China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and other select domestic companies to report planned RTX Pro 5500 purchases, and plans to approve them. The GPU itself was announced by NVIDIA in September 2026 for large-scale AI models and simulations.
NVIDIA announced the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition in September 2026. The professional GPU carries 21,760 CUDA cores, the same count as the GeForce RTX 5090, paired with 84GB of GDDR7 memory with ECC support. That is 52GB more than the RTX 5090's 32GB. Memory bandwidth is 1398GB/s, and maximum power consumption is 600W. The company positions it for enterprise rack workstations that consolidate GPUs for AI models rather than for desktops.
Less than a month later, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology moved to let domestic buyers acquire the card. The ministry asked select companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to report how many RTX Pro 5500 GPUs they want and what they will be used for, and plans to approve the purchases, according to The Information.
That approval request follows the export easing that began after the US lifted its H200 sales ban and the two countries agreed to a truce running to January 10, 2027. The story is now a question of access as much as hardware: the specifications are settled, and the remaining movement is on the Chinese side, where the two largest AI buyers are back in line for the card.
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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked select domestic companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to report how many NVIDIA RTX Pro 5500 GPUs they want and what they will be used for, and plans to approve the purchases, The Information reports. The RTX Pro 5500 is a workstation GPU NVIDIA announced in September 2026 for large-scale AI models and simulations.
NVIDIA announced the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, a professional GPU with 21,760 CUDA cores, the same count as the GeForce RTX 5090. Its GDDR7 memory is 84GB with ECC support, 52GB more than the RTX 5090's 32GB. Memory bandwidth is 1398GB/s, and the maximum power consumption is 600W.