Overall and Final Verdict
Finally getting a look at the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan as well as the RTX 5060 Ti as a whole has been interesting. PNY’s card design is very simple and to the point, but I don’t know that I would consider that to be a bad thing. Their design keeps things a little smaller and compact compared to a lot of the other aftermarket cards you come across. It doesn’t use huge oversized fans or a triple fan design. With that, it is small enough that I wouldn’t be worried about it fitting just about any build. They didn’t go crazy with the styling, it has a simple black plastic fan shroud with just a touch of styling. I like that they include the GPU model on the branding on the card as well, you don’t see that enough anymore. With that simple design, there isn’t any RGB lighting or anything else to drive the cost up. The card design does come with a full-length metal backplate with a blow-through cooling design. The only quirk on the card design is the location of the power connection, which btw is a PCIe power plug, it is tucked up at the PCI bracket end of the card. That location seemed to put a little extra heat up in that already hot area in our temperature testing. For overall temps, the card did run a little warmer, but that was because of a nonaggressive fan profile which could be adjusted slightly. With that fan profile, the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan was extremely quiet when doing noise testing under load so there is that tradeoff for the temps.
As far as performance goes there are two different mindsets to consider. When it came to 1080p and 1440p it had no trouble in any of our tests. The only issues come up when we start comparing it to previous models. Specifically the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 4070. When we include benchmarks that take advantage of super sampling the RTX 5060 Ti does extremely well with it having DLSS 4. But when we take those results out the RX 7700 and RTX 4070 both jump ahead of it in performance and the gap between it and the previous xx60 Ti the RTX 4060 Ti shrinks as well. With that in mind the RTX 5060 Ti and with it the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan depends a lot on how the pricing lands and it depends on if the games you are planning on playing will be able to take advantage of DLSS 4.
Above I put together a graph comparing Time Spy Extreme benchmark scores and both MSRP and current card pricing. Time Spy Extreme doesn’t take advantage of Super Sampling and doesn’t include any ray tracing. But it does give a level playing field outside of that. The RTX 5060 Ti has an MSRP of $429 with the 16GB VRAM that this card has. If we only had to worry about MSRPs the 5060 Ti would come in just below the RX 7700 XT and ahead of the RTX 4060 in price to performance. But because of the world we live in these days, going off of the cheapest price for each card on PCPartPicker the cheapest RTX 5060 Ti 16GB would be $480 dropping its score to price from 17.59 down to 15.72 but interestingly pushing it up higher in the value chart. The RX 7700 XT is still a better value, but the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4070 that are often compared with it are way down in the chart as their market prices are through the roof. Of course, all of this is most likely about to be shaken up with AMD’s 9060 XT hitting the market on the 5th.
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