Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 China Orders Top 3 Million Before Delivery, Leiphone Says

The card was being pitched to customers in August and appeared on Nvidia's website about a month later, Leiphone reported, citing server product manager Xia Yinqing. Xia described domestic purchasing as 'crazy' and said order volume had reached several million units, close to Nvidia's projected global capacity. A large company has been rumored to plan a 1 million-card purchase, while Tianyang Technology, which is expanding into computing-power leasing, signed a contract for 20,000 cards; its shares rose 12.38% on the day the purchase was announced on a WeChat public account, according to the report.

Leiphone reported that the RTX PRO 5500 has 84GB of memory and supports MIG, allowing it to be split into two 42GB compute instances for separate AI inference jobs. At FP4 and FP8 precision, its theoretical compute is about twice that of the RTX PRO 6000D, according to the report, which cited official specifications and Xia's data. A computing-center service provider told Leiphone that Nvidia positioned the product as a professional workstation GPU to make regulatory approvals easier. Expected quotes are concentrated between 80,000 and 120,000 yuan; one large-company quote was about 85,000 yuan and some channel quotes reached 87,000 yuan. The RTX PRO 6000 server version has seen channel prices rise to 180,000-190,000 yuan, Leiphone reported.

Delivery timing is disputed. Leiphone said foreign media, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Nvidia plans to start China deliveries in late December. A channel source told Leiphone that deliveries could begin as early as late November, while Xia said top server makers with OEM ties would receive sample cards in November and still need testing and server adaptation, making mass delivery likely in the first quarter of next year.

The order surge has unfolded alongside a supply scare for Nvidia's flagship consumer card, the RTX 5090. Social-media reports overseas said Nvidia planned to shift GB202 chip supply toward the RTX PRO line, including the RTX PRO 5500, and away from the RTX 5090; Nvidia has not confirmed the claim, according to Leiphone. Prices for the 5090 have already risen, with some Chinese channel quotes around 57,000 yuan and a reported one-month increase of more than 50%. Leiphone cited respondents who disagreed on whether the 5090 would be discontinued, with some expecting a production cut rather than a full halt.

GPU pricing is also distorting workstation deals. TechRadar Pro reported that Dell's Pro Max Tower T2 with an Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell 6000 GPU costs $15,149 at Dell, while the standalone card is listed at $16,400 at EmpoweredPC and $26,900 at Newegg. The base configuration includes an Intel Core Ultra 5 235 processor, 8GB of DDR5 memory and a 256GB SSD, and Dell offers upgrades up to 128GB of memory and 4TB of storage, according to the report.

At the lower end, TechRadar Pro reported that the Getorli GT106 mini PC is priced at $450, down from $500. It pairs an eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 H255 processor with 16GB of DDR5 memory, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, Radeon 780M graphics and Windows 11 Pro, and supports up to four 4K monitors through HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4 and two USB4 ports. The report noted that the single 16GB memory module leaves one slot free but initially runs in single-channel mode.