Gigabyte is apparently testing new methods to make its graphics cards as compact as possible. Andreas Schilling on X shared PCB shots of Gigabyte's latest RTX 5060 Ti Eagle sporting a very unusual PCB that is roughly half the size of a conventional dual-fan graphics card.
The PCB on the RTX 5060 Ti Eagle is about half the size of its predecessor, the RTX 4060 Ti Eagle. Gigabyte was able to achieve this by only using a physical PCIe x8 finger on the graphics card, rather than the full x16 finger found on other variants. Thankfully, this doesn't change PCIe bandwidth at all, since the RTX 5060 Ti (and the RTX 5060) can only take advantage of a PCIe x8 interface; all RTX 5060 Ti cards equipped with a full x16 finger are still limited to eight lanes of bandwidth.
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