The Gigabyte HD 5770 Super Overclock provides us with “Ultra Durable” components, cherry-picked GPUs, higher GPU frequencies, and a new cooling solution. With all that, does it wipe the floor with a Radeon HD 5770? How about GBT’s claims comparing its card to the aging GTX 260? We put it to the test.

Gigabyte is familiar to most PC hardware enthusiasts. It was founded in 1986 by a team of eight electronics engineers. At first, they specialized only in motherboard design. In a few short years, it expanded its product lineup to include graphics cards, notebooks, communications equipment, network servers, computer chassis’, and plethora of PC components.

Today we are going to be taking a look at Gigabyte’s ultimate version of the Radeon HD 5770: the HD 5770 Super Overclock. This series offers the traditionally upgraded cooling solution and boosted GPU frequency. However it has two unique features which makes it standout from the crowd: high quality components and cherry picked GPUs.

Gigabyte makes some sweeping statements about this card. First that it is “13% better performance than sandard[sic] HD 5770.” And it states that the card is “4.3% better performance than sandard[sic] GTX 260.” We intend to hold Gigabyte’s feet to the fire and find out if these statements are accurate.

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