HIS 7770 iCooler Pro Reviews

AMD's new Radeon HD 7770 delivers a substantial improvement over the previous generation HD 5770. The HD 6770 was just a HD 5770 with a "6770" sticker slapped on it, so the upgrade has been overdue. Averaged over all our testing we see more than 20% higher performance from the reference clocked HD 7770 vs. the HD 5770. This puts the HD 7770 on the same performance level as NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460, or a bit below the HD 6850. The HIS HD 7770 iCooler is really just a reference card, running the same clock speeds, using the same PCB, which is colored blue though. As a result the card's performance is exactly the same as the AMD reference design. The only difference I could spot is that HIS has replaced the plastic cooler shell with their own, and they installed a different fan. In our testing we see excellent noise results from the HIS HD 7770 iCooler, making it whisper quiet in idle and barely audible under load - a great improvement over the reference design. This actually makes it the quietest HD 7770 card we have tested so far. Good job HIS!

The graphics performance of the HIS HD 7770 iCooler is good enough for playing most games at 1920x1080 resolution with lower settings but there are obviously some games that will struggle, then again this card isn't aimed at the high end price bracket. It does however deliver fair price to performance out of the box, and then some more when you overclock it. The HIS HD 7770 iCooler sits nicely between the GTX 550-Ti and HD6850 and does so at a lower temperature and requiring much less power. The appearance rating of the HIS HD 7770 iCooler is up for debate. There is not a lot I can say about a discrete graphics card that will get installed and then be out of sight, other than that it is quite plain. When we consider looking up close at the PCB cleanliness and the soldering quality then it does deserve a high rating. There are some that will surely disagree but thanks to the graphic nature of this review you can easily make your mind up for yourself.