Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 listed at $17,999, above flagship RTX PRO 6000
11/06/2026 — 11/06, 14:18·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- A catalog listing from US reseller SHI Government Solutions shows PNY-made Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell workstation cards priced at $17,999…
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On November 6, 2026, cnBeta reported that NVIDIA's new Blackwell-based RTX PRO 5500 workstation GPU had appeared in the product catalog of US retailer SHI Government Solutions with a list price of $17999, or $17408.63 after the roughly 3.3% discount offered there. The card in question is PNY's RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, model VCNRTXPRO5500B-PB.
What makes the listing unusual is that the RTX PRO 5500 sits below the flagship RTX PRO 6000 in NVIDIA's lineup, yet its street price is higher. NVIDIA's official US store currently lists the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition at $16000. Even after discounting, the lower-tier RTX PRO 5500 comes out about $1409 more expensive.
In terms of specifications, the RTX PRO 5500 carries a Blackwell GPU with 21760 CUDA cores, 84GB of GDDR7 ECC memory, a 416-bit memory bus, 1398GB/s of memory bandwidth, and a maximum power draw of 600W. The RTX PRO 6000 offers 24064 CUDA cores, 96GB of GDDR7 ECC memory, and 1792GB/s of bandwidth, ahead on core count, memory capacity, and bandwidth.
The report also states that Chinese companies including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of these cards, and that supply and demand imbalance may explain the price inversion. As of now, the story rests on the SHI catalog listing, and NVIDIA has not publicly commented on the inverted pricing.
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A listing on US retailer SHI Government Solutions shows PNY's Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell workstation card at $17,999, or $17,408.63 after discount, above the $16,000 Nvidia charges on its own store for the flagship RTX PRO 6000. The card carries 21,760 CUDA cores and 84GB of GDDR7 memory. Reports say ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of the GPUs, and the supply-demand imbalance may explain the inverted pricing.
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