GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review with ZOTAC GAMING RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC – SFF.Network Leave a comment

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The embargo is over for the RTX 5060 Ti, and I can lastly put up the outcomes of our evaluate. It’s been an fascinating launch for Nvidia as they’ve chosen to not pattern the 8GB fashions of the RTX 5060 Ti. This is probably going as a result of the truth that 8GB is just not a adequate quantity of reminiscence in 2025, and actually shouldn’t have been launched as a 60 sequence card. Regardless of the reasoning, right this moment we shall be wanting on the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB mannequin.

I wish to thank Zotac for sending us their Zotac Gaming RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC mannequin. Zotac has lengthy been a supporter of small type issue PCs and SFFN basically by offering us trade contacts, information, and evaluate samples. They have by no means requested us to edit or change any criticism, nor has Zotac positioned any strain on any SFFN workers for an anticipated evaluate. This is great habits from an organization, and an indicator that Zotac is on the lookout for a good evaluate.

Let’s be very clear earlier than we start: we’re wanting on the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti from a small type issue perspective. Small Form Factor customers settle for a variety of compromises to get their methods to their desired measurement, and we’re taking a look at this from a special angle than a conventional evaluate. We will, in fact, have recreation efficiency numbers for the cardboard, in addition to efficiency samples. However, our conclusion shall be centered extra on how the cardboard permits for small type issue builds than uncooked efficiency and worth.

As I mentioned in previous opinions: Small Form Factor customers aren’t proof against wanting a great worth. However, it’s onerous to take an ethical excessive floor on worth once we determined to pay thrice as a lot for instances that use one-quarter the steel, to accommodate elements which have half the perform at twice the value. What can we can we these spacing saving builds? Put them prominently on our desks to take up area, and complain about how loud they’re.

My personal private bias features a normal like of the Zotac esthetic, and I bought a Zotac Magnus EN1070 SFF PC for myself roughly half a decade in the past, that I reviewed favorably. I had a single help associated challenge with the EN1070, and it was resolved with a optimistic consequence.

That mentioned, let’s start.

The TLDR: The 5060TI is what the 4060TI most likely ought to have been from the outset. It’s 10 to twenty% sooner than the 4060TI, typically a bit extra. Pricing is diminished from an MSRP of $499 for the 16GB 4060Ti to $429 for the 16GB 5060Ti. While there’s a price diminished 8GB mannequin, I don’t suggest it for anybody contemplating this card. If you purchase an 8GB card now in 2025, it is going to trigger points in trendy video games comparatively quickly. Nvidia does have their reminiscence compression know-how, nonetheless it’s not an trade commonplace and as such, is topic to builders implementing it in addition to Nvidia persevering with to help it.

Unfortunately, I’ve had solely 3 work days to check our RTX 5060Ti. As such, this shall be a dwelling article with future updates being added. Notes shall be made on the high of the article for adjustments.

First, let’s talk about the brand new Twin Edge card vs the final Twin Edge that I examined; the Zotac GAMING RTX 4070 Super Twin Edge OC. This mannequin has improved considerably upon the efficiency of the final Twin Edge. I used to be skeptical at first because of the normal aesthetic of the cardboard, nevertheless it seems Zotac has made robust progress to enhancing each the thermal and sound profiles of their GPUs.

Size, Specs, and Dimensions 

Not solely is it cooler and quieter, it’s additionally smaller. The card has shrunk to 220.5mm in size from 234.1mm for the RTX 4070 Super Twin Edge, and 225.5mm from the RTX 4060Ti Twin Edge. The card has grown barely from 40.2mm thick to 41.6mm thick so watch your clearances. Unlike the older RTX 4060 Ti Twin Edge, there’s not a bulge within the center that takes up further area. The card is flat.

I check match the cardboard into two variations of the Densium 4 case. The first Densium was a technology one unit that match the cardboard by size, however the facet panel warped and touched one of many followers. The second Densium was the revised mannequin, and it had no fan points. I shall be check becoming this card into each a Ghost S1 and a Dan A4-SFX in a follow-up to this evaluate at a later date.

