Trying to make a list of the rx 480's hash rate power and settings etc.

[vg54dett]

thank you Phil , good to know.

[ldw-com]

Couldn't directly find the other thread about the pci power draw issue.

Anyhow, here's a fix for that.

Firstly: This fix is by no means an official one and you will be using it at your own risk. If you for any reason manage to fry your card while using it, you are not entitled to make any claims for warranty exchange (RMA).

As soon as the bios flashing software supporting Ellesmere becomes available, I'll be releasing a modified bios which makes the necessary changes automatically.

The procedure is rather simple, and can be done on any software which supports I2C control on Radeon graphics. Personally I recommend MSI Afterburner for the job.

- Download and install the newest MSI Afterburner
- Go to the installation folder of MSI Afterburner (where the MSIAfterburner.exe is located) and open a new command window ("Left Shift + Right Mouse Click" when no file is selected)
- Additional step: Verify that the I2C interface to the VRM controller is working by typing following command: "MSIAfterburner /ri06,08,0D" (without the quotes). If the response is ": 20" or ":44" you're good to go.
- The two commands you need to input are following: "MSIAfterburner /wi06,08,1E,BB" and "MSIAfterburner /wi06,08,1F,B0".

Once you have given these commands the power draw from the PCI-E slot has reduced and moved towards the PCI-E power connector. The recommended programming value is "B" (/wi06,08,1E,BB and /wi06,08,1F,B0), however you can go set it to anywhere between "B" and "F". Higher the value, more of the power draw will be directed to the PCI-E power connector.

Do note that this fix must be re-applied after every reboot.

EDIT: Added the I2C response for IR3567B controller (0x44).
IR3567A = 0x20.

The fix applies for both!

Shout out to The Stilt!

[hawkfish007]

Getting much better results at -15% power limit and 2250 MHz memory clock. 55.5 MH/s or 27.5 MH/s/GPU from 2 480s for 355 Watts at the wall. MB, CPU (G1840) etc. take about 45-50 watts, so basically 150-155 watt/GPU.

[philipma1957]

Getting much better results at -15% power limit and 2250 MHz memory clock. 55.5 MH/s or 27.5 MH/s/GPU from 2 480s for 355 Watts at the wall. MB, CPU (G1840) etc. take about 45-50 watts, so basically 150-155 watt/GPU.

looks like you are using gpu tweak  I am using watt man with my 2  sapphire 8gb cards

I will see if I can get to your level.  my watts are about 320 for the cards and 30 for the pc   my mh is 43.


but I never used wattman

  msiafterburner does not work 

sapphire trixx does not work

[hawkfish007]

Getting much better results at -15% power limit and 2250 MHz memory clock. 55.5 MH/s or 27.5 MH/s/GPU from 2 480s for 355 Watts at the wall. MB, CPU (G1840) etc. take about 45-50 watts, so basically 150-155 watt/GPU.

looks like you are using gpu tweak  I am using watt man with my 2  sapphire 8gb cards

I will see if I can get to your level.  my watts are about 320 for the cards and 30 for the pc   my mh is 43.


but I never used wattman

  msiafterburner does not work 

sapphire trixx does not work

I used ASUS Tweak to lower power limit and increase memory clock to 9000, then closed Tweak. Opened MSI AfterBurner and set memory clock to 2250 MHz and closed it. Saved settings in AfterBurner and checked apply at start up. Reboot computer, and run Mining software. I found that when running mining software opening AfterBurner sometimes freezes the mining software. It's best to apply settings when miner software is not running. Settings can be verified with Wattman or GPU-z. Results are similar to Nanos at stock settings at half the price

[philipma1957]

Getting much better results at -15% power limit and 2250 MHz memory clock. 55.5 MH/s or 27.5 MH/s/GPU from 2 480s for 355 Watts at the wall. MB, CPU (G1840) etc. take about 45-50 watts, so basically 150-155 watt/GPU.

looks like you are using gpu tweak  I am using watt man with my 2  sapphire 8gb cards

I will see if I can get to your level.  my watts are about 320 for the cards and 30 for the pc   my mh is 43.


