ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Prime OC 16 GB

[W1zzard]

The ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Prime OC sits one level below the TUF, which makes it more affordable. Surprisingly, it comes with the best cooler of all RTX 5060 Ti cards tested, and it's also the quietest model when its "quiet" BIOS is activated.

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[dirtyferret]

these prices are insane

 

[Chaitanya]

these prices are insane

Shitsus tax on top of nGreedia tax and now Trump tax added into mix.

 

[BMfan80]

Why is the PCI 5.0 x8 a negative?
You have shown that it doesn't affect performance, infact niether did PCI 4.0 x8 and only 4% loss on PCI 3.0x8.

If the card can't make use of the extra 8 lanes, it makes no sense to make it a negative.

 

[dirtyferret]

Shitsus tax on top of nGreedia tax and now Trump tax added into mix.

while nvidia pricing is insane (and greedy) and trump is a buffoon with no understanding of global economics, his tariff on China went into effect on 4/2. You figure all the testers had the cards for a week. Unless nvidia aired in all the cards after 4/2 (highly doubt it) the time line doesn't work. We import from china it can take some time to get a container off a ship, onto a train, off the train and delivered to a warehouse and then dropshipped or wholesale moved to another warehouse.

 

[Chrispy_]

Assuming the price is right (it should be MSRP being a PRIME model, once the scalping dies down) this is the one to get.
The inferior cooling of the TUF might just be sample variance, but any triple fan cooler is completely overkill for a 180W GPU already, there's no need to go spending silly money on every-larger and more expensive cooling hardware this tiny little GPU will never even be able to use.

I'm actually looking forward to seeing how some of the base/MSRP models are in more compact varieties. The Zotac AMP is nice, but that's a premium model, hopefully the base Twin Edge (or whatever they're calling it this gen) isn't a wimpy little 2-heatpipe solution that's intentionally sandbagged to make the upsell to the AMP! look like a good deal.

 

[rrrrex]

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[unwind-protect]

Why is the PCI 5.0 x8 a negative?
You have shown that it doesn't affect performance, infact niether did PCI 4.0 x8 and only 4% loss on PCI 3.0x8.

If the card can't make use of the extra 8 lanes, it makes no sense to make it a negative.

If you don't have PCIe v5 then the bandwidth actually goes down from only using 8 lanes.

And it's not that you can use the other 8 lanes for anything else in consumer boards.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Why is the PCI 5.0 x8 a negative?
You have shown that it doesn't affect performance, infact niether did PCI 4.0 x8 and only 4% loss on PCI 3.0x8.

If the card can't make use of the extra 8 lanes, it makes no sense to make it a negative.

-Because it's penny pinching on a $550 card. It shouldn't be losing any performance for that shit castle pricing.

 

[Bomby569]

If you don't have PCIe v5 then the bandwidth actually goes down from only using 8 lanes.

And it's not that you can use the other 8 lanes for anything else in consumer boards.

in 2025 is reasonable to abandon gen4 for new cards.
Of all the crap to complain about that makes no sense.

 

[BMfan80]

If you don't have PCIe v5 then the bandwidth actually goes down from only using 8 lanes.

And it's not that you can use the other 8 lanes for anything else in consumer boards.

Techpowerup has just shown that at PCI 3.0 x8, the card only loses 4%. Which means it doesn't matter that it has "only" PCI 5.0 at x8.
It makes more sense to not give the card x16 if it can get away with PCI 4.0 x8.

It still doesn't make sense why a negative, since it DOESN'T lose any performance over x16.

So what if it is a $550 dollar card, it hasn't lost anything losing the extra 8 lanes.
Even it it had the extra 8 lanes it is still going to look like another overpriced card.

 

[W1zzard]

Why is the PCI 5.0 x8 a negative?
You have shown that it doesn't affect performance, infact niether did PCI 4.0 x8 and only 4% loss on PCI 3.0x8.

If the card can't make use of the extra 8 lanes, it makes no sense to make it a negative.

mostly to raise awareness, and 4% is not nothing

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[BMfan80]

mostly to raise awareness, and 4% is not nothing

Okay, which is what I believe the conclusion is for.

I'm done, since I know it wont change.
If you had maybe said that the x8 is a negative I can understand, but how can something be a negative when there isn't a difference between PCI 5.0 x8 and x16 on this card.

 

[sLowEnd]

Performance is kinda disappointing for the price, but this card does have good power/noise attributes. OC potential seems good too.

 

[Bomby569]

Performance is kinda disappointing for the price, but this card does have good power/noise attributes. OC potential seems good too.

a triple cooler for a 5050ti, if it wouldn't give great power/noise, we'd be in serious trouble

 

[sLowEnd]

a triple cooler for a 5050ti, if it wouldn't give great power/noise, we'd be in serious trouble

tbf, the dual fan MSI Gaming card also does well in that regard. I fully expect to see cheaped out cards with crummier cooling later on (e.g. like the "EVO" cards Asus put out for the 4060 cards), but the launch models seem mostly solid.

