I believe the most powerful gamma ray bursts, the ones that are powerful enough to strip away our atmosphere at thousands of light years, are caused by superluminous supernovae (aka hypernovae) and weaker GRBs like the ones we usually see are caused by type 1c and 2b/n supernovae, although it is unclear whether they are different or closely related to hypernovae. The latter create long duration gamma ray bursts which last a lot longer than the usual burst and carry significantly more energy.