Card Layout and Photos
The PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan is a simple dual-fan card design with a black plastic fan shroud. They have blended both a glossy finish and a textured finish to give the card some styling with gloss sections in all four corners. There is also an infinity loop like shape that wraps around the two fans with a glossy finish as well. The card is 9.65 inches long which is relatively short for cards these days, but even still there is a big gap between the two fans. It is 4.72 inches tall which puts it slightly above the “standard” PCI height which you can see with the shroud sitting 15 mm above the top of the PCI bracket. It is a true dual-slot card leaving a little buffer even for airflow which is rare to see in any overclocked aftermarket card anymore but great for any compact or SFF builds.
The fan side of the PNY RTX 5060 Ti gives us a closer look at that infinity loop design that wraps around both of the fans on the fan shroud. We can also see that both of the fans are the same size and have the PNY branding on their center caps. Both fans sit in a 90 mm opening with a slightly teardrop shape but the fans themselves are a little smaller, closer to 85 mm. They have 9 blades and the fans don’t have any of the normal features we have been seeing the last few generations like an outer ring that helps direct the flow down and gives the fan blades more strength. There are also no ripples or any other tricks. In fact, the blades aren’t that aggressive with large gaps between each blade. They blow down into the aluminum heatsink below and with the right fan, it partially blows through and out the back of the card as well.
Up on the top edge of the card, a few things are going on of note. PNY has printed some branding along this edge in a bright white on the top edge of the fan shroud. They have the PNY logo and then the full GeForce RTX 5060 Ti model name as well. We used to see this on all cards, especially from EVGA but everyone has stopped putting the GPU model up here and I don’t know why. Especially with higher-end cards, I would much rather show off the GPU I am running than random branding. None of this is lit up with lighting, everything here is simple in black and white, literally. Also up on top, you have the power connection and that is where we see some changes from the last few Nvidia cards that have been in the office. For starters, the PNY RTX 5060 Ti uses a PCIe 8-pin power connection, not a 12VHPWR but the most interesting part is the connection is all the way on the PCI bracket end of the card. With so many cards having blow-through designs and shorter PCBs a lot of the power connections have been in the middle of the top of the card. I do miss them being down at the end but this is an interesting take and I’m a little torn on it. On one note, because it's at the end, it could be a little cleaner on wiring. But because a lot of cases plan for the plug to be at the middle or the end of the case you are more likely to have to have it run across awkwardly to reach this spot. It’s also packing more heat right above the GPU itself which is already hot.
Working our way around the top, bottom, and end of the PNY RTX 5060 Ti we get a better idea of how they are handling cooling. For starters, all three edges do have open areas beyond the edge of the fan shroud that wraps around. The heatsink is an aluminum fin design in a vertical orientation with air blowing down into the cooler and is directed up and down to out of the top and bottom edge except for the blow-through area on the end of the card. They have four heatpipes running the length of the card and looking back around on the left side to double up to help pull the heat from the GPU and memory area out to the secondary heatsink behind the right fan. You can see this especially well with the bottom view, there is a big gap between the two heatsinks where the heatpipes adjust up from being in direct contact up to the middle of the heatsink. The right fan's heatsink fits to the top and bottom of the card but isn’t the full thickness, leaving room for even more cooling there. The left heatsink at the top is recessed back to fit around the power connection. That power connection doesn’t have the clip flipped towards the PCB so they needed more space to account for that as well.
For display connections, the PNY RTX 5060 Ti has the “standard” layout with three DisplayPort and one HDMI port. The HDMI is down towards the bottom and is labeled to make it easy to find.
On the packaging, one of the main features PNY showed off was the card's metal backplate and while it is mostly standard these days it is an important part of the card to prevent sag. In this case, the backplate is a thick aluminum with a flat black finish on it. They have the RTX 5060 Ti model name across it in a bright white along with the PNY logo. I like it when cards have the model name featured, especially over having even more branding. Also printed on the backplate are all of the certification logos in a light grey and tucked in along the bottom edge near the end. Above that the backplate does have three openings cut into to allow the second fan to blow through partially. This design does still block a lot of the airflow but the card can still vent out the top and bottom in that area too so a completely open area isn’t needed.
