Introduction

Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti AMP 16 GB is the company’s fastest custom design of NVIDIA latest performance segment GPU, the RTX 5060 Ti. The AMP line of graphics cards from Zotac denotes the company’s highest factory overclock, and its most capable cooling solution for any given GPU. The RTX 5060 Ti AMP is positioned above the RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC, and comes with a more aesthetic-looking cooler to back the higher clock speeds. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti sits in the gray area between mid-range and performance segment, offering either maxed out gameplay at 1080p, or 1440p gaming with fairly high settings. Helping matters is its 16 GB memory for the variant we’re reviewing today. The company is also launching an 8 GB memory variant that’s firmly in the mid-range, given its pricing and capability. Both variants share otherwise identical specs.

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is powered by the GeForce Blackwell graphics architecture. Gaming GPUs from this generation are build on the same foundry node as the RTX 40-series Ada, and so the new architecture calls for not just generationally improved performance, but also new features. The first of these is Neural Rendering, a potentially-revolutionary concept of leveraging generative AI to create visual assets in real time. This relies on the GPU being able to accelerate AI models and render graphics in tandem, and this is made reliable with the introduction of a hardware scheduler NVIDIA calls the AI Management Processor (AMP, not to be confused with Zotac’s own AMP brand). The other big feature is DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation. DLSS 4 updates the AI models behind super resolution, ray reconstruction, and frame generation to be more accurate and vastly improve image quality at every performance preset; while Multi Frame Generation gives the GPU the ability to create up to 3 frames succeeding every conventionally-rendered frame using AI, effectively quadrupling frame rates.

The new Blackwell SM (streaming multiprocessor) comes with concurrent INT32+FP32 math capability on all CUDA cores in the SM, and its shader execution reordering engine comes with awareness of Neural Shaders. The new Tensor cores come with FP4 math capability for increased throughput. The new RT core comes with improved ray intersection performance, and preparation for Mega Geometry—the ability to give ray traced object more geometric detail by using hierarchical memory structures. The RTX 5060 Ti maxes out the GB206 silicon it’s based on, enabling all 36 SM present on the silicon, working out to 4,608 CUDA cores, 144 Tensor cores, 36 RT cores, 144 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The chip gets 32 MB of L2 cache, and a 128-bit wide GDDR7 memory interface, driving 16 GB of 28 Gbps memory for a 55% increase in memory bandwidth over the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB. The PCIe host interface has been updated to Gen 5, too.

The Zotac RTX 5060 Ti AMP 3rd generation of Zotac’s IceStorm cooling solution, and its most compact variant. It comes with a stubby 2.5-slot thick cooler with a dual-fan setup and a metal backplate. Zotac’s new BladeLink fans feature webbed impellers for maximum axial airflow. Zotac offers factory-overclocked speeds of 2632 over the 2467 MHz NVIDIA reference. Zotac is pricing the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB AMP at $500, a fairly high 17.5% premium over the NVIDIA baseline pricing.