HD7770 & HD7750 mining thread

[e21]

So I figured I'd start an official mining thread for the Hd 77xx series..

Just got my first 7770 today, and I must say I'm less than impressed.. BFI_INT doesn't seem to be supported, as any miner that has it enabled, default or otherwise will just exit.

So far I have tried the DiakGCN kernel for Phoenix, as well as phatk and phatk2, tried using phoenix 1.7.4 (about to try with 2.0 rc1) and I get 131MH/s at 1000MHz, 9 aggression, vectors (just VECTORS, 2, 4 or 8 decrease performance), and worksize 128 (256 decreases slightly, and 64 makes no difference)

Using 12.2 drivers for 7700 series, SDK 2.6 (started at 2.5, read that 2.6 was better for GCN so I upgraded and it made no difference [fortunately it didn't seem to decrease my hash rate on my 6950, maybe due to the 12.2 drivers]) and Windows 7 64bit

Anybody who is able to get over 131.5MH/s at 1000MHz clock speed, PLEASE post all your specs, including miner, and the parameters fed to it.

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[e21]

149 MH/s at stock speed now: Phoenix 2.0 rc1, autoconfigure = enabled, VECTORS = true, BFI_INT = disabled, DiakGCN doesn't seem to work with Phoenix 2 atm

NOTE: autoconfigure slects opencl as the kernel, not phatk2. Not sure if this means anything to anyone since I get higher MH/s using this kernel, also I thought that kernel was only for use with CPUs.. strange I get higher MH/s with it..

Anyone tried Diablo or cgminer yet? Supposedly they have built in support for GCN, although I haven't tried them yet

[e21]

Anyone tried Diablo or cgminer yet? Supposedly they have built in support for GCN, although I haven't tried them yet

IMO you should be trying diablo and cgminer first.

Going to try them next; never used them before so I was trying to avoid them.. Dont need all the fancy overclocking and fan options cgminer has, and I don't like the idea of a Java miner..

EDIT: I made a mistake on my original post, I was actually running at 1100MHz when I got the origonal MH/s rate.. It's actually less at stock   only 131MH/s with Phoenix 1.7, and 149 MH/s Phoenix 2.0 when using the opencl kernel for some odd reason.. only good news is GPU is on auto fan and only 55*C at 1100MHz

[Isepick]

We bought ckolivas (the guy who does cgminer) a 7970 specifically so he could tune cgminer for the GCN architecture. He has been working on a kernel and helping Diapolo integrate his kernel into cgminer. I get my 7750 tomorrow, I'll post my results here, though I may do a detailed review thread as well.

[e21]

We bought ckolivas (the guy who does cgminer) a 7970 specifically so he could tune cgminer for the GCN architecture. He has been working on a kernel and helping Diapolo integrate his kernel into cgminer. I get my 7750 tomorrow, I'll post my results here, though I may do a detailed review thread as well.

7770 seems fairly different from 7970 though.. BFI_INT does not appear to be supported for one, and most kernels now have it enabled by default; I will try cgminer after I make something to eat  

EDIT: BFI_INT does work with 2.6 SDK bundled with 12.2 preview drivers, doesn't help much though.. Diablo started up but didn't start hashing.. maybe is was user error though, never used that before.. cgminer didn't start either but that was also probably me 

[bulanula]

Try DiabloMiner and cgminer because they are the only ones to be working with 7XXX cards.

Report back if you can. Thank you !

[Mousepotato]

Any power consumption numbers yet?

[e21]

Try DiabloMiner and cgminer because they are the only ones to be working with 7XXX cards.

Report back if you can. Thank you !

I tried diablo which started up on all four GPUs, even recognized the 7770 as Capeverde, but none of my GPUs started hasing, it just idled saying 0.00 MH/s..

cgminer wouldn't start either, saying failed to initialize GPU 0.. not sure how to configure that though really, tried going through this guide that had me install mingw32, and Microsoft SDK and a bunch of other steps, but I still couldn't get it so start..   sorry, still a noob at some of this.

