Introduction

ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB is among the company’s more affordable custom design renditions of the RTX 5060 Ti, priced close to its $425 baseline price. The Prime brand of ASUS represents the company’s baseline design standard, and spans a variety of product lines from the company, including motherboards, graphics cards, coolers, and cases. The ASUS Prime series targets that segment of gamers who just want an affordable RTX 5060 Ti that they can install and get gaming, not bother too much about aesthetics. The ASUS Prime RTX 5060 Ti meets the NVIDIA SFF Ready standard that calls for graphics cards to be reasonably compact for some of the tighter mid-tower cases and SFF boxes. The card goes a step further, and offers an older 8-pin PCIe power connector, while most premium custom designs we’ve come across have moved on to 16-pin. There is an even cheaper non-OC version of the Prime RTX 5060 Ti that’s probably priced exactly at the NVIDIA MSRP.

The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is a performance-segment SKU that sits in the gray area between mid-range and performance. It’s recommended by NVIDIA for maxed out gameplay at 1080p, although the GPU is capable of 1440p with fairly high settings. With basic understanding of game settings, or utilizing the NVIDIA App to find the right settings, or even by tapping into the new DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, gamers can unlock unique new use cases for the RTX 5060 Ti, such as 1440p and 1080p with high refresh-rate.

The RTX 5060 Ti, like the rest of the RTX 50-series, is powered by the GeForce Blackwell graphics architecture. NVIDIA is building these GPUs on the same exact NVIDIA 4N foundry node as the previous RTX 40-series Ada generation, and so besides generational performance increases, NVIDIA introduced a couple of exclusive features to look forward to. The first of these is Neural Rendering, or the concept of combining game assets created by a generative AI model with conventional raster 3D graphics. NVIDIA even worked with Microsoft to standardize this at the API-level. Next up is DLSS 4, which sees the introduction of new Transformer-based AI models to drive super resolution, ray reconstruction, and frame generation; greatly improving image quality at every performance preset. DLSS 4 is also being extended to the RTX 40-series and RTX 30-series, depending on their hardware capabilities. What’s exclusive to Blackwell, though, is Multi Frame Generation, or the ability for the GPU to create up to 3 frames succeeding every conventionally rendered frame, entirely using AI, effectively quadrupling frame rates.

The new Blackwell SM comes with concurrent INT32+FP32 execution capability on all CUDA cores in the SM, and not just half of them, as was the case with Ada. The shader execution reordering engine comes with awareness for Neural Shaders. The new 5th Gen Tensor core comes with FP4 data format support, for even higher throughput. The new 4th Gen RT core comes with more ray intersection performance, and newer fixed-function hardware that enables Mega Geometry, or the ability to give ray traced objects higher poly counts by leveraging hierarchical memory structures, just like with Mega Textures.

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti introduces the new GB206 silicon, which it maxes out, enabling all 36 SM present on the silicon, which works out to 4,608 CUDA cores, 144 Tensor cores, 36 RT cores, 144 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The memory interface is still 128-bit wide, both for the 8 GB and 16 GB variants, but NVIDIA switched over to the newer GDDR7 memory, with increased speeds of 28 Gbps (GDDR7-effective), working out to a 55% generational increase in memory bandwidth. The host interface has been updated to PCI-Express 5.0 x8, too.

The ASUS Prime RTX 5060 Ti OC 16 GB comes with a simple 2-slot cooling solution that uses an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that’s ventilated by a trio of 70 mm axial airflow fans. There’s no fancy RGB LED lighting, but you get a slick metal backplate. As we mentioned earlier, the card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, which should be plenty given the 180 W TGP—the exact same TGP as the RTX 4070. The card offers a minor factory OC of 2617 MHz compared to 2572 MHz reference. ASUS is expected to price this card at around $530.