Blockchain vs Adrenalin AMD drivers

[burundi]

Hello!

Which driver is the faster one for which card and which algo?

Some results would be fine:

Cardtype/Driver/Mineralgo/MHZ/Memshift y/n /Speed

BR,
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[cgchris99]

I've been waiting to hear this as well. Seems like some people say yes, install it. But I've seen a few posts now that say MSI afterburner doesn't work with the new Adrenalin driver and people are slower than using the blockchain.

[Onbusy]

My only experience is changing from Catalyst drivers to the Blockchain drivers, then going to the Adrenaline drivers.  Adrenaline drivers have 2 different workload modes, Graphics and Compute.  Running on the Adrenaline Graphics mode gives me a similar hashrate to the old Catalyst drivers, and running Adrenaline Compute mode gives me similar hashrate to the Blockchain drivers.

I do not maximize my setup for hashing though, so on dedicated rigs, there still might be an incentive to run the blockchain drivers.  I turn off my mining program, switch drivers to Graphics, and then play games and when I'm done I switch the drivers back to Compute and turn my miner back on.

MSI Afterburner worked for me with the Adrenaline drivers.

I run a single RX 480 GPU, mining Eth I get ~25 on the Compute, and ~15 on Graphics.

https://imgur.com/a/9ZIJd

If you're not gaming on your computer, I wouldn't update because I don't believe there's any gain over the blockchain drivers.  For me, the Adrenaline drivers are a good fit though.

[billhinge]

I tried today with a complete cleanout and new Vega Frontier Compute & Adrenalin drivers, Overdriventool doesn't work on latest compute drivers after clean install, nor does afterburner, hence 20-30% slower hashrate and higher power. Using the FE driver switch, the gaming drivers were slow (FE drivers allow user to switch between pro and 2 gaming drivers)

Perhaps if Overdriventool worked with latest Pro driver it would be interesting (throws exceptions)

Did another clearout and went back to blockchain as best overall power vs speed

This was using latest windows 10 updates and mobo chipset updates as suggested by Amd

Blockchain driver is still the best at least for monero

[leonix007]

been using blockchain drivers as long as there is no significant change in hashrates for my rigs I will not changed it. simple rules applied for me. If Ain't broke, don't fix it.

I'm fine with my existing setup.

[Lumining]

Can you give me the link to the adrenalin driver download? I'll test it out and report back.
Are these for Nvidia and AMD cards?
How do you change between the two modes of the adrenalin drivers?

[Onbusy]

AMD, just goto AMD's website and download the newest driver pack available on the website to get the Adrenaline drivers.  Open up Radeon Settings, click Gaming in the top left corner, click Global Settings, then change GPU Workload from Graphics to Compute, you can reference the link I posted a couple of posts back which is a screenshot.  Not sure why the MSI Afterburner works for me and not other people.

[Morgon]

If you're mining Eth, use Adrenalin.

If you're mining XMR, use the Blockchain drivers for Vega; Adrenalin if you're using Polaris (since you have the Compute switch).

[Coinerrr]

using blockchain Aug23 drivers here with AMD 570 Cards

I find that the new ones are too bloated with Wattman etc installed

plus there is an underlying issues with MSI Afterburner and using more than 3 Cards in a rig i think.

i now use Overdriventool, much better and works fine.

[P00P135]

I tried today with a complete cleanout and new Vega Frontier Compute & Adrenalin drivers, Overdriventool doesn't work on latest compute drivers after clean install, nor does afterburner, hence 20-30% slower hashrate and higher power. Using the FE driver switch, the gaming drivers were slow (FE drivers allow user to switch between pro and 2 gaming drivers)

Perhaps if Overdriventool worked with latest Pro driver it would be interesting (throws exceptions)

Did another clearout and went back to blockchain as best overall power vs speed

This was using latest windows 10 updates and mobo chipset updates as suggested by Amd

Blockchain driver is still the best at least for monero

Did you try this version of Ntool?

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/overdriventool-tool-for-amd-gpus.416116/

[Morgon]

I find that the new ones are too bloated with Wattman etc installed

i now use Overdriventool, much better and works fine.

You can always extract the bundle (using 7Zip or WinZip) and simply point Windows to the Packages\Drivers\Display folder when installing a new device, or do a Custom Install and unselect AMD Settings.

As you've already done, use OverdriveNTool for AMD cards.

[Lumining]

Are these drivers also safe to use with different GPU's in one rig?
I have 2 XFX 480 GTR and 4 Powercolor Red Dragon RX480. Currently overlcocking doesn't work well, the rig gets really unstable on the blockchain drivers when overclocking in the bat file or Wattmann or MSI.

[billhinge]

I tried today with a complete cleanout and new Vega Frontier Compute & Adrenalin drivers, Overdriventool doesn't work on latest compute drivers after clean install, nor does afterburner, hence 20-30% slower hashrate and higher power. Using the FE driver switch, the gaming drivers were slow (FE drivers allow user to switch between pro and 2 gaming drivers)

Perhaps if Overdriventool worked with latest Pro driver it would be interesting (throws exceptions)

Did another clearout and went back to blockchain as best overall power vs speed

This was using latest windows 10 updates and mobo chipset updates as suggested by Amd

Blockchain driver is still the best at least for monero

Did you try this version of Ntool?

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/overdriventool-tool-for-amd-gpus.416116/

yes 0.23 latest. There are special FE pro drivers from 19th Dec. I presume it isn't supported by tool devs yet  

anyway, managed to get 2xFE running on blockchain at over 4K+ H/s for 170w each so happy with that for time being