Among the graphics cards launched by NVIDIA’s partner brands is Gigabyte’s RTX 5060 Ti Eagle. The latter is particularly interesting for one reason: its PCB. Unlike some cards that feature elaborate circuitry with a long PCB, with the Eagle it’s quite the opposite: it’s ridiculously short!
RTX 5060 Ti Eagle: a 10 cm long PCB!
An RTX 5060 Ti has a small GPU, it doesn’t consume a lot of power, there aren’t many VRAM chips to solder and the card has a reduced PCIe interface with 8 lines.
For this reason, Gigabyte set out to design an ultra-compact PCB measuring just 10 cm. At the same time, given the components to be mounted on it, you don’t need much more than that, and you’ll find everything you need, including the GPU, memory and power supply stages. The PCIe connector is shortened as much as possible with an x8. As for the power socket, an 8-pin PCIe here, it’s located at the front of the card, behind the PCIe bracket. This positioning is not the most practical, as it means having a cable in full view of everyone!
As you can see, the rest of the card’s length is taken up by the heatsink, which is massive… Well, in terms of the PCB, because in the end the card is only 215 mm long. However, the cooling system uses a copper base to capture the heat from the memory and GPU. There are two aluminium fin blocks and two cooling fans. Finally, at the rear, we have a backplate with a massive opening representing at least 1/3 of the card’s length.
In short, with this model Gigabyte is offering us a card with an original design and dimensions that allow it to fit into ITX configurations, for example.
