july 21 2010 review by hardocp

This series has a boosted GPU frequency and an upgraded cooling solution. It has a 13% better performance than the reference card and is app. 4.3% faster than the GTX 260.

Conclusion:

This card isn't all that much better from a reference HD5770. It didn't live up to all of the guarantees that Gigabyte has claimed, but it ran slightly quieter and cooler than the reference card. The cooling solution couldn't take the extra heat when the reviewers tried to overclock it. There is an overclock, but there's nothing SUPER about it. Gigabyte also claims that the Gigabyte HD5770 SO is app. 4.3% faster than a GeForce GTX 260. The reviewers only found one case where it did actually perform at 9% better than a GeForce GTX 260, Splinter Cell: Conviction. in Aliens vs. Predator the results were worse.

Overclocking:

The GPU was OCed with OC Guru and the reviewers managed to achieve a 30MHz overclock on the GPU core and a 150MHz overclock on the GDR5 memory.

Benchmarks:

Splinter Cell: Conviction , Battlefield Bad company 2, Power Consumption, Metro 2033, Power Consumption, Temperatures, Furmark.

Compared to:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, ATI Radeon HD 5660.

Test Setup:

• Mainboard: ASUS Blitz Formula.
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650.
• Memory: 2X2GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-8000 Platinum.
• PSU: Corsair TX750W.
• HDD: WD 500GB.
• Monitor: Dell 3007WFP.