Hashrate RX 470

[Truthchanter]

My best result so far

ETH only

Sapphire Nitro RX470 4GB x 6

Each Card 25.4MH

Whole Rig 152MH

Power Draw is 640W on the wall

Running for weeks

What clocks and voltages?

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[Densitymax]

I would like to know comparison at various algorithms such as Lbry, Decred, blake2b(Sia) and CryptoNight for such cards in default mode:
 - RX 480 with 8gb/4gb;
 - RX 470 with 8gb/4gb;
 - RX 460 with 4gb/2gb;
Please, if someone has information about this, share this link or share your observations.

[nerdralph]

Does anyone using Rx470 strix cards? I need some help to get lower power comsuption on my rig. I have 5 Asus Strix rx470 4gb cards and when I tested every single card, every card worked fine with settings: 1100/1850 and -40mV (26 mhs). But when I put all 5 gpus in rig and start mining cards demand valtage at least + 54mV. Gpus temperatures are also high because of this problem. I using 1500 memory straps and MSI AB for overclocking. If anyone have Idea how to decrease power comsuption on my Asus gpus please let me know.

The Asus cards use a custom VRM chip, which I've posted about earlier in this thread.  The only work-around I've found is reducing VDDCI along with VDDC.
I'm using the 1425Mhz strap at 1030/1875 and get a bit over 26Mh/s.

[Redrose]

Thank you very much mate ! You changed my life ! For now, I'm at 30 MH/s at 110W. Do you have an Elpida memory or an Hynix one ?

If I remember correctly, you swore by the GTX 1070's a little while ago, does that make you a convert? Do you BELIEVE now?

Yeah, that's exact. What made me change is that I needed to replace my R9 380s, so I took RX 470 since they were really cheaper, and I like them now . I still like Nvidia, but you need high investments at the beggining. Also, I've found that for the price of a 1070, you can have barely two RX 470s. The fact that I can get cards more often seduces me. However, I think I'll soon take a new 1070, to don't put all the eggs in one basket, because problem of AMD cards is that except Ethereum, you have nothing to mine, while with Nvidia, you'll always have something to mine for higher than the price bill.

[talks_cheep]

Thank you very much mate ! You changed my life ! For now, I'm at 30 MH/s at 110W. Do you have an Elpida memory or an Hynix one ?

If I remember correctly, you swore by the GTX 1070's a little while ago, does that make you a convert? Do you BELIEVE now?

Yeah, that's exact. What made me change is that I needed to replace my R9 380s, so I took RX 470 since they were really cheaper, and I like them now . I still like Nvidia, but you need high investments at the beggining. Also, I've found that for the price of a 1070, you can have barely two RX 470s. The fact that I can get cards more often seduces me. However, I think I'll soon take a new 1070, to don't put all the eggs in one basket, because problem of AMD cards is that except Ethereum, you have nothing to mine, while with Nvidia, you'll always have something to mine for higher than the price bill.

Nvidia FTW!

[AriesIV10]

Equipment:

6 MSI RX 470X GPUs........................................................................$ 199.99 (20.5mh out of the box)
2 Antec 750 Platinum PSUs..............................................................$ 130.00 (you can find some good deals on these)
1 Motherboard = MSI Z97 Gaming 5 (LGA 1150)..............................$  97.00 (found in returns-normally $150, has 7 PCIE slots)
1 Micron M600 128GB Sata III M.2 SSD...........................................$  32.00
1 Ballistic 8GB Kit (2 4GB) DDR3 1600 RAM....................................$  32.99 (discounted when buy with motherboard)
1 Intel Celeron G1840 Processor (2.8GB, 2MB Cache LGA1150)....$  34.99
1 Windows 10............................................................................. ......$  25.00 (bought on Amazon)
1 Super Multi DVD Writer..................................................................$14.99
2 3/8 Aluminum Plywood Trim (Lowes)............................................$  8.98
2 1/4 Aluminum Plywood Trim (Lowes)............................................$  5.98
1 fit Headless, Headless HDMI adapter............................................$ 15.00
1 1/16in x 1/2in x 3ft Angle...............................................................$  2.18
32 #8 x 3/8in Screws........................................................................$  2.00
                                                                                                      = $1643.07
System Overview:

