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PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB OC
The PNY RTX 5060 Ti 16GB OC from Nvidia acts as our faux-reference card. It doesn't have reference GPU clocks, but there's almost always a modest amount of headroom available and most Nvidia graphics cards routinely run at 150~200 MHz above the rated boost clock. PNY's card has a default 2692 MHz boost clock, quite a bit higher than the Asus card's factory overclock despite being a seemingly 'lesser' GPU.
And by 'lesser' we're again referring to the extras and overall design. The PNY card comes with two fans, without integrated rims — basically the sort of fans we used to see several years ago (before the RTX 30-series debuted). There's no RGB lighting, no dual-VBIOS switch, and basically nothing extra. That's fine if you're after a basic card that works and hopefully comes priced as low as possible.
PNY uses a plastic shroud, and the card is a dual-slot model rather than 2.5-slots. Again, that should be totally fine for a 180W TGP GPU. It's a relatively lightweight at just 645g and measures 245x120x40 mm. The fans are 88mm in diameter, with nine blades each.
Like the Asus card, and most other modern consumer graphics cards, you get three DisplayPort 2.1b ports and a single HDMI 2.1b port. There's also an x16 physical PCIe connector, electrically wired for x8 lanes. Most RTX 5060 Ti cards also appear to be opting for a single 8-pin connector as well, though there will undoubtedly be a few models that decide to use a 16-pin connector.
While the Prime OC card may look somewhat barebones, it does have some upgrades in the overall design and aesthetics. The PNY card on the other hand is truly barebones. That doesn't mean it's a bad card, but in testing it did tend to run hotter and louder than the Asus — exactly what you'd expect from a dual-fan card with a basic design.
PNY does have a partial flow-through design for the back fan — partial because there's plenty of metal backplate that would impede the airflow. The 8-pin power connector is also located pretty close to the IO bracket, which is unusual and in our test PC made for a bit more of a stretch to connect the power cables — and would also generally make it harder to hide the cables if you're going for a clean build.
Ultimately, if you're only concerned with the out of box performance, PNY's card does fine. As you'll see in the benchmarks, which we'll get to momentarily, the higher boost clock does yield slightly higher performance overall compared to the Asus Prime.
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