Users needs to be cautious of their facet panels to make sure they aren’t bowing inward.

Coil Whine

Our final Zotac card, the 4070 Super Twin Edge, had a notable coil whine. For the ZOTAC GAMING RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC our check unit for the RTX 5060Ti has remarkably little. While this will differ from setup to setup and card to card, it’s refreshing to get a pattern with so little.

To decide this, we first take a look at the fan velocity 40dBA noise normalized efficiency, after which add a load to the GPU. The distinction is the coil whine.

Below is our Coil Whine scale.

Coil Whine Scale

• Inaudible – Cannot be heard. The coil whine is both not current or too low to heard or measured in opposition to the noise produced by the followers.

• Barely Audible – Can barely be heard and requires shut inspection to find out if the whine is coming from the GPU itself. The noise is straight away drowned out by music or video games at even low volumes.

• Moderately Audible – Can be heard from a typical seating place and is clearly coming from the GPU. However, the sound is drowned out by gaming and music at regular listening volumes, and can’t be heard by means of closed again headphones when no sound is taking part in, whereas in a traditional sitting place. Steel Series Arctis Pro Wireless headphones have been used throughout testing. Most GPUs I’ve examined just lately are at this degree.

• Audible – Clearly coming from the GPU and clearly audible at seating place. Can be heard whereas listening to music or video games at regular volumes by means of audio system in a desktop place. Cannot be heard over music or video games at regular listening quantity whereas utilizing closed again headphones besides in silent moments. Can be quietly heard by means of closed again headphones when no sound is being performed.

• Very Audible – Audible at seating place and disturbing to video games or gaming in any respect volumes whereas utilizing audio system. Can be heard by means of closed again headphones whereas taking part in music and video games at even loud volumes. Would trigger most customers to return the GPU even when provides are restricted.

• Defective – Loud and clearly faulty part. Can drown out dialog, and make even loud gaming and music unattainable.

Based on the testing performed on the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC, present BARELY AUDIBLE coil whine on the above scale. This is a greater ranking that my very own private EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 achieved, and was far quieter than my AMD Radeon RX 6900XT Reference design. The Zotac RTX 4070 Super Twin Edge OC we beforehand examined rated as Audible. Other samples could differ.

Acoustic Performance

The acoustic efficiency of the Zotac GAMING RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC is superb. Under inventory circumstances, I recorded a barely audible rise from  the ambient of 34.9 dBA of my workplace to 36.7 dBA at 75mm distance on-axis to the followers. At 90 levels off-axis, I measured 36 dBA for a similar load.

Temperature at mounted RPMS 

The Zotac GAMING RTX 5060Ti Twin Edge OC cooling efficiency scaled properly from 30% fan velocity at 79.0C to 100% fan velocity at 53C. 75% seems to be the purpose of diminishing returns by way of extra efficiency per RPM. In the opposite path, under 40% RPM the cardboard begins to warmth quickly, however by no means exceeded thermal design limits.

Of course that is an open bench. Placing the cardboard inside a restrictive case will diminish the outcomes seen right here. In different phrases: GPU get hotter and fan go sooner.

Clock Speed and Temperatures

Given that the 5060Ti attracts often between 160 to 180 watts underneath load in comparison with the RTX 4070 Supers 220 to 230 watts, the cardboard being simpler to chill was a given. The efficiency was spectacular none the much less. At a noise normalized 40 dBA, the cardboard was capable of obtain a temperature of 62C at 1,921 RPM. The sound profile itself was clean, and didn’t endure the audible oscillations of the older 4070 Super Twin Edge. Core clocks have been a steady 2,775 MHz.

The Zotac Gaming RTX 5060Ti Twin Edge OC carried out admirably in our temperature vs core clock check. Unlike the RTX 4070 Super Twin Edge which had a 200 MHz deviation at inventory energy ranges, there was solely a forty five MHz distinction between 100% fan velocity, and 30% fan velocity at full load. Left to its personal gadgets, the cardboard settled in at 2,775 MHz.

