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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: icculus on October 30, 2013, 08:41:14 PM

Title: Mining Specs on Radeon R9 290X
Post by: icculus on October 30, 2013, 08:41:14 PM

Has anyone tried out mining on the new Radeon GPUS (R9 290X)? I would be interested in any kind of specs on hash rate, voltage usage and cgminer/bfgminer configurations.

RADEON R9 290X (http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/r9/pages/amd-radeon-hd-r9-series.aspx#5)

GPU Architecture	28nm
PCE Express Version	3.0
AMD PowerTune Technology	Yes
GPU Clock Speed	Up to 1GHz
Memory Bandwidth	Up to 320 GB/s
Memory Amount	Up to 4GB GDDR5
Stream Processing Units	Up to 2816

Title: Re: Mining Specs on Radeon R9 290X
Post by: solareclipse64236 on October 30, 2013, 08:43:31 PM

definitely 500 megahash

4000 stream processors on the 7990 equals 1 gigahash

Title: Re: Mining Specs on Radeon R9 290X
Post by: Gabi on October 30, 2013, 08:50:27 PM

700 or so, but it depends a LOT on how it is cooled. These new cards work differently than others.

The reference card:

http://media.bestofmicro.com/2/I/405738/original/03-OpenCL-03-Bitmining.png