Graphics Cards Guide

Compare This

Gigabyte HD 5770 Super Overclock

16 Jun 2010

The Gigabyte HD 5770 Super Overclock is the second card in Gigabyte's Super Overclock line of extreme graphics card. It features specially picked chips that offer the best combination of performance and efficiency and also sports a customized cooler for maximum overclockability.

Tags: gigabyte, ati, radeon hd 5770, super overclock

Filter by Manufacturers

HWZ's Overall Rating: 8.5

Performance:

8.5

Features:

8.5

Value:

8.5

Faster than a reference card

Effective cooler

Not much faster than other factory overclocked cards

<div id="product-review" class="article">
			<h2 class="header-green">Radeon HD 5770 Roundup - ASUS vs. Gigabyte vs. HIS</h2>
		<span class="byline">Article by Kenny Yeo on Tuesday, 22 Jun 2010</span>
		<div class="share">
	<div
		id="addthis_div_51c1480cd525b" 
		class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style"
		addthis:url="http://www.hardwarezone.com/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his"		addthis:title="Radeon HD 5770 Roundup - ASUS vs. Gigabyte vs. HIS"	>
		<a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:count="false"></a>
		<a class="addthis_button_facebook"></a>
		<a class="addthis_button_twitter"></a>
		
		<a class="addthis_button_email"></a>
	</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
	window.addEvent ('domready', function ()
	{
 		//AddThis thing
		addthis_share = window.addthis_share || {};
		addthis_share.url_transforms = {
			add: {
				utm_source: 'addthis',
				utm_medium: 'referral',
				utm_campaign: 'addthis',
				utm_content: 'Radeon%2BHD%2B5770%2BRoundup%2B-%2BASUS%2Bvs.%2BGigabyte%2Bvs.%2BHIS'
			}
		}
		
		addthis_config = window.addthis_config || {};
		addthis_config.data_track_clickback = true;
		addthis_config.data_ga_property = 'UA-166763-1';
		//window.addthis && addthis.toolbox (".addthis_toolbox");
		 
	});
//]]>
</script>		<div class="content resizeable">
						<div id="page-1" class="page">
		 		<h2 class="page-title">Radeon HD 5770 Roundup - ASUS vs. Gigabyte vs. HIS</h2>
		 		<h3 class="page_title">Revisiting the Radeon HD&nbsp;5770</h3>
<p>The Radeon HD 5770 SKU is perhaps one of the least exciting amongst ATI's lineup of Evergreen graphics cards. Perhaps overshadowed by its more impressive Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 siblings, the Radeon HD 5770 does not provide the leap in performance we were expecting.</p>
<p>Powered by the Juniper XT chip, its stream processor count and GPU sub-function unit numbers are identical to the older Radeon HD 4870. This means 800 stream processors, 40 texture mapping units and 16 raster operating units. However, it makes do with a narrower 128-bit memory bus - the Radeon HD 4870's is 256-bit wide. To compensate, the Radeon HD 5770 has higher clock speeds than the Radeon HD 4870; it's 100MHz faster at the core (850MHz) and a full 1200MHz DDR quicker at the memory subsystem (4800MHz DDR). Despite these revisions, stock-to-stock, a reference Radeon HD 5770 is only about as quick as its older Radeon HD 4870 predecessor, and loses out slightly to the Radeon HD 4890. So the performance expectations are a little disappointing when one generally expects improvements with newer gear.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the new Juniper XT chip does bring about improvements such as support for DirectX 11, EyeFinity, and much lower operating temperatures and power draw. These are reasons enough for an upgrade for those who needed performance characteristics of the 4800 series but with the improved characteristics of the 5700 series.</p>
<p class="rtecenter"><img height="340" width="500" src="/files/images/intro_14.jpg" title="Clockwise from top left: Gigabyte HD 5770 Super Overclock, HIS HD 5770 IceQ 5 Turbo and ASUS EAH5770 CuCore." alt="" /></p>
<p>To further improve upon the Radeon HD 5770, vendors have been coming up with their own customized versions,  which gives the Radeon HD 5770 SKU much needed pizzazz. Earlier, we have reviewed two customized Radeon HD 5770 cards from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/product-guide/features/view/4228">MSI and PowerColor</a>, and today, we turn our attention to another three more contenders - ASUS, Gigabyte and HIS.</p>			</div>
		</div>
			<div class="pagination" >
		<span class="desc">Page 1 of 10</span>
		<ul>
			<li class="prevnext prev"><a href="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his" class="disabled">&lsaquo; Prev</a></li>
			<li class="skip">
				<form id="PageAddForm" method="post" action="/go"><fieldset style="display:none;"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="POST" /></fieldset>					<select name="data[Page][url]" class="page-selector" id="PageUrl">
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his" selected="selected">Radeon HD 5770 Roundup - ASUS vs. Gigabyte vs. HIS</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/introducing-cards-1">Introducing the Cards</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/test-setup-60">Test Setup</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/3dmark-vantage-results-10">3DMark Vantage Results</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/crysis-warhead-far-cry-2-results-10">Crysis Warhead &amp; Far Cry 2 Results</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/dawn-war-2-battlefield-bad-company-2-results-1">Dawn of War 2 &amp; Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/unigine-heaven-results-2">Unigine &quot;Heaven&quot; Results</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/stalker-call-pripyat-results-1">S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Results</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/temperature-power-consumption-overclocking-12">Temperature, Power Consumption &amp; Overclocking</option>
<option value="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/conclusion-69">Conclusion</option>
</select>					<input type="submit" class="submit" value="Go" />				</form>			</li>
			<li class="prevnext next"><a href="/feature-radeon-hd-5770-roundup-asus-vs-gigabyte-vs-his/introducing-cards-1" class="">Next &rsaquo;</a></li>
		</ul>
	</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
	window.addEvent ('domready', function ()
	{
 
