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Title: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: iopq on June 25, 2011, 12:38:08 PM If I'm using a stock ATI 5750 with SDK 2.4 is it worth downgrading? I'm getting 132 Mhash/sec with m0mchil's miner, so I don't know if it's worth worrying about it or even if I get a better hashrate
also, where would I even get older versions? Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: iopq on June 25, 2011, 01:12:44 PM found the older version, downgraded and my performance did go up 4-6 mhash/sec!
Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: dinker on June 27, 2011, 07:11:45 PM so 3-5% that's not too shabby!
Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: FreeJAC on June 29, 2011, 12:44:27 AM I have tried a couple of times to downgrade this last time with a 5830 and both times I get no OpenCL device available. (not exact error)
I installed the latest 5830 driver, unchecking SDK 2.4 so that it doesn't install and then install 2.1. Is the trick to use an older driver as well? Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: FreeJAC on June 29, 2011, 12:48:41 AM Found my answer here, can't use GUI. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22845.0
Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: rograz on July 01, 2011, 10:38:50 AM I found away around the "no OpenCL device" problem by doing a full catalyst install first(including sdk 2.4) then running the uninstall manager and removing SDK 2.4, after that just install 2.1 without doing any reboots or anything and it's worked on all my rigs.
Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: CNMOH on July 01, 2011, 04:01:58 PM I've never seen any performance difference when using 2.1 instead of 2.4.
Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: hchc on July 01, 2011, 04:25:13 PM I just downgrade to 2.1 and went from 306 to 311 at 970/300 5830. Pretty happy about it.
Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: joulesbeef on July 06, 2011, 12:52:56 AM I just downgrade to 2.1 and went from 306 to 311 at 970/300 5830. Pretty happy about it. poclbm? or phatk? what cat driver? 10.4 or later Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: n4l3hp on July 07, 2011, 10:49:25 AM 4000 and 5000 series = SDK 2.1 and poclbm
5000 and 6000 series = SDK 2.4 and phatk CAT 10.4, 10.11, 11.4, 11.6 = less than 0.5MH difference in performance Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: iopq on July 12, 2011, 12:48:21 AM for future reference it's here:
http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/pages/AMDAPPSDKDownloadArchive.aspx Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: ffwd on July 15, 2011, 09:23:59 PM with overclocked 5550 im getting ~64M h/s on both 2.4 and 2.1 with latest poclbm
the difference is very very minor (within 0.2 Mh/s). Perhaps 2.1 more beneficial with HD 4k range cards, but i see no reason to use it with HD 5k-6k Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: JWU42 on July 22, 2011, 09:05:35 PM 2.1 is best with 57xx, 58xx, 5970 cards.
PhatK came out to try and improve 2.4 performance with these higher performance 5xxx series cards. My linux boxen with 5770, 5850, and 5970 run 4-5% higher with 2.1 versus 2.4 Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: Meatball on July 23, 2011, 02:33:23 AM Same here with all my testing on 5770's, 5830's & 5850's. SDK 2.1 gives me approximately 4-6% faster hash rates than anything newer. Have tried 11.5, 11.6 & 11.7 drivers and both Win 7 x32 & x64 with the same result.
I'm using Poclbm through guiminer for my mining. Title: Re: Downgrade to SDK 2.1? Post by: phelix on July 27, 2011, 08:03:07 AM Same here with all my testing on 5770's, 5830's & 5850's. SDK 2.1 gives me approximately 4-6% faster hash rates than anything newer. Have tried 11.5, 11.6 & 11.7 drivers and both Win 7 x32 & x64 with the same result. I'm using Poclbm through guiminer for my mining. what about the new modified phatk? that should even it out. |