-6 MSI Radion RX 470 Gaming X
-MSI RX 470 gpu01 80.5% Hynix
-MSI RX 470 gpu02 79.8% Hynix
-MSI RX 470 gpu03 73.1% Hynix
-MSI RX 470 gpu04 65.0% Hynix
-MSI RX 470 gpu05 64.9% Hynix
-MSI RX 470 gpu06 73.7% Hynix
-strapped,
-total system hashing  = 169.6mh
-each gpu hashing  = 28.3mh
-ave card wattage = 67W
-total system Watts = 831W (At the Wall)
-total system Amps = 6.91A (At the Wall)
Efficiency per Card = W/Mhs = 67/28.3 =2.37 (Less is better)
Efficiency per system = W/Mhs = 831/169.6 = 4.90 (Less is better)

[Redrose]

I think the reason why you are hashing so well over is because you have Hynix memory ! Mine, non Hynix (Elpida, right ?), are hashing at 28,6 MH/s for 95W.

[Zitudent]

I think the reason why you are hashing so well over is because you have Hynix memory ! Mine, non Hynix (Elpida, right ?), are hashing at 28,6 MH/s for 95W.

Maybe you can reduce the voltage further to save some more power consumption. Some people do that.

[mewhoyou]

Thank you very much mate ! You changed my life ! For now, I'm at 30 MH/s at 110W. Do you have an Elpida memory or an Hynix one ?

If I remember correctly, you swore by the GTX 1070's a little while ago, does that make you a convert? Do you BELIEVE now?

Rubbing salt on wound??

[Redrose]

I think the reason why you are hashing so well over is because you have Hynix memory ! Mine, non Hynix (Elpida, right ?), are hashing at 28,6 MH/s for 95W.

Maybe you can reduce the voltage further to save some more power consumption. Some people do that.

The voltage is the thing that is counted in mV, right ? I've not yet touched to this parameter, by fear of doing some big mistake.

[h311m4n]

I think the reason why you are hashing so well over is because you have Hynix memory ! Mine, non Hynix (Elpida, right ?), are hashing at 28,6 MH/s for 95W.

Maybe you can reduce the voltage further to save some more power consumption. Some people do that.

The voltage is the thing that is counted in mV, right ? I've not yet touched to this parameter, by fear of doing some big mistake.

mV are millivolts, 1V = 1000mV.

Honestly the worst thing that can happen if you go too low is your card won't boot, hence why I only buy cards with dual bios. Leaves a lot more room to play around

My 4x RX470 8Gb (Sapphire) rig hashes at 114Mh/s (28.5-6/per card), 530W at the wall. Each card is around 115-120W. I've done it the proper way though by setting a mV offset directly in the bios using a hex editor rather than playing around with polaris. It's been ultra stable for 2 weeks.

[Redrose]

I think the reason why you are hashing so well over is because you have Hynix memory ! Mine, non Hynix (Elpida, right ?), are hashing at 28,6 MH/s for 95W.

Maybe you can reduce the voltage further to save some more power consumption. Some people do that.

The voltage is the thing that is counted in mV, right ? I've not yet touched to this parameter, by fear of doing some big mistake.

mV are millivolts, 1V = 1000mV.

Honestly the worst thing that can happen if you go too low is your card won't boot, hence why I only buy cards with dual bios. Leaves a lot more room to play around

My 4x RX470 8Gb (Sapphire) rig hashes at 114Mh/s (28.5-6/per card), 530W at the wall. Each card is around 115-120W. I've done it the proper way though by setting a mV offset directly in the bios using a hex editor rather than playing around with polaris. It's been ultra stable for 2 weeks.

So finally my setup is better than someone's else one . Currently, I'm at 28,6 MH/s for 95W. Did you only played with the mV or did you changed something else ? I'll try to reduce again my consumption by removing a few mV.