		var container = document.getElement ('#product-review'),
			content = container && container.getElement ('.content'),
			pagination = container && container.getElement ('.pagination'),
			form = pagination && pagination.getElement ('form'),
			menu = form && form.getElement ('.page-selector'),
			links = {
				prev: pagination && pagination.getElement ('.prev a'),
				next: pagination && pagination.getElement ('.next a')
			},
			page = -1,
			desc = 'Page {curPage} of {lastPage}'
		;

// Tag as Javascript-enabled
		pagination.addClass ('js');

menu.addEvent ('change', function (e)
		{
			var curPage = this.selectedIndex + 1,
				lastPage = this.length,
				url = this.get ('value'),
				pageContent = container && container.getElement ('.page')
			;

// Disable controls
			menu.set ('disabled', 'disabled').blur ();
			if (pageContent) pageContent.setStyle ('opacity', .5);

new Request.HTML ({
				'url': url,
				'method': 'get',
				'link': 'cancel',
				'update': content,
				'onSuccess': function ()
				{
					// Update controls
					menu.erase ('disabled');
					links.prev
						.set ('href', menu.getChildren ('option')[(curPage > 1)? curPage - 2: curPage - 1].get ('value'))
						[(curPage > 1)? 'removeClass': 'addClass'] ('disabled')
					;
					links.next
						.set ('href', menu.getChildren ('option')[(curPage < lastPage)? curPage: curPage - 1].get ('value'))
						[(curPage < lastPage)? 'removeClass': 'addClass'] ('disabled')
					;
					pagination.getElement ('.desc').set ('text', desc.substitute ({ curPage: curPage, lastPage: lastPage}));

captureIntraLinks ();
					new Fx.Scroll (window).toElement (container);
				},
				'onFailure': function ()
				{
					// Restore controls
					menu.erase ('disabled');
					if (pageContent) pageContent.setStyle ('opacity', 1);
				}
			}).send ();
		});
		$$([links.prev, links.next]).addEvent ('click', function (e)
		{
			e.stop (); this.blur ();
			if (!this.hasClass ('disabled'))
				menu.set ('value', this.get ('href')).fireEvent ('change');
		});
		form.addEvent ('submit', function (e)
		{
			e.stop (); this.blur ();
			menu.fireEvent ('change');
		})

