Just wanted to let you guys know how the story ended.

I sold the powercolor Cards because i dont really trusted the durability of the cheap model i had.

With the Asus best i achieved with the card was 29Mh/s at 120W core.

It turned out that this card is really bad for mining purposes. Memory is not going above 2000 Mhz and at least i could not manage to get the consumption below 120W.

So i also sold that one.

I switched now to Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+. Lets see What performance that one brings .

Thanks for the replies Guys

That's very good to know thank you 


A Professor of mine once sad: "Bad questions don't exist ... there are only bad answers."

Think about it  . But anyway thanks for your reply

Thanks for your input. I already got this feeling too just from the overall impression. Also the Powercolor claims to have the same temp with a lot lower fan speed. I don't really trust this Powercolor that much 

SO does that mean the memory vendor of the card can affect the mining performance ? Just judged by stats the ASUS memory should be better.

Hi everybody

I am relatively new to mining and currently trying to choose the graphic cards for the rig I am building.

I bought 2 cards:

Asus RX 580 Dual OC 8GB

https://www.amazon.com/Radeon-Dual-Fan-GDDR5-Graphics-DUAL-RX580-O8G/dp/B071L1VGQW/ref=sr_1_4?crid=A2JV0A1RB8H4&keywords=asus+rx+580+8gb&qid=1555061965&s=gateway&sprefix=asus+rx+580%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-4

PowerColor RED Dragon RX 580 8GB

https://www.amazon.com/PowerColor-580-DisplayPort-AXRX-8GBD5-3DHDV2/dp/B0711QH8ZS/ref=sr_1_2?crid=PMY9149Q3QAC&keywords=powercolor+rx+580+8gb+red+dragon&qid=1555062077&s=gateway&sprefix=powercolor+rx+580%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-2

Then I just installed hive OS and let both cards run with the claymore miner (ETH only). I did not make any configuration changes or optimization. I just plugged them in and let them run as they arrived.

The ASUS (which is significantly more expensive) performs ~24 Mh/s at 140 W.
The Powercolor performs ~27 Mh/s at 120 W.

My question is now: What does that mean ?

Is the Powercolor card generally better for mining purposes than the ASUS (because its already better on default) ?
Or is this just a matter of settings ?
Does the Hashrate only depend on the chip and its core clock or can the rest of the card also affect the mining performance ?
should it be possible to get the same hash rate out of every RX580 or can one RX580 just be better for mining than an other one ?
Can somebody share experiences with the both cards I just mentioned ?

Thank you in advance

Mario