NVIDIA RTX 4500 BSE launches at $29,000: what can this professional card actually do?

NVIDIA's RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell server card launched April 24, with European channels pricing it between €3,676.88 and €4,299.90 (roughly ¥29,452 to ¥34,442). The starting price sits at €3,670, or about ¥29,400.

The card uses a GB203 core with 10,496 CUDA cores and 32GB GDDR7 ECC memory on a PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Total board power: 165W. That figure matters because it enables passive cooling and single-slot thickness—you can pack these into 1U servers without overworking the data center HVAC. Compared to previous-gen cards, the efficiency gain resembles swapping incandescent bulbs for LEDs: same brightness, half the power bill.

This retail launch breaks from the old OEM-only model. Enterprises can now buy the card separately and pair it with servers from Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, or Supermicro. Primary use cases center on virtualized workstations, AI model inference, and high-density data center compute—scenarios where you need to squeeze every watt out of limited rack space.

The pricing sits in an awkward middle ground. For small-to-midsize businesses, a ¥30,000 card plus vGPU 20 software licensing adds up quickly. But if your workload genuinely requires professional-grade virtualization and you're watching both floor space and power bills, the value proposition sharpens. In data centers, every saved rack unit and kilowatt-hour translates to real money over time.

From a procurement angle, opening up single-card sales reads like NVIDIA testing the professional market—gauging how many buyers will pay for deployment flexibility. For technical teams needing custom configurations, that's a useful signal.