[GUIDE][TUTORIAL][XMR,ETH]How To Mod Bios RX470/570/480/580 VEGA Mining 💰⛏

[Mattthev]

Should I switch BIOS to silent on my cards before HEX flashing timings?

Hell what a brilliant thread.... One question how do I know which bios is which on the RX570 .... I believe  the silent one cannot be flash as a precautionary measure. ..Hence my question which is the starting point .....closest to front of the card or the position towards the middle. My Rx580 seems fine ...just need to sort the Sapphire Rx570 with bios switch.

I don't have that card, but if it's same like on old R9 380 the silent one is on HDMI side. You better Google it or start your own thread.

[Njeroe]

Should I switch BIOS to silent on my cards before HEX flashing timings?

Hell what a brilliant thread.... One question how do I know which bios is which on the RX570 .... I believe  the silent one cannot be flash as a precautionary measure. ..Hence my question which is the starting point .....closest to front of the card or the position towards the middle. My Rx580 seems fine ...just need to sort the Sapphire Rx570 with bios switch.

You can and you should flash the silent BIOS which is closest to the front panel with the connectors... don't flash the other BIOS...

[JUPIE2008]

Thx will try that and will report back

[MinerJ89]

I am new to this website but have followed and read some great stuff but I am stumped and wondered if anyone could help me?

I have 5 x RX570 Nitro + cards and have modded the bios for 2 of them, managing 29MHs. The issue I have is my 3rd card, with the exact same memory and bios, has a hashrate of 12 Mhs reducing to around 5/6Mhs. With no bios mod it manages around 24 Mh/s Any ideas?

I have used the same modded bios on all cards, then modded only the memory timings which also reduced the hasrate. I have also switched the risers and no luck. I am unsure why a bios mod kills the hashrate when it increases the other cards which are exactly the same

[heavyarms1912]

I am new to this website but have followed and read some great stuff but I am stumped and wondered if anyone could help me?

I have 5 x RX570 Nitro + cards and have modded the bios for 2 of them, managing 29MHs. The issue I have is my 3rd card, with the exact same memory and bios, has a hashrate of 12 Mhs reducing to around 5/6Mhs. With no bios mod it manages around 24 Mh/s Any ideas?

I have used the same modded bios on all cards, then modded only the memory timings which also reduced the hasrate. I have also switched the risers and no luck. I am unsure why a bios mod kills the hashrate when it increases the other cards which are exactly the same

did you play with the TDP or power numbers?  What's the voltage and clocks on this particular card when mining.  most likely the card's throttling.

[MinerJ89]

I am new to this website but have followed and read some great stuff but I am stumped and wondered if anyone could help me?

I have 5 x RX570 Nitro + cards and have modded the bios for 2 of them, managing 29MHs. The issue I have is my 3rd card, with the exact same memory and bios, has a hashrate of 12 Mhs reducing to around 5/6Mhs. With no bios mod it manages around 24 Mh/s Any ideas?

I have used the same modded bios on all cards, then modded only the memory timings which also reduced the hasrate. I have also switched the risers and no luck. I am unsure why a bios mod kills the hashrate when it increases the other cards which are exactly the same

did you play with the TDP or power numbers?  What's the voltage and clocks on this particular card when mining.  most likely the card's throttling.

I have not changed the voltage or power numbers. The memory is at 2100 with uber mix 3.1 and core is 1125. I added another card last night and used the same pci riser and saved bios and it everything worked fine. Do you think it’s a duff card? I also modified the bios to just update the timings to Uber Mix 3.1, nothing more and it still dropped. Seems like any modification to stock bios sends the hashrates down.

[primeminer]

I love mining, I use 580 and I get 31 mhs. this is very easy and not as difficult as I imagined. Ethereum only

[Mattthev]

Hi Mattthev,

like many others I am new to mining and GPU OC.

Here is the situation:
Recently I discovered

Gateless Gate Sharp 1.1.18: zawawa's open-source dual ETH/XMR/PASC/LBC/FTC miner

and I actually have great success mining Cryptonight with zawawa's miner.

I mean a hash rate of 1,070 h/s for each RX 580 is not bad at all.
With Claymore's I never had more than 1,017 h/s, which is also not bad.
Ethash is working ok at 28.5 mh/s (Claymore's 29.2 mh/s).
If I understood correctly zawawa is currently implementing Equihash.