 

[Bomby569]

tbf, the dual fan MSI Gaming card also does well in that regard. I fully expect to see cheaped out cards with crummier cooling later on (e.g. like the "EVO" cards Asus put out for the 4060 cards), but the launch models seem mostly solid.

i seriously think this gen is beyond salvation. This 60 class cards will be a tough sell even for the hardcore 60 class nvidia buyers
the 70 series from nvidia is a disaster in pricing or vram
the 70 series from amd is way north of msrp and it's also a tough sell, there tons of stock everywhere
the rest is for the oil daddys that have way too much money

at this point who cares what they do, i predict real disaster, especially with people having less money and less inclination to spend it in this economy

 

[W1zzard]

Okay, which is what I believe the conclusion is for.

I'm done, since I know it wont change.
If you had maybe said that the x8 is a negative I can understand, but how can something be a negative when there isn't a difference between PCI 5.0 x8 and x16 on this card.

changed to "PCI-Express 5.0 x8 interface (not x16), but generally not an issue"
better?

 

[Chrispy_]

I've just ordered an Asus Prime 5060Ti 16GB non-OC, it was MSRP.

What makes absolutely zero sense here is the price discrepancy between the Prime's standard variant and the OC edition:
(image below is from OCUK, simply because they're the first retailer I found that has the both the standard and OC edition listed for relative price comparison)

Crazier than that, I just paid £410 for the card on the left (ebuyer) and the only places with stock of the card on the right are listing for £510 and above. As far as I can tell they are identical hardware but one is clocked at 2607MHz, and the other at 2642MHz. 35MHz is margin of error, I'd bet one of my legs that every single non-faulty standard model can easily hit the 2642MHz of the "OC" model.

I'll have to check if the non-OC model I purchased has the same cooler and dual-BIOS feature, but it's not due until Thursday.

So far I have my hands on the Palit Infinity 3X and the MSI Ventus, both of which are underwhelming - the Palit is a well-behaved, quiet enough card but it feels cheap and flimsy. The MSI feels better built but it has a bad cooler design with the fins oriented lengthwise, yet blocked off at either end! Seemingly all the airflow from one of the fans has absolutely nowhere to go, so this Prime version doesn't have to be particularly good to be crowned the victor in my relatively small sample size so far...

 

[Chrispy_]

Okay, I can confirm that the cooler on the non-OC model I have is identical to W1zzard's teardown photos. I can easily overclock it myself for another 300MHz out of it, and I'm not even probing to see what the limit is.

Do not overpay anything for the OC model. That's 35MHz you're paying for and you can likely do 200MHz yourself for free even if you get an unlucky sample.

 

[N3utro]

Got the OC version for 490€ in France (20% vat/tax included). Bought it from someone who purchased it 455€ / MSRP at launch day from an Asus partner french online shop, couldn't get one myself.

The performance is insane. I have 180 fps on average on cyberpunk maxed out with path tracing at 1080p with dlss quality / mfg 4X and i dont feel any more noticeable input lag than when i previously played on my 4070, which averaged around 100 fps.

Sits around 58°C 40% fan speed when playing, cant hear the fans at all. When idle fan stop and gpu temp is 31°C.

Costs 30% less than the 4070 at launch, has more vram, almost double the performance, no real drawback... And some people still say the 5xxx serie is bad. I didn't even tried overclocking yet, all done at stock settings.

 

[Chrispy_]

Got the OC version for 490€ in France (20% vat/tax included). Bought it from someone who purchased it 455€ / MSRP at launch day from an Asus partner french online shop, couldn't get one myself.

The performance is insane. I have 180 fps on average on cyberpunk maxed out with path tracing at 1080p with dlss quality / mfg 4X and i dont feel any more noticeable input lag than when i previously played on my 4070, which averaged around 100 fps.

Sits around 58°C 40% fan speed when playing, cant hear the fans at all. When idle fan stop and gpu temp is 31°C.

Costs 30% less than the 4070 at launch, has more vram, almost double the performance, no real drawback... And some people still say the 5xxx serie is bad. I didn't even tried overclocking yet, all done at stock settings.

It overclocks pretty well too.

 

[N3utro]

Gameplay and performance on cyberpunk for this graphic card model if anyone is interested

 

[Rover4444]

Nice to see the Prime coolers are good, it's definitely the sexiest cooler on the two cards worth buying this gen from NVIDIA. I'll have to pass and pray PNY and Zotac cards come in stock though because I haven't seen a single ASUS card in stock in my area.

 

[Chrispy_]

Gameplay and performance on cyberpunk for this graphic card model if anyone is interested

I'm finding DLSS4 Transformer so good that you can actually run it at 1080p balanced on the 5060Ti and it still looks really good to me (as a DLSS hater before DLSS4 Transformer).

I'm not saying your settings are wrong because they're personal preference, but I find input lag far more bearable with a base framerate of >50fps. You seem to be running in the 35-40fps base framerate which felt too sluggish to me.

Path tracing in CP2077 looks awesome but I've decided to continue my Phantom Liberty playthrough on the other machine (9070XT, 1440p240) because raytraced reflections only is by far the most noticeable RT effect and the Radeon will do that at 120Hz realtime which makes the game feel so much nicer. I don't know what it is about CP2077's path tracing but the realtime shadowing and occlusion results in far too much shadow-crawl and "boiling" surfaces. It's a nice tech demo but I genuinely think I prefer the look of the game with old-school shadowmaps. Even if the lighting is less accurate and realistic, it's far less distracting.