[Densitymax]

AriesIV10 , Please tell me, did you do something with BIOS on your card, or they work in defaul mode?

[adaseb]

I bought a few more of these RX cards and since I exceed more than 4 GPUs in Windows 7, I had to use that 7GPU Mod Registry hack, however it doesn't seem to work with the newest drivers 16.9.2

It worked perfectly fine running 6 - R9 280X on version 15.7.

The cards are recognized in Windows Drivers however, I can't get more than 5 GPUs to run in one system. Whats everyone been doing?

Install Win 10.

I was stuck at 5 cards, last one was Code 43

EDIT: with 16.9.2 and the last one 16.10.x

Yeah I had no choice but to install Windows 10. Pain in the ass really since the CPU is a Sempron 145. Would of done Ubuntu but since there is no Wattman/Watttol would have to flash to undervolt.

[deadsix]

Rubbing salt on wound??

Hehe I never miss a chance

So finally my setup is better than someone's else one . Currently, I'm at 28,6 MH/s for 95W. Did you only played with the mV or did you changed something else ? I'll try to reduce again my consumption by removing a few mV.

Umm, im not sure, the 95W that you see in GPUZ or some other SW monitor is just the PCIe consumption. Add another 45W atleast that the card would consume through the 6 pin power plug.
So the 67W listed above is more like 67+40=112W. Yours would be around 135W. What h331m4n quoted looks like the actual power draw at the wall at 115W, which includes GPU 6 pin power draw, and PSU inefficiencies. No worries though, some simple settings tweaks using even the bundled Wattman would get you under 120W per card.

[mewhoyou]

Here are some info correlate PSU and GPU. Based on rx470

550w Bronze - 2 GPU
650w Bronze - 3 GPU
650w Gold - 4 GPU
850w Gold - 5 GPU
1000w Gold - 6 GPU

anyone else have other setup able to achieve more? these are my current setup.

[deadsix]

Here are some info correlate PSU and GPU. Based on rx470

550w Bronze - 2 GPU
650w Bronze - 3 GPU
650w Gold - 4 GPU
850w Gold - 5 GPU
1000w Gold - 6 GPU

anyone else have other setup able to achieve more? these are my current setup.

750W Gold running 5 cards
600W Bronze running 4 cards

[geniusboy91]

To start tweaking the card with watttool i just put the card in system and then run the program in windows, nothing else?
Or is there some other steps like, i need to flash vbios first?
I would appreciate a little step-by-step tutorial just to be sure Wink
I just haven't done this before, only tweaked in msi afterburner which doesnt let you tweak that much. voltage control locked etc.

[mewhoyou]

Here are some info correlate PSU and GPU. Based on rx470

550w Bronze - 2 GPU
650w Bronze - 3 GPU
650w Gold - 4 GPU
850w Gold - 5 GPU
1000w Gold - 6 GPU

anyone else have other setup able to achieve more? these are my current setup.

750W Gold running 5 cards
600W Bronze running 4 cards

600W Bronze running 4 cards? I can only run 3 cards. The system will boot on the 4th but when heavy hashing then the PC will hang. 750W Gold with 5 cards? Interesting...

[Bakery]

To start tweaking the card with watttool i just put the card in system and then run the program in windows, nothing else?
Or is there some other steps like, i need to flash vbios first?
I would appreciate a little step-by-step tutorial just to be sure Wink
I just haven't done this before, only tweaked in msi afterburner which doesnt let you tweak that much. voltage control locked etc.

For wattool there is no problem. You dont need to flash anything.
But to change the memory straps(and get higher hashrate) you need to save the cards bios with atiflash, open the rom file with polaris bios editor. And change the straps. Save the bios file(save as new file, keep the original you saved at first) and then flash with atiflash, reboot.
Which card you have exactly?

600W Bronze running 4 cards? I can only run 3 cards. The system will boot on the 4th but when heavy hashing then the PC will hang. 750W Gold with 5 cards? Interesting...

Probably better configuration for the cards. And maybe slight difference in PSU. And also maybe not dual mining but eth only.