Power, Temperature, and Fan Performance
Power
The default TDP for the GeForce RTX 5060 is 145W. According to our testing, the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5060 GAMING OC 8G consumes exactly this, 145W, which meets the specification and does not go over it, so this is a reference TDP video card; even though it has a factory overclock, it doesn’t consume more power with it. The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5060 GAMING OC 8G consumes about 15% more power than the last generation GeForce RTX 4060 here, and overclocking increases power by 7%. By default, the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5060 GAMING OC 8G uses less power than the remaining three cards by a minimum of 11%.
Temperature
The above two graphs show that GIGABYTE has indeed done an excellent job with the heatsink design on the GeForce RTX 5060 GAMING OC 8G. Temperatures are just sneaking into the 60C range on both the GPU and memory. The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 8GOC Edition at default runs just one degree cooler while using 11% less power.
Fan Speed
This graph demonstrates the fan cycle for both default and overclocked cards. You can see the curve is essentially a carbon copy, separated by one degree Celsius. Eventually, the fans level off at 46% default and 48% overclocked. We could not hear any fan noise on the open bench.
