NVIDIA could give its partners more freedom with its next GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPUS. The new intermediaries have been identified in the process of swinging both the old 12V-2 × 6 power connectors revised alongside a cut PCIe interface.
The people of Videocardz managed to get their hands on a pile of MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti photos which have four models, including a trio of games with triple white fan, a trio of triple trans games Inspire the design.
All models share a similar PCIe 5.0 x interface instead of the usual 16 tracks found on RTX 5070 and above. Although potentially limiting those which plan to upgrade an old PCIe 3.0 platform, this should not have a significant impact on performances on the Gen 4 and Gen 5 interfaces. As a reminder, the PCIE double bandwidth at each generation, which means that the PCIe 5.0 8x connection of RTX 5060 Ti offers a complete speed of PCIe 4.0 x16. But for that, you would need a new motherboard ready for generation 5.
Another change may be more interesting compared to its higher level brothers and sisters is the availability of two separate supply connector options. While RTX 5070 and UP are forced in the controversial header 12V-2 × 6, the partners seem to have the choice to select the 8-pin connector. Excellent news for those who still shake ATX 2.x PSU which are missing both the original 12VHPWR and the revised 12V-2 × 6 cables. This will also reassure people frightened by Fusion problemsEven if the risk is low thanks to the lower supply objectives of these cards.
Over the way, RTX 5060 Ti should take around 180 W, of which 150 W can be powered by the 8 pin, with the remaining 30W via the PCIE slit. Nvidia plans two variants, one with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory and another with only 8 GB. Performance must be identical in games that require less than 8 GB of VRAM, because the two share the GB206 GPU with 4,608 cuda cores.
Taking all of this is that if MSI is planning 8 -pin versions of its RTX 5060 Ti cards, Nvidia is surely aware and authorizes it. So you can expect to see similar options from other brands when approaching the launch.