Overclocking Potential

There seems to be good potential to overclock the Zotac Gaming RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC. The fan velocity was set to the noise normalized 40 dBA for this check. Achieving a +100 on the core was as simple as dialing it in. This was steady for 20 loops of 3DMARK Speedway. Temperatures didn’t rise greater than 2C in comparison with inventory with each +10 core energy and +100 MHz. While I used to be time restricted, I discovered the cardboard to be steady at +150 core and +500 reminiscence.

 

Undervolting 

 

Unfortunately, there was little proven throughout undervolting makes an attempt, and I imagine this to be a driver error with the evaluate drivers. Reducing the ability to 83% yielded 149 watts energy consumption vs 162 watts at inventory, and a 2,715 MHz core clock underneath load.

Performance

As we talked about above, the final consensus is that the 5060TI is about 10 to twenty p.c sooner than the RTX 4060Ti at 1080P and 1440P resolutions. However, this adjustments when reminiscence bandwidth turns into the limiting issue at excessive resolutions. The 5060 Ti has considerably extra reminiscence bandwidth than the 4060 Ti, and may use that bandwidth to open up some gaming alternatives at 4K resolutions. These shall be at console like body charges, nevertheless it’s higher to have the choice. This is much more pronounced in video games with ray tracing and enormous texture swimming pools that exceed 8GB, which may impact all resolutions. While the 4060Ti did supply a 16GB mannequin, the 8GB was the way more well-liked selection by customers, and the 16GB mannequin didn’t supply any further bandwidth.

Upgrading solely for efficiency from the RTX 4060 Ti to the RTX 5060 Ti is just not significantly advisable, however these SFF customers nonetheless utilizing the RTX 3060 or RTX 3060 Ti will see a pleasant enchancment in the identical energy envelope. Our goal benchmarks shall be added because the charts are accomplished, however we noticed substantial uplifts over the 8GB RTX 3060 Ti in lots of trendy situations. We shall be including our charts over the subsequent day as we refine them.

That mentioned, lets take a look at a couple of recreation examples of pushing the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB onerous.

Keep in thoughts that we recorded this movies utilizing the inner GeForce recording on the RTX 5060 Ti. This does impact efficiency by 5 to 10%.

 

Immortals of Aveum

 

In this instance, we’ve got a cinematic cut-scene that pushes the entire results of the UE5 engine. The decision was set to 4K, and DLSS mode was set to efficiency. I discovered the Image high quality to be excellent, particularly in case you’re taking part in from a lounge HTPC distance, and exceeded that of the PS5.

 

 

In this subsequent instance, we modified it to 1440P Resolution, and moved to DLSS Quality mode. This supplied a wonderful expertise taking part in the sport with properly above 60FPS efficiency. There are some notable stutters, however I imagine they’re linked to the check driver at the moment.

 

 

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk remains to be a bear to run for most individuals particularly for the Path Tracing mode. Let’s take a look at some gameplay examples. In these examples, I selected an space with numerous lighting, geometry, and picked a struggle with a number of factions. This is a tricky spot for any GPU.

Our first check is pure rasterization at 4K Ultra Settings. DLSS was set to efficiency. The recreation was capable of get a stable 50 to 60FPS on this situation, and once more seemed nice, particularly from a sofa gaming perspective.

 

 

Next we checked out 1440P Ultra Ray Tracing with DLSS Balanced. Again, we’re getting a stable 50 to 60 FPS. It seemed good, and was very playable to my eye.

 

 

What does it take to get Path Tracing operating on the RTX 5060 Ti? Well, this could be pushing it for this card. Resolution was set to 1080P with DLSS Balanced. It didn’t look unhealthy, and the YouTube compression makes it look worse than it’s, however I’d hesitate to play this on a desk monitor. This could be higher served at lounge couch-viewing distance to cover a number of the visible flaws.