Anyway, with some recent release zawawa's miner became unstable on my rig (6 x MSI Radeon RX580 Gaming X 8GB with Samsung memory).
With v1.1.14 the miner stopped once a day (with i'm using right now with a batch in a loop because the monitor is not reliable).
But with v.1.1.19 the miner restarted 13 time last night (with the monitor working perfect).

To remove support requests (of my kind, I guess) zawawa does not support bios modded toward Claymore's any longer.
Which is fair enough.

Zawawa is doing a tremendous job answering all forum posts, bug fixing and implementing new features etc. all at the same time.
Therefore I belief zawawa deserves the 1% devfee and I really want to bear with him.

Currently my bios is modded with the UberMix 2.3 timing strap copied to 1:1500 and up taken from the source code of jaschaknack's PolarisBiosEditor v.1.6.4:

777000000000000022CC1C00AD615B41C0570E152DCB7409006007000B031420FA8900A00300000 010123A46DB354019

And the Good HYNIX_2 copied into 2:1500 and up (which was necessary I have learned afterwords):

777000000000000022AA1C00B56A6D46C0551017BE8E060C006AE6000C081420EA8900AB0300000 01B162C31C0313F17

Would you be able to mod the bios for my RX580 specific for Zawawa's miner?
If so, how many beer's would be required?

Cheers

I'm not much familier with that miner I tried it once, but there are too many things to config in GUI... I'm not fan of it.
What are your core clocks? You ETH hashrate is pretty low for the XMR hashrate... So you probably have core clocks pretty high.
Try Uber-mix 3.1 like almost everyone else, decrease the core clocks or set higher voltages, watch for memory errors.

[MinerJ89]

I am new to this website but have followed and read some great stuff but I am stumped and wondered if anyone could help me?

I have 5 x RX570 Nitro + cards and have modded the bios for 2 of them, managing 29MHs. The issue I have is my 3rd card, with the exact same memory and bios, has a hashrate of 12 Mhs reducing to around 5/6Mhs. With no bios mod it manages around 24 Mh/s Any ideas?

I have used the same modded bios on all cards, then modded only the memory timings which also reduced the hasrate. I have also switched the risers and no luck. I am unsure why a bios mod kills the hashrate when it increases the other cards which are exactly the same

did you play with the TDP or power numbers?  What's the voltage and clocks on this particular card when mining.  most likely the card's throttling.

The issue was the UberMix 3.1 timings - that one card cannot handle them timings. Any suggestion to other timings I can use?

[Mattthev]

I am new to this website but have followed and read some great stuff but I am stumped and wondered if anyone could help me?

I have 5 x RX570 Nitro + cards and have modded the bios for 2 of them, managing 29MHs. The issue I have is my 3rd card, with the exact same memory and bios, has a hashrate of 12 Mhs reducing to around 5/6Mhs. With no bios mod it manages around 24 Mh/s Any ideas?

I have used the same modded bios on all cards, then modded only the memory timings which also reduced the hasrate. I have also switched the risers and no luck. I am unsure why a bios mod kills the hashrate when it increases the other cards which are exactly the same

did you play with the TDP or power numbers?  What's the voltage and clocks on this particular card when mining.  most likely the card's throttling.

The issue was the UberMix 3.1 timings - that one card cannot handle them timings. Any suggestion to other timings I can use?

Then try 3.2

[DeltaCraze]

Hello, I need help with rx560 4Gb hynix memory. No matter what i do i can't get it past 11,8 MH/s. Tried timings posted here @1950MHz but hashrate was same as stock bios.
Thank you for any help or information

[onionpealer]

Hello, I need help with rx560 4Gb hynix memory. No matter what i do i can't get it past 11,8 MH/s. Tried timings posted here @1950MHz but hashrate was same as stock bios.
Thank you for any help or information

If it's a Powercolor RX 560 Red Dragon you could try this https://anorak.tech/t/powercolor-rx-560-red-dragon/35822

[DeltaCraze]

Hello, I need help with rx560 4Gb hynix memory. No matter what i do i can't get it past 11,8 MH/s. Tried timings posted here @1950MHz but hashrate was same as stock bios.
Thank you for any help or information

If it's a Powercolor RX 560 Red Dragon you could try this https://anorak.tech/t/powercolor-rx-560-red-dragon/35822

It's Sapphire RX560 4g Pulse with H5GC8H24MJR memory .So it probably won't work or will it ?

