Packaging

The Card

Visually, the ASUS RTX 5060 Ti TUF OC follows the design theme of the company's previous TUF cards, and it also matches the RX 9070 TUF visuals exactly. On the back you get a high quality metal backplate with a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 13.5 cm, and it weighs 1131 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 62 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and one HDMI 2.1b.

Standard for all GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell cards is a new display engine that supports three DisplayPort 2.1b outputs, each capable of UHBR20; and one HDMI 2.1a. Both interfaces support DSC (display stream compression). With DSC enabled, a single DisplayPort on this card can drive 4K 12-bit HDR at 480 Hz; or 8K 12-bit HDR at up to 165 Hz. The RTX 5060 Ti features an updated media acceleration engine with support for 4:2:2 video formats, AV1 UHQ, and MV-HEVC. Unlike the bigger RTX 50 models, which have two, there is a single NVENC and NVDEC unit each.


The card uses a single 16-pin connector, which, theoretically, allows a maximum power draw of 600 W. The card's power limit is set to 180 W, with up to 234 W allowed with manual increases.


There's an RGB lighting zone on the backplate, near the TUF logo. The logo on the corner is not illuminated (unlike other TUF cards)


This BIOS switch lets you toggle between the default Performance BIOS and an optional "Quiet" BIOS.

Teardown

The fan assembly can be removed easily, which makes it easy to replace a broken fan in a couple of years—no need to touch the thermal paste of the card.


ASUS has installed five heatpipes on their thermal solution, the main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate protects the card against damage during installation and handling. Note the thermal pads, which provide cooling for the memory chips on the back side of the PCB.