XFX Radeon HD 7770 Black Edition Overclocked 1GB Graphics Card Review

Moving the accessories to one side, we can start to look at the card and straight away you will notice that this looks like a slightly smaller version of the 7950 Black Edition that we looked at back in January. It features the same stylish metal design with dual transluscent fans and subtle XFX branding. It’s definitely one of the best looking coolers we’ve seen and from our experience, also does a fantastic job of keeping things cool and quiet.

As with a typical 7770 card, we find a single 6-pin PCI-Express connector on the end of the card.

Along the top of the card, we find an individual CrossFire connector towards the rear of the card to give the extra functionality when wanting to run two Radeon HD 7770 graphics cards together.

Finally taking a look at the rear I/O, we find two DVI connectors, a DisplayPort connector and HDMI. Also, XFX decided to spruce things up a bit by cutting their wording into the expansion plate to firstly look cool, and to secondly give some ventilation from the card, out to the rear of your chassis.

As this card is part of the GHz branding, we should expect at least a GPU clock speed of 1000MHz, but XFX not being content on losing out to the competition, they have boosted things slightly faster to 1095MHz. The memory has also been ramped up from 1125MHz to a respectable 1245MHz . The rest of the specifications are typical of what we’d expect from a Cape Verde based GPU.