 

 

For this subsequent instance, we are going to use Path Tracing and 1080P decision once more. However, we’re going to bump as much as DLSS Quality, and activate Frame Generation 2X. This will render one AI body for each actual body. It does trigger some visible distortions, nevertheless it was higher than anticipated once I recorded it. Again, finest served at livingroom couch-viewing distance.

 

 

The Ascent

 

The Ascent is a three-quarter perspective twin-stick shooter with some very spectacular graphics that embrace ray tracing. For our first instance we’ve got 4K with RT and DLSS Performance on. The recreation seems wonderful from each desk and couch-viewing distance. It performed very properly between 50 and 60 FPS.

 

 

For our subsequent instance of The Ascent we set the decision to 1440P with RT and DLSS Quality. The recreation performed extraordinarily properly, seemed nice, and was operating properly above 60 FPS.

 

 

We could have way more efficiency info over the upcoming days. The article shall be up to date with new efficiency charts and video hyperlinks as they grow to be out there.

 

Case Pairing

So what case do you have to pair the ZOTAC GAMING RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC with? There is an actual alternative to interrupt out a number of the basis instances to the trendy SFF group. Cases equivalent to a the Dan A4-SFX, unique NCASE M1,and Louqe Ghost S1 come to thoughts. The card would additionally work properly with the Thorzone Mjolnir, and the thermal efficiency would work properly for the Louqe Raw S1. Even the unique Silverstone SGO5 would work with this GPU. Unfortunately, the case my thoughts first went to, the Jonsbo T6, is 5mm too quick, nonetheless the Silverstone Sugo 16 would pair properly with it.

Personally, I lean towards the Sugo 16 so far as highly effective air-cooled instances. You may simply put any Ryzen AM5 CPU in it with a bigger air cooler, and the Twin Edge may draw contemporary air from the highest.

Alternatively, I like the concept of utilizing the Densium 4 Plus as offered by Overtek. It’s all the way down to the mm, and you might be restricted to 39mm CPU coolers with Flex-ATX PSUS, however that will be a really potent 5.49L construct; one thing I could experiment with later.

 

Image Credit: Overtek

 

Overall:

 

Do we suggest the ZOTAC GAMING RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge OC in case you’re on the lookout for a RTX 5060 Ti? Absolutely. Zotac has executed an important job with this card, and continues to enhance with every technology. I strongly encourage Zotac to contemplate a single fan SOLO mannequin for the RTX 5060 TI, and to proceed to push nearer to 200mm size for every upcoming revision. We additionally recognize the one 8-pin energy cable.

As for the RTX 5060 Ti itself, properly that’s one other story:

I want it had are available at $399 and even $349 for the 16GB mannequin. $429, whereas higher than the $499 of the 4060TI 16GB, remains to be a tough worth for the common client to swallow. We’ve seen a variety of worth creep and inflation. However, a 100% rise in worth since Pascal (GTX 1060) is extreme. There are market elements, however usually talking, costs in know-how have all the time moved downward. Now we’re seeing them stand up at staggering charges.

What the precise avenue worth shall be is anybody’s guess now.

It’s a tricky promote to 4060TI house owners who aren’t seeing VRAM limits of their video games. The new media engine is great for creators that may make the most of it, however the mere reality there’s an 8GB mannequin, which wasn’t sampled, is ridiculous in 2025.

Additionally, if avenue costs and tariffs put it deep into the $500 and even $600 vary, then the RX 9070 and RX 9070XT grow to be the plain selection.

However, from an SFF perspective, and with the loss of life of the 4070 sequence availability,  the RTX 5060Ti is probably going going to be the quickest card you will get for the Sub 6L instances. It does solely pull about 180 watts max when underneath full load, whereas additionally offering the perfect efficiency at that energy degree we’ve ever seen.

I’m assured that a number of single fan items will ultimately arrive in the marketplace, although I count on them to be hotter and nosier than the Zotac Twin Edge mannequin that are recommending.