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NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 Listing Spotted at $17,999, More Than the Flagship RTX PRO 6000

What happened

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5500 "Blackwell" workstation card has appeared at US retailer SHI Government Solutions, built by PNY (model VCNRTXPRO5500B-PB), with an MSRP of $17,999 and a discounted price of $17,408.63 — costing more than the flagship RTX PRO 6000, which NVIDIA's own US marketplace lists at $16,000 despite that card having more CUDA cores (24,064 vs. 21,760) and more memory (96 GB vs. 84 GB), so even at SHI's discounted price the cut-down card costs around $1,400 more. NVIDIA has not announced official pricing since it quietly added the RTX PRO 5500 to its lineup in September, and it is unclear whether the $17,999 figure comes from NVIDIA or PNY. Videocardz points out that Chinese demand is probably a big factor behind the RTX PRO 5500's price; according to Reuters, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have ordered over 3 million RTX PRO 5500 cards at roughly $11,400 each, with total orders from China reportedly topping 6 million. One source said NVIDIA can make no more than 3 million of them in 2027. With the B300 barred from China and the H200 reviewed case by case, the RTX PRO 5500 is one of the strongest NVIDIA GPUs Chinese firms can still buy. The card packs 28 GDDR7 modules at a time, even as memory prices keep climbing. With orders far ahead of supply, it is reasonable to expect RTX PRO 5500 pricing to stay high for a while.