Edit:tried timings from the bios you recomended didn't change anything still 11,8 MH/s

[onionpealer]

Hello, I need help with rx560 4Gb hynix memory. No matter what i do i can't get it past 11,8 MH/s. Tried timings posted here @1950MHz but hashrate was same as stock bios.
Thank you for any help or information

If it's a Powercolor RX 560 Red Dragon you could try this https://anorak.tech/t/powercolor-rx-560-red-dragon/35822

It's Sapphire RX560 4g Pulse with H5GC8H24MJR memory .So it probably won't work or will it ?

Edit:tried timings from the bios you recomended didn't change anything still 11,8 MH/s

Try this https://github.com/jaschaknack/PolarisBiosEditor for Windows you just need the PolarisBiosEditor.exe

[DeltaCraze]

Hello, I need help with rx560 4Gb hynix memory. No matter what i do i can't get it past 11,8 MH/s. Tried timings posted here @1950MHz but hashrate was same as stock bios.
Thank you for any help or information

If it's a Powercolor RX 560 Red Dragon you could try this https://anorak.tech/t/powercolor-rx-560-red-dragon/35822

It's Sapphire RX560 4g Pulse with H5GC8H24MJR memory .So it probably won't work or will it ?

Edit:tried timings from the bios you recomended didn't change anything still 11,8 MH/s

Try this https://github.com/jaschaknack/PolarisBiosEditor for Windows you just need the PolarisBiosEditor.exe

I'm already using SRBPolaris

[strike101]

quick question.. after dumping my bios and launched polaris

my Asus ROG StrikeX RX570 Gaming has two types of memory

EDW4032BAB (ELPIDA)
H5GC4H24AJ (HYNIX_1)

is this normal ? GPU-Z only displays Elpida

[heavyarms1912]

quick question.. after dumping my bios and launched polaris

my Asus ROG StrikeX RX570 Gaming has two types of memory

EDW4032BAB (ELPIDA)
H5GC4H24AJ (HYNIX_1)

is this normal ? GPU-Z only displays Elpida

Yes.  Your's is Elpida memory.  GPU mfg made a common BIOS as the board might have either of memory and they didn't want to figure it out and load memory specific BIOS.

[strike101]

quick question.. after dumping my bios and launched polaris

my Asus ROG StrikeX RX570 Gaming has two types of memory

EDW4032BAB (ELPIDA)
H5GC4H24AJ (HYNIX_1)

is this normal ? GPU-Z only displays Elpida

Yes.  Your's is Elpida memory.  GPU mfg made a common BIOS as the board might have either of memory and they didn't want to figure it out and load memory specific BIOS.

well that clears things up... thanks

[pankno1]

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Lot of people asking how to mod RX bios. There are 2 ways the easy one and the proper one.
I will show you the easy way. This bios modding is easy for newbies. This bios mod tutorial is for memory intensive algos such as Ethereum, Monero, Dubaicoin, etc.
Undervolting will only work with Windows.
If you need undervolt bios for Linux you need to do the harder way. You can ask here, someone could make it for you. I know that masters Eliovp and Wolf0 can do it.

If you need help, buy me a beer I can help you. Write me on e-mail monerobiosedit@gmail.com
What I can offer:

• Performance timings for all GPUs
• Bios mod
• Support

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Drivers

For best ETH performance need to use mining drivers (Blockchain) for Windows 7/10 and Linux or Compute workload
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Blockchain Drivers for Linux
Radeon Software Crimson Edition ReLive Graphics Driver 17.12 - Adrenaline - these drivers need to be switched to compute workload

VEGA 56/64

Guide How to Flash VEGA 56 -> 64 + Bios Download + Mods
VEGA Guru3D thread + Bios download - VEGA 56 -> VEGA 64
Bitcointalk VEGA thread
Reddit mining thread VEGA 64 43.5MH/s 130W

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VEGA 64 Oldcomer's youtube guide
VEGA 56 Hellae guide Bitcointalk
Monero and Vega - the definitive guide by Hellae
VEGA 56 Hellae guide Reddit thread
Reddit Wattman settings
Album how to mod VEGA 64
VEGA 56/64 Video BIOS Collection

Softpowerplay voltage mod guide by Hellm


Basic Performance Timings for Elpida/Hynix/Micron/Samsung for RX


Free performance timings for Hynix H5GC8H24MJ for testers! You need to know how to use PBE or SRB I also need feedback on that. Send me an e-mail monerobiosedit@gmail.com

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How To Mod Polaris Bios AMD RX 470/570/480/580

Tools
Polaris Bios Editor 1.4.1
Polaris Bios Editor 1.6.6
SRBPolaris Bios Editor V3.2
AMD/ATI ATIFlash 2.77
GPU-Z 2.5.0
ATI Pixel Clock Patcher 1.4.6
DDU
HWinfo64+32

OC Tools
WattTool - working on old drivers up to 17.7.1
OverdriveNTool - like WattTool for 17.7.2, blockchain drivers and newer
Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 19, use BETA 12 for 17.6.2 and older drivers
Afterburner 4.4.0 Beta 21

Benchmarks:
GPU & CPU BENCKMARKS FOR MONERO MINING!

