ASUS has expanded its DUAL graphics card family with a smattering of lower-end models—based on NVIDIA's GB206 "Blackwell" GPU—that offer a slimmer profile. Brand-new listings, added in a low-key manner—are tagged with "EVO" designations. As highlighted by Vortez, the DUAL EVO design comes in at "2.1-slot" thickness (42 mm). This slight shrinkage—mostly in one dimension: width—distinguishes new entries from standard DUAL options. The latter examples exist as 2.5-slot thick (50 mm) offerings. There are negligible differences—between twin axial tech-fan cooled EVO and non-EVO SKUs—in terms of card length and height.
At a glance, ASUS has only introduced this slimmer shroud design across overclocked (OC) edition and non-overclocked GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and RTX 5060 8 GB models. Confusingly, this generation's EVO aesthetic actually debuted mid-way through 2025 , under the guise of vanilla DUAL GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card options— all truly 2.0-slot (40 mm) thick . This brand-new wave of cards has lead to an adjusted placement of single 8-pin power connectors—DUAL GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 EVO designs have this aspect positioned closer to their I/O brackets. The TechPowerUp readership can familiarize itself with a myriad of DUAL EVO and DUAL options present within the site's well-maintained GPU database . Fresh entries popped up before the publication of this news piece.