Packaging

The Card

The MSI RTX 5060 Ti Gaming OC is a compact design with a clean color theme that's dominated by black and various shades of gray. Semi-transparent plastic envelops the fans, serving as an additional highlight. On the back you'll find a metal backplate with a large cutout and a shiny dragon logo.


Dimensions of the card are 25.0 x 13.5 cm, and it weighs 771 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 51 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1b and one HDMI 2.1b.

Standard for all GeForce RTX 50-series Blackwell cards is a new display engine that supports three DisplayPort 2.1b outputs, each capable of UHBR20; and one HDMI 2.1a. Both interfaces support DSC (display stream compression). With DSC enabled, a single DisplayPort on this card can drive 4K 12-bit HDR at 480 Hz; or 8K 12-bit HDR at up to 165 Hz. The RTX 5060 Ti features an updated media acceleration engine with support for 4:2:2 video formats, AV1 UHQ, and MV-HEVC. Unlike the bigger RTX 50 models, which have two, there is a single NVENC and NVDEC unit each.


The card uses a single 16-pin connector, which, theoretically, allows a maximum power draw of 600 W. The card's power limit is set to 180 W, with up to 220 W allowed with manual increases.


MSI has installed an RGB lighting zone near the fans of the card, and a second one on the logo near the back. The dragon is not illuminated, that's a reflection.

Teardown

While it is possible to remove the fan shroud, there are some cables that block switching out the shroud alone, you still have to remove the heatsink to get to those connectors.


The heatsink uses three heatpipes and provides cooling not only for the GPU, but also for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate protects against damage during installation and handling. Note the thermal pads, which provide cooling for the memory chips on the back side of the PCB.