Check what memory vendor you have with GPU-Z. This is Samsung.

https://i.imgur.com/NxxI0DK.jpg


Download newest ATIWinFlash and save your bios.

https://i.imgur.com/G1hu5Bv.png


Start Polaris Bios Editor or SRBPolaris. Open the bios.
SRB Guide is under PBE guide, this forum doesn't support Spoiler tag so it's little bit confusing.

Polaris Bios Editor 1.4.1

https://i.imgur.com/GXrngkU.jpg


Copy performance timing. For Samsung is best Uber-Mix 3.1.
First post -> RX Performance timings. It can be used for RX 470/570 and 480/580 4GB or 8GB. Use it only for Samsung memory.
There are performance timings for all vendors Elpida, Hynix, Micron. You can google some of them also you can make your own. Basically it's just normal timing strap from card with tightening timings for better performance. It can be decode to values in SRBPolaris for example.

If you want good performance timings you can write to me I can sell you them. For all memory vendors.
EDIT: Basic Performance Timings for Elpida/Hynix/Micron/Samsung

Beware of space before the strap while you copying the Uber-Mix 3.1 from original web!

Copy it to 1750 and 2000. If you have more straps like this 1:xxxx 2:xxxx, you need to copy to the right one. In VRAM section, there is dropdown menu the Samsung one start with K, Hynix with H and Elpida with E. First one is 1:xxxx second one is 2:xxxx, SRBPolaris showing exact name of memory vendor.

https://i.imgur.com/O6AqBAa.jpg


You can higher or lower TDP if you want. Max memory clocks or vcore.

Undervolting
Do not put static voltages
Voltages like 65286 means they are dynamical for every card based on ASIC quality mostly. So you can flash the bios to all same cards (memory vendor) and it will work, every card will have similar voltages, some lower some higher.
The trick for easy undervolting is put lower values than it is. Voltages need to be equal or higher than the previous on.

https://i.imgur.com/XAhsgTI.jpg


Example from other forum how it could be

https://i.imgur.com/ht1irCj.jpg


If you set clock in Afterburner or whatever you will se what voltages is that. Do not lower voltages too much in bios, you can always undervolt in Afterburner. Once you will know what voltages are stable you can put those dynamics values right for your card.

Also you can lower VDDC (VRM).
You can put values like 1000, 975, 950, lowering by -25mV. 975 and 950 should be stable on every cards, you can set 850 but this could be unstable. If you put lower voltages only to higher clocks it will always boot but in utilization it could be unstable.

https://i.imgur.com/2Md6Dlz.jpg


There is lot more to change but this is basic and it's mostly enough what you need.
It's mainly meant to show you what is performance timings and how to do easy undervolt.
Save the bios and flash it with ATIWINFLASH -> continue under SRB guide.

SRB Polaris V3

Open your stock bios. As you can see this one has 2 memory vendors. First is Samsung and second is Hynix. You can clearly see what memory vendor you edit, no 0:xxxx, 1:xxxx and 2:xxxx anymore.

https://i.imgur.com/xTeQg0y.png


If GPU-Z says Samsung edit only Samsung. If it says another vendor edit only the one!
As I wrote before, copy the Uber-Mix 3.1, 3.2 or other performance timing you have, if you have my pack copy it from the RX Timings txt file. I recommend you to use tweaked Uber-mix 3.1.1 from my pack for Samsung. Copy it to clocks you will use. So mostly is enough 2000, but you can copy it to 1750, 1900, 2250 basicaly all these high clocks.

