Multiple NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti GPU pics are leaked, as well as a spec that's worrying some gamers

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As the apparent release of NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti comes close - it's rumored to arrive next week - we're catching leaks that are purportedly showing finished graphics cards.

Not only have we got a look at a bunch of MSI models of the RTX 5060 Ti, but also a graphics card from ASUS, all of which were reported by VideoCardz.

Apply your own seasoning at this point, but there are plenty of images and they look genuine enough, with the ASUS leak seemingly being direct from the company in the form of a teaser for the Hatsune Miku edition of the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB. (See the above post on X from Uniko's Hardware).

The images supposedly of MSI RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards comprise of the Inspire 2X, Gaming, and Gaming Trio models. The first of those uses an 8-pin power connector, but the others are 16-pin affairs.

What's causing some raised eyebrows here, though, is VideoCardz noticing that the GPUs support PCIe 5.0 x8, meaning only 8 lanes (rather than the full 16 lanes).

Stay in your lanes

Does that matter? Well, yes and no. The worry for the 8GB version of the RTX 5060 Ti, with its thin VRAM allocation that could run short, is that with only half the PCIe lanes available on an older motherboard, this may prove a problem.

In short, with PCIe 5.0 there's obviously not going to be an issue, and indeed with PCIe 4.0, even though it's a slower standard that's being cut in half (only 8 lanes, rather than the full 16), you should still be okay.

That said, some may argue otherwise, in certain scenarios - and when it comes to spikes of demand when a game gets really heavy going - but broadly speaking, things likely won't be too bad.

However, the RTX 5060 Ti train is going to come off the rails in an older PC with PCIe 3.0, as you're back at a much slower level of performance that's really going to hurt losing half the lanes (even at 1080p resolution).

True, there may not be that many gamers in this particular boat, but it's certainly something to be aware of. If you recall, there was a similar situation with the AMD RX 6500 XT, which was a widely panned graphics card for various reasons, including having PCIe 4.0 x4 bandwidth.

When this PCIe 4.0 graphics card was used in a PCIe 3.0 motherboard, in this case it was limited to 4 lanes, and that hampered performance considerably going by testing at the time (even at 1080p).