but I never used wattman

  msiafterburner does not work 

sapphire trixx does not work

I used ASUS Tweak to lower power limit and increase memory clock to 9000, then closed Tweak. Opened MSI AfterBurner and set memory clock to 2250 MHz and closed it. Saved settings in AfterBurner and checked apply at start up. Reboot computer, and run Mining software. I found that when running mining software opening AfterBurner sometimes freezes the mining software. It's best to apply settings when miner software is not running. Settings can be verified with Wattman or GPU-z. Results are similar to Nanos at stock settings at half the price

I got watts way down  with an 84 setting on asus tweak  my watts now for everything are 320  which is a lot better  still stuck with 43-44 mh

but I am liking the 320 watts.

 this rig has 3 nanos without bios modes  cost was 1500   hash was 81 mh with 580 watts full system

it will soon have 4 480's no mods cost 900    hash will be 84     with  600 watts full system

[hawkfish007]

Getting much better results at -15% power limit and 2250 MHz memory clock. 55.5 MH/s or 27.5 MH/s/GPU from 2 480s for 355 Watts at the wall. MB, CPU (G1840) etc. take about 45-50 watts, so basically 150-155 watt/GPU.

looks like you are using gpu tweak  I am using watt man with my 2  sapphire 8gb cards

I will see if I can get to your level.  my watts are about 320 for the cards and 30 for the pc   my mh is 43.


but I never used wattman

  msiafterburner does not work 

sapphire trixx does not work

I used ASUS Tweak to lower power limit and increase memory clock to 9000, then closed Tweak. Opened MSI AfterBurner and set memory clock to 2250 MHz and closed it. Saved settings in AfterBurner and checked apply at start up. Reboot computer, and run Mining software. I found that when running mining software opening AfterBurner sometimes freezes the mining software. It's best to apply settings when miner software is not running. Settings can be verified with Wattman or GPU-z. Results are similar to Nanos at stock settings at half the price

I got watts way down  with an 84 setting on asus tweak  my watts now for everything are 320  which is a lot better  still stuck with 43-44 mh

but I am liking the 320 watts.

 this rig has 3 nanos without bios modes  cost was 1500   hash was 81 mh with 580 watts full system

it will soon have 4 480's no mods cost 900    hash will be 84     with  600 watts full system

It's getting better and better everyday. Good thing I was able to order 30 480s to send to Oregon mines for hosting. The last ones are scheduled for delivery this Friday from NJ but still waiting on USB risers I ordered from eBay. OM is already hosting my 5 5 card 390 rigs.

[philipma1957]

Getting much better results at -15% power limit and 2250 MHz memory clock. 55.5 MH/s or 27.5 MH/s/GPU from 2 480s for 355 Watts at the wall. MB, CPU (G1840) etc. take about 45-50 watts, so basically 150-155 watt/GPU.

looks like you are using gpu tweak  I am using watt man with my 2  sapphire 8gb cards

I will see if I can get to your level.  my watts are about 320 for the cards and 30 for the pc   my mh is 43.


but I never used wattman

  msiafterburner does not work 

sapphire trixx does not work

I used ASUS Tweak to lower power limit and increase memory clock to 9000, then closed Tweak. Opened MSI AfterBurner and set memory clock to 2250 MHz and closed it. Saved settings in AfterBurner and checked apply at start up. Reboot computer, and run Mining software. I found that when running mining software opening AfterBurner sometimes freezes the mining software. It's best to apply settings when miner software is not running. Settings can be verified with Wattman or GPU-z. Results are similar to Nanos at stock settings at half the price

I got watts way down  with an 84 setting on asus tweak  my watts now for everything are 320  which is a lot better  still stuck with 43-44 mh

but I am liking the 320 watts.

 this rig has 3 nanos without bios modes  cost was 1500   hash was 81 mh with 580 watts full system

it will soon have 4 480's no mods cost 900    hash will be 84     with  600 watts full system

It's getting better and better everyday. Good thing I was able to order 30 480s to send to Oregon mines for hosting. The last ones are scheduled for delivery this Friday from NJ but still waiting on USB risers I ordered from eBay. OM is already hosting my 5 5 card 390 rigs.

