RTX PRO 5500 China Orders: What’s Confirmed [2026]

Three of China’s biggest tech companies have reportedly asked Nvidia for millions of RTX PRO 5500 cards, and the order book is far bigger than anything Nvidia can ship. Reuters reported on October 20, 2026 that ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent together ordered more than 3 million of the cards, worth more than $35 billion at list prices of roughly $11,400 each. Those RTX PRO 5500 China orders now sit at the center of the AI hardware story.

A November 4 follow-up from Bloomberg widened the picture. Chinese AI and cloud companies reportedly ordered about 6 million cards in total, nominally worth around $70 billion,…