Gaming takes a backseat as Nvidia overhauls the RTX 5090 for optimum AI margins — RTX Pro 5500 delivers 2.6X VRAM at matching specs

The GeForce RTX 5090 is undeniably among the best graphics playing cards cash should purchase. Banking on the truth that many already use it for AI, Nvidia has bolstered it with much more reminiscence and launched it as the brand new RTX 5500 Pro Blackwell Workstation Edition. It affords comparable specs to the GeForce RTX 5090 however distinguishes itself with 84GB of GDDR7 reminiscence, 2.6X greater than the Blackwell gaming flagship.

The RTX Pro 5500 options the GB202 silicon, the powerhouse die that powers different high-end mainstream {and professional} Blackwell graphics playing cards, together with the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX Pro 6000, and RTX Pro 5000. In truth, the RTX Pro 5500 makes use of the identical die because the GeForce RTX 5090, which implies 170 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) are enabled out of a potential 192. As a consequence, the RTX Pro 5500 has 21,760 CUDA cores and affords efficiency corresponding to the GeForce RTX 5090. The differentiator is the reminiscence subsystem, the place the RTX Pro 5500 excels.