// Capture all intra-page links and hook to js
		function captureIntraLinks ()
		{
			content.getElements ('a[href^="#"]').flatten().each (function (link)
			{
				var target = link.get ('href').substr (6).trim ();
				if (target && target.match (/^\d+$/) && target <= menu.length)
					link.addEvent ('click', function (e)
					{
						e.stop (); this.blur ();
						menu.selectedIndex = target - 1;
						menu.fireEvent ('change');
					});
			});
		}
		captureIntraLinks ();

// Trigger initial pagination state
		var target = location.hash && location.hash.substr (6).trim ();
		if (target && target.match (/^\d+$/) && target <= menu.length && target != page)
		{
			menu.selectedIndex = target - 1;
			menu.fireEvent ('change');
		}
 
	});
//]]>
</script>
				<div class="footer">
		
<div class="tags" style="">
	<span class="label" style="">Tags:</span> <a href="/product-guide/all/reviews/tagged/100-gigabyte">gigabyte</a>, <a href="/product-guide/all/reviews/tagged/106-ati">ati</a>, <a href="/product-guide/all/reviews/tagged/345-asus">asus</a>, <a href="/product-guide/all/reviews/tagged/487-radeon-hd-5770">radeon hd 5770</a>, <a href="/product-guide/all/reviews/tagged/536-his">his</a></div>
		</div>
				</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
	window.addEvent ('domready', function ()
	{
 
		var section = $('tab-product-content-review'),
			dropdown = section.getElement ('#reviews-list'),
			tId = 0
		;

if (section && dropdown)
		{
			var list = dropdown.getElement ('ul'),
				links = list.getElements ('li a')
			;

dropdown.addClass ('js');
			list.set ('morph', { 'link': 'cancel' });

$$(dropdown, list).addEvents ({
				'mousemove': function ()
				{
					$clear (tId);
				},
				'mouseenter': function ()
				{
					list.set ('morph', {'duration': 'short'}).morph ({ 'opacity': 1 });
				},
				'mouseleave': function ()
				{
					tId = function () { list.set ('morph', {'duration': 'short'}).morph ({ 'opacity': 0}); }.delay (1000);
				}
			}).fireEvent ('mouseleave');

links.addEvent ('click', function (e)
			{
				e.stop ();
				//unescape the 'alt' prooperty
				var o = new Element('i', { 'html': this.get ('alt')});
				new Request.HTML ({
					'url': o.get('text') + '&as=ajax',
					'method': 'get',
					'link': 'cancel',
					'update': section.empty().grab(new Element('div')
						.addClass ('waiter')
						.grab (new Element ('span', {
							text: 'Please wait while we load your article ...'
						}))
					)
				}).send ();
			})

section.getElements ('.footer .comments a').addEvent ('click', function (e)
			{
				e.stop ();
				new Fx.Scroll (window).toElement ($('tab-product-details'));

var href = this.get ('href').match (/#.+$/), target = href && href[0];
				if (target)
					(function () { new Fx.Scroll (window).toElement ($(target.substr (1))); })
						.delay (3000);

$('tab-product-comments').getChildren ('a')[0].fireEvent ('click');
			})
		}
		if( $$('.image-caption-container').length < 1 )
		{	
			$$('.article .content img[title]').each (function (img)
			{
				// skip if title is empty
				if (!img.get ('title')) return;
			
				new Element ('span', {'class': 'image-caption-container'})
					.addClass (['left', 'right'].contains (img.get ('align'))? img.get ('align'): '')
					.set ('width', img.get ('width'))
					.replaces (img)
					.grab (img)
					.grab (new Element ('div', {
						'class': 'image-caption',
						'html': img.get ('title').trim ()
					}))
				;
				img.erase ('align');
			
				var link = img.getParents ('a');
				if (link) link.addClass ('captioned');
			});
		}
 
	});
//]]>
</script>

Graphics Cards Guide

Gigabyte HD 5770 Super Overclock

Filter by Manufacturers

You may also be interested in...