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The Gigabyte RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Aorus Elite ships in a dark box with the Aorus logo dominating the front. On the back, Gigabyte highlights a few key features of the card and cooler.
Inside, we find an adhesive sticker, quick-start guide and warranty note.
As for the graphics card itself, the Aorus Elite is a fairly conventional-looking, slightly blocky card, utilising a black plastic shroud that sports some textured sections to add visual interest. We can also note the small reflective area just next to the I/O bracket, again just to keep things from looking overly plain.
It's rocking a triple-fan setup too, part of Gigabyte's Windforce cooling system, with each fan measuring 100mm. As we've come to expect, the central fan spins in reverse, relative to the outer two, which is designed to reduce turbulence.
In terms of its dimensions, it's only a dual-slot thickness, but at 329mm long and 128mm tall, it's still quite sizeable, so it may not be an ideal solution for your next ITX build – but I'd expect it to fit in most cases these days.
The front side is home to the GeForce RTX and Aorus logos, the latter of which acts as one of the card's RGB zones.
Gigabyte has fitted a full length metal backplate, using both grey and black sections, with another Aorus logo acting as an RGB zone. We can also note the ginormous flow-through area, allowing air to pass directly through the heatsink.
A dual-BIOS switch is also present, offering a choice of the Performance or Silent modes, with the latter having a more relaxed fan curve.
Above we can see the RGB lighting in action, controllable via Gigabyte's Control Center software.
Power is supplied by a single 8-pin connector – no 12VHPWR here. Display outputs consist of 3x DisplayPort 2.1 and 1x HDMI 2.1.