https://i.imgur.com/dolQ8Iv.jpg


If you have Hynix, use the timings table for Hynix. Micron-Elpida means Elpida. Micron is Micron. Do not put Uber-mix or any other performance timing to other vendors! The timing pack you have from me is divided for all vendors so refer there for proper timings. Also read the info if the timing fits for 4GB or 8GB, if it's not stated it fits to both. Not every performance timing will work with your card good. If the card is not mining well, system crash or miner crash, try other performance timing from the timings file. If you still have problem, simply contact me on e-mail.
EDIT: Basic Performance Timings for Elpida/Hynix/Micron/Samsung

https://i.imgur.com/wf6ZshT.jpg


Here you can set clocks, 1411MHz is good for gaming, not for mining, only if you don't care about power consumption. For higher hashrate you can set around 1300MHz, optimal hashrate/watts around 1250MHz, for best power consumption around 1150MHz.
Memory clocks should be higher than 2000MHz, but bad cards can't run it. If you have Hynix 8GB with my performance timing you will need to run the card above 2200MHz for 31+MH/s. In bios set max 1900-2000MHz, OC the memory with utility like AfterBurner or WattTool to the max and check for memory errors in HWinfo64!!

https://i.imgur.com/uL3Z4QD.jpg


If you changed core or memory clocks you will need to save the bios now and open again. You can undervolt memory voltage controller, use the dropdown menu. 900-1000mV is mostly safe, if you want best stability leave it 1000mV or 975mV, 950mV.

https://i.imgur.com/InAeYui.jpg


Core undervolting is bad here. You can put static voltages but it's not much safe. Lower last digit by 1 or 2 if you lower the core clocks or they are under 1300MHz you can put there 65286, if your max core clocks are lower than 1250, you can even put 65285. PBE 1.5 is better for this kind of undervolting.

https://i.imgur.com/rUM2YgU.jpg


You can edit Wattage here. You can adjust little bit the Power limit, if you undervolt or you will in utility there is no needed to edit this at all, only if you want OC core to the max. Not applies for memory OC.

https://i.imgur.com/keycaEP.jpg


Bonus
On the timing tab if you click on STRAP EDITOR, you can explore the timing strap edit it and make your own timing strap.

https://i.imgur.com/Xt9meBW.jpg


Flash the mod bios

Save the bios and flash it with ATIWINFLASH
Load bios and click program. Your PC will freeze for few seconds so patiently wait!

https://i.imgur.com/4hTQJGx.jpg

After flashing your card uninstall AMD drivers with DDU!
Reboot and install new drivers and Pixel Clock Patcher Without patch your card will have error 43!
Reboot.

Memory OC and memory errors

Start miner or stability test.
Start with stock clocks than you can raise memory clocks by 10Mhz steps, every few seconds.
Download HWinfo64 and check for memory errors! Once you have some errors lower clocks a bit till there are no new. This clocks should be stable. After you find best memory clocks you can set core clocks (overclock or underclock) than you can try lowering voltages. Also you there shouldn't be artifacts!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/250644/how_to_overclock_your_graphics_card.html

Find your GPU and the GPU memory errors line. Watch it for numbers. If there are any after few minutes your memory clock is too high. If you have few errors after hours it's no problem. But key is to have 0 errors. Memory errors can cause bad shares!
https://i.imgur.com/F7QBwhU.jpg

With performance timings you can have 30-31MH/s with RX 470/570 and 31+MH/s with RX 480/580 (It could be 33+MH/s If you have bios from Wolf0 or Eliovp!)
This is max you can have not every card can achieve it! Most cards can run above 28MH/s.

Quick video how the modding in PBE could be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAgZbK0XVec

XMR: 800+H/s on 470/570/480/580, I don't know why, but 470 hashing more than 480
My XMR hashes with XMR-STAK-AMD
RX 470 Samsung 870H/s
RX 470 Elpida 835H/s
RX 480 Samsung 845H/s

SGminer GM 5.5.5
RX 470 Samsung 915H/s
RX 470 Elpida 890H/s
RX 480 Samsung 920H/s

My ETH hashes with Claymore (stock config)
RX 470 Samsung 30MH/s
RX 470 Elpida 29MH/s
RX 480 Samsung 31MH/s

Customers reports:
RX 470/570 Samsung 30-31MH/s
RX 580 8G Hynix 31+MH/s
RX 580 4G Hynix 30MH/s
RX 580 Samsung 31+MH/s
RX 580 Micron 29-30MH/s

About the same results for Dubaicoin (DBIX)

Update
JULY 2017: Due to hashrates drop are current hashrates on ETH lower!

Hope this could help someone, there are lot's of other tutorials and videos on youtube, but none of them what I saw used performance timings...

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This is my tutorial. It's not the best. I hope it's understandable and with no mistakes. Any tips for improvement appreciated!
I used some images from other forums.

Last edit: 2017/10/30
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[Ligareaux]

I'm totally lost

after use DDU and reboot, my GPU's aren't reconized

What can you do wrong? or what step can I be missing?

pd:first time trying to modding (and last time)