Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI BOX External Graphics, 16GB GDDR7, Thunderbolt 5, 100W PD, 3 x DP 2.1b, HDMI 2.1b, 2.5GbE

The Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI BOX is an external graphics box that adds an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB GDDR7 (Blackwell, DLSS 4) to a laptop or desktop through a single Thunderbolt 5 cable. It is aimed at ultrabook and workstation-laptop users who want desktop-class graphics for 1080p–1440p gaming, 3D rendering and local AI workloads at the desk, and full portability on the road.

The same cable charges the laptop with up to 100W Power Delivery and turns the box into a dock: three DisplayPort 2.1b and one HDMI 2.1b outputs (up to four displays, max 7680 × 4320), USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C and two Type-A ports, 2.5GbE Ethernet and a Thunderbolt 5 downstream port. Cooling is a WINDFORCE system with Hawk fans and semi-passive operation; the box can stand vertically on its magnetic stand or lie flat.

• 1 × AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI BOX (graphics card installed)
• 1 × box stand
• 1 × Thunderbolt 5 cable, 800 mm (USB Type-C)
• 1 × 330W power adapter and power cord
• 1 × installation guide

• One cable to the laptop delivers GPU, displays, USB, Ethernet and up to 100W charging — a single-cable desk setup.
• Connect monitors to the box's own DP/HDMI outputs for best performance, rather than routing the picture back to the laptop screen.
• 16GB VRAM gives room for larger textures and local AI models (e.g. LLM inference, Stable Diffusion) that 8GB cards struggle with.
• GIGABYTE's GPU Selector (Smart Deploy Multi-GPU) helps assign apps to the external or internal GPU.

• It will not work on USB-C ports without Thunderbolt/USB4 eGPU support, or on Windows 10.
• It is not a macOS eGPU solution.
• Gaming performance over Thunderbolt is below the same GPU in a desktop PCIe slot, especially on the laptop's own screen.
• The graphics card is integrated — this is not an empty enclosure for swapping in other GPUs.