HardwareLuxx’s teardown of Gigabyte’s Eagle OC GeForce RTX 5060 Ti reveals that it has a comically short PCB. It’s less than 10 centimeters long, shorter than most other RTX 5060 Ti variants from other manufacturers.
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The full dimensions of the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Eagle OC are 215 x 122 x 40 mm. Most manufacturers, including Gigabyte, have released their versions of the RTX 5060 Ti with full-size PCIe 5.0 x16 slots. However, it is known that the GB206 GPU only supports 8 PCIe lanes, so it does not actually need a full-size slot. Gigabyte took advantage of this and released very compact RTX 5060 Ti Eagle OC and Windforce models, equipped with a shortened PCIe 5.0 x8 slot. The physical dimensions of the Windforce version are even smaller – 208 x 120 x 40 mm.
Since these cards use very short PCBs, the manufacturer had to move the 8-pin connector for additional power to the front of the video card – it is located just behind the external video output panel.
According to VideoCardz, Gigabyte has reserved such short PCBs with shortened PCIe slots only for the dual-fan variants of the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060. For comparison, the recently introduced low-profile GeForce RTX 5060 OC Low Profile 8G, which is 182 mm long but has three fans, has a full-size physical PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, although it only uses 8 PCIe lanes for operation.