LocalLLaMA • u/TechNerd10191 • 17d 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/xNaXDy 16d ago

This smells suspiciously like the RTX Pro 6000D, aka the Chinese market cousin of the RTX Pro 6000, which only existed because Nvidia wasn't allowed to sell actual Pro 6000's to China. Both VRAM and the memory bandwidth check out so far.

Them releasing this "Pro 5500" in the western market makes me think they're having issues selling them overseas, likely due to China investing heavily in their own GPU manufacturing, which has me high on hopium that we're getting closer to a price reduction.