NVIDIA today quietly added another card to its pro-viz product lineup with the RTX PRO 5500 "Blackwell" workstation GPU edition. Featuring 84 GB of GDDR7 memory, it is equipped with a GB202 die that includes 21,760 CUDA cores. This is the same CUDA core count as the consumer GeForce RTX 5090 SKU, but it is now certified for professional workloads and has a much higher memory capacity. The 84 GB of GDDR7 is connected to the GB202 with a 416-bit memory bus that delivers about 1,398 GB/s of memory bandwidth. This would put each GDDR7 memory chip at about 26 Gbps per pin, which is a standard GDDR7 memory speed, but not the fastest available on the market. Additionally, to achieve the massive 84 GB capacity, there need to be 28 memory modules. NVIDIA placed 14 GDDR7 modules on the front side with the GPU die and 14 GDDR7 modules on the back of the PCB, effectively sandwiching the PCB.

Compared to the rest of the RTX PRO lineup, the new RTX PRO 5500 "Blackwell" sits just a tick below the flagship RTX PRO 6000 SKU, which has a slightly higher CUDA core count of 24,064 and a 96 GB memory capacity. However, the RTX PRO 5500 is also much more powerful than the RTX PRO 5000 in the 5000 tier. The RTX PRO 5000 "Blackwell" has a much lower CUDA core count of 14,080 cores, with up to 72 GB of memory. Technically, the new SKU is much closer to the RTX PRO 6000 than the RTX PRO 5000 SKU, just with a slightly lower core count and memory capacity. The official specification sheet follows, courtesy of PNY.

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell GPU is now generally available, bringing robust agentic and generative AI capabilities powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture to more desktops and professionals across the world.

The new GPU configuration offers AI developers, data scientists and creative professionals the hardware for modern, memory-hungry workflows—and arrives at a time when demand for NVIDIA Blackwell-class compute is higher than ever.

NVIDIA's RTX PRO 5000 "Blackwell" GPU has officially appeared with 72 GB of GDDR7 ECC memory, on the company's product page. Initially, NVIDIA launched an RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU with 48 GB of GDDR7 memory spread across 24 modules with the capacity of 2 GB, sandwiching the PCB on both sides. However, NVIDIA has now decided to update the GPU with the new 3 GB memory modules, which are upping the total capacity to 72 GB on a 512-bit bus with 1,344 GB/s memory bandwidth, making the card a much more attractive offer for professionals working in the fields of data science, AI, HPC, and many other areas such as professional video editing. However, this 24 module design with 12 GDDR7 modules on each side is less impressive than the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU, which arranges 16 such modules on each side of the PCB to achieve a remarkable 96 GB capacity.

As a reminder, the RTX PRO 5000 GPU is based on the GB202 GPU and carries 14,080 CUDA cores, 440 TMUs, and 176 ROPs. Upgraded NVENC/NVDEC blocks speed up high-quality encode/decode for live production and fast video editing. Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) gives IT and cloud/VDI admins an easy way to split a GPU into isolated instances, so more users get guaranteed, accelerated performance. NVIDIA has wrapped all of this in a 300 W TDP in a dual-slot GPU, with a blower fan. Pricing structure is still unknown, but given that its older sibling, the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, is retailing just under $10,000, we could see the 72 GB version just a grand or two lower. Additionally, as we see NVIDIA incorporating 3 GB GDDR7 memory modules inside more products, the company could be gearing up for a "SUPER" overhaul of the Blackwell gaming lineup.