A user on Reddit had a little surprise when he received the RTX 5060 Ti he had ordered from Canada Computers. In fact, the latter featured an AMD card fairing. A RADEON logo can be found on the edge, a surprising discovery to say the least, but one that can be explained by a certain inter-compatibility of elements between the brand’s different series.
It comes with an RTX 5060 Ti bearing the RADEON logo!
The wrong logo on the wrong card!
On receipt, the user unpacked his card and then, surprise, on the edge of the card he noticed a RADEON logo. However, the board is brand new, the printed circuit board is the same, as are the GPU and memory. Obviously, a detection test has been carried out to ensure the authenticity of his model.
Clearly, there seems to have been a mix-up on the card assembly lines, and the wrong fairing has been chosen for the assembly of this GeForce card. However, this is a mistake that can happen, as many parts are compatible with each other. For brands, it’s a strategy that helps reduce economies of scale. So, rather than designing and producing specific components for AMD and NVIDIA boards, we find a common batch with components adaptable to both series.
Not the first time this has happened:
This is not the first time this has happened, since last February an NVIDIA customer received an RTX 5080 equipped with an RTX 5090 backplate. Once again, a story of inter-compatibility between the two cards.
Apparently, it also happened with an RX 9060 XT bearing the GeForce RTX logo on the backplate, a news item we’ve been through.