I know msi and sapphire trixx pretty well 

asus tweak and

wattman are new to me.. 

 I am still really jammed up with the kitchen rehab

but I will get down with these rx 480's  and soon be near 150 mh

  I hope at good numbers maybe 1000 watts.

[philipma1957]

First off i went pretty freaking crazy but I have a working hash rate at a pool.

claymore soft ware is giving me very good numbers. for 1 pair of sapphire 8gb rx 480's

so the 54mh is using only 350 watts  or about 310 for the cards and 40 for the rig

[hawkfish007]

136 MH/s at 887 Watts at the wall. 5 480s, H81 Pro BTC, Celeron G1840, 8 GB RAM, Win 10 pro Will try adding 6th card once FedEx delivers more GPUs.




Edit: Power Limit -15% with Asus TweakII, 2200 MHz memory clock with Wattman or Afterburner.

[philipma1957]

claymore with eth only is really good.

I change out the r9 rig and jumped from 52mh to 58 mh.

I now have 2 rx 480s in one rig

and two r9 390's in the second rig.


54mh the 480s   372 watts

58mh the 390's   496 watts

msi afterburner  allowed me to do 1 setting memory to 2200

watt man did the fans to 75%

asus did the power to 86 or minus 14%

54mh at 372 watts is very good.  I am sure I can do better once drivers are sorted by :

sapphire trixx
msi afterburner
wattman
asus gpu tweak

[jstefanop]

FYI you can down clock the GPU core to around 1160-1180mhz...the GPU waits on the memory controller after those speeds so no point running it full speed. Saves a few watts.

[hawkfish007]

My 6 480 GPU rig   Using same settings as before. 163 MH/s at 1082 watts at the wall. I wasn't able to lower power limit of 1 GPU, so overall wattage should come down a bit.




Edit: after applying -15% power limit to all 6 480s, at the wall reading went down to 1065 watts from 1082 watts. Individual GPU can be adjusted from Asus TweakII's drop down menu.

[philipma1957]

FYI you can down clock the GPU core to around 1160-1180mhz...the GPU waits on the memory controller after those speeds so no point running it full speed. Saves a few watts.

on claymore miner i jumped my hash rate from 50mh to 54 mh   by moving clock from 2000 (stock) to 2200

this is for the 480x  not the r9 390's

[jstefanop]

FYI you can down clock the GPU core to around 1160-1180mhz...the GPU waits on the memory controller after those speeds so no point running it full speed. Saves a few watts.

on claymore miner i jumped my hash rate from 50mh to 54 mh   by moving clock from 2000 (stock) to 2200

this is for the 480x  not the r9 390's

GPU clock not mem clock :p

[aarons6]

FX-8350 16gb 1866 DDR3 RAM windows 10 64bit
2x XFX RX 480. re-pasted with MX-4..

i get about 47-49MH/s
according to gpu-z its about 100W a card..

[philipma1957]

FYI you can down clock the GPU core to around 1160-1180mhz...the GPU waits on the memory controller after those speeds so no point running it full speed. Saves a few watts.

on claymore miner i jumped my hash rate from 50mh to 54 mh   by moving clock from 2000 (stock) to 2200

this is for the 480x  not the r9 390's

GPU clock not mem clock :p

duh!! missed that  thank you  will reset it later

[gollygosh]

http://icdn3.digitaltrends.com/image/url-d912a784332dda7dc9937e17775bcfca.png

[philipma1957]

i also see the 490 on the list   the 470   and the 460 in blue

[aarons6]

id be careful mining with these until new drivers come out.. there is something wrong with the fan control..
i set my pc to mine and i watched a movie on tv..

checking my computer i found one of my gpus was at 86c..
inspecting further.. the fan was at 1800 RPM on that gpu..

my other gpu was at 73c and that fan was at 3800 RPM.



so whatever is controlling the fans.. isnt working right..


running at 86c didnt seem to phase the gpu much, it was running right along at 1266 with 100% load


its like wattman was ignoring the fact i told my fans to hit 100% at 70c on that gpu..

edit, i rebooted my computer, and ran the NH miner and now its all back to normal with the fans blasting away..