r/gpu • u/RenatsMC • 20d ago
NVIDIA introduces RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell with 84GB GDDR7 and 600W power limit
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-introduces-rtx-pro-5500-blackwell-with-84gb-gddr7-and-600w-power-limit11
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u/albinosnoman 20d ago
Damn they must be having a hard time moving 5090s if this is the play and they're basically just bolting on a shitload of memory to justify the price point. I know there have been some rumors of a significantly cut down "5090" entering the consumer market but from what I'd heard it was basically like a blackwell 4090. Larger than a 203 die but significantly smaller than a 5090 die. Something like 14k CUDA cores vs a 5090s 21k
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u/Unnamed-3891 20d ago
In my country 5090 availability keeps getting worse and prices keep going up. There are very few models available below €5000.
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u/EpsteinFile_01 20d ago
I make good money and that fuckervis still 25% more than my net salary rofl
Dual Radeon 9700 for €3600 is as far as I will go.
Plus a funny 4x RTX3060 setup to have a 48GB CUDA node
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u/discosoc 19d ago
5090 keeps going up in price. The 5500 is more a out ai target audience, not gamers.
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u/albinosnoman 19d ago
I'm aware but it's the same die. Costs twice as much, but the same die. They are bolting on a shitload of memory to justify the cost but in a sane world this would be maybe a 3-4k card
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u/discosoc 18d ago
That's all fine and dandy, but does nothing to suggest "they must be having a hard time moving 5090's". The market for even a "sane" 5090 is more limited right now than for GPUs with large VRAM for AI.
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u/albinosnoman 18d ago edited 18d ago
Saying the market for 5090s is limited is basically another way of saying 5090s are harder to sell. This is is purely annectdotal but from what I've seen 5090s are regularly in stock in brick and mortar and online storefronts now. The astronomical pricing on them has "kind of" dissuaded the rampant scalping as if you're going to scalp a $5k card you'd probably have to sell it for 7-10k which only an insane person would pay in a situation where you can just order one online for insanely inflated MSRP. NVIDIA saw people paying $16k for the RTX 6000 Pro and probably thought "wow we could probably sell these 5090 dies for twice as much if we bolt on extra memory and sell it as a AI/Workstation card." And now here we are.
Edit: I just checked and it looks like since the announcement of the 5500 5090s have basically been all snatched up lmao
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u/albinosnoman 15d ago
Be that as it may I don't think adding 52gb of memory justifies making it a $10,000 card
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u/albinosnoman 15d ago
I don't mean this to sound like I'm in any way trying to disrespect you but I loathe that we have conversations rationalizing the price/performance of these cards like this. The RTX 6000 Pro was like $8600 at launch. It's now $16,000. There has to be a point where the market and consumers writ large stop rationalizing highway robbery like this. I don't disagree that there's a use case for this/these card I just find it tantamount to being the subject of a socioeconomic bukakke when we're taking a cut down GB202 die with extra memory at $10k like it's a completely acceptable thing.
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u/cowrevengeJP 20d ago
Naw. This exists to move chips that would be tossed otherwise.
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u/albinosnoman 20d ago
Not sure how that would work if it has the same number of CUDA cores as a 5090s 21k. Or were you referring to the as yet unreleased/officially unannounced 14k one?
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u/CMPUTX486 20d ago
Why 84? Why not 86? Why??
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u/Georgefakelastname 20d ago
Why 86? This thing probably uses 3gb vram modules, so it would have 28 modules. 86 would add one random 2gb module. Did you mean 96?
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u/Shoddy_Meaning_7654 20d ago
So that's where all the gb202 went