Supposedly DiakGCN kernel with Phoenix works 99% as well as cgminer using diakgcn though, according to Dia who wrote the kernel for both miners.

Will try and post some power consumption rates later today.. I managed to get 1240MHz core on stock voltage though (1.17v), going to try and get 1300< on 1.2v

Hashing at 183MH/s @1230MHz using Phoenix 2.0 running OpenCL kernel.. Anybody have any idea why this kernel would result in better hashrate than diakgcn or phatk2 using the same miner?

[Joshwaa]

Here is you best option. Install the latest 12.2 drivers and use diablominer get the latest one updated yesterday. run with no flags that should do good. (maybe -w 128 might be faster) I have my 7970 on those settings getting 690Mhash each.

[e21]

Here is you best option. Install the latest 12.2 drivers and use diablominer get the latest one updated yesterday. run with no flags that should do good. (maybe -w 128 might be faster) I have my 7970 on those settings getting 690Mhash each.

I was able to get diablominer working! Stupid me, I had http:// in front of my pool URL, which was causing it not to be able to connect I guess, anyway:

Latest Diablominer as of 2/17/2012, 12.2 with bundled 2.6 SDK, Win7 64bit, clocked at 1230MHz: 183MH/s vs 181 MH/s Phoenix 2.0 with fine-tuned paramaters; will experement with differant paramaters later this evening, I'm pretty sure I can get more MH/s out of it, as diablo defaults to 256 worksize, which is not optimal for 7770. I'll bet I can get at least another 5MH/s out of it with -w 128. Still, I was hoping for 200-220 MH after a 20% OC, which is about what the 6770 gets  

Also, Dia is going to send me an updated kernel for Phoenix 2.0 which isn't available on github; I'm hoping that will work even better as Phoenix 2.0 is already getting almost as much as diablo. Will post results of this as well as power consumtion tests later this evening. Also going to try overvolting and higher OCs this evening too! @1230MHz atm at stock.

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There was a problem with earlier cgminer releases and the new 12.2 ATI driver release. This should be fixed in cgminer 2.2.7 so this should work with these cards.

[BCMan]

 So, 7770 is 1.5 times slower than 5770?   What a waste of money on this junk.

[bulanula]

So, 7770 is 1.5 times slower than 5770?   What a waste of money on this junk.

What do you expect ?

It has got less shaders.

GCN shaders are not faster than VLIW5 shaders ...

[maxll]

Well, with my 5750 I can get about 190 Mhashes/sec at 890Mhz/0.98V/65C with cgminer 2.1.2.

[ssateneth]

So, 7770 is 1.5 times slower than 5770?   What a waste of money on this junk.

What do you expect ?

It has got less shaders.

CGN shaders are not faster than VLIW5 shaders ...

you mean gcn. graphics core next.

[e21]

Any power consumption numbers yet?

Sorry for the delay on this, the following is assumed when taking these measurements:

7770HD is GPU 3 in my system, with no monitor attached, I am assuming 5 watts idle board power (IBP) (supposedly 3 watts), thanks to AMD Zero Core
Memory is not under-clocked, I wasn't able to use ATI tray tools on this GPU since it is not GPU 0 or the same type of GPU as 0, 1125MHz GDDR5, you could probably shave off a few watts if you downlcoked it to 300.
165 Watts total system power idle, from the plug, measured with Kill-a-Watt
System is using an 80-plus bronze certified PSU

Drum roll please:
Stock voltage and clocks: 1,000MHz @ 1.175v, ~150MH/s using Phoenix 2.0 (Diablo is slightly faster) 165watts > 211 watts (rounded up .5 watts) + 5watt IBP = ~50 Watts, or 3MHs/Watt with current drivers and kernels
1250MHz @ 1.215v, 184MH/s using Phoenix 2.0 (Diablo is slightly faster) 165 Watts > 225 watts (rounded up 1 watt) + 5 watt IBP = ~65 watts, or 2.83MHs/Watt with current drivers and kernels.
Not too shabby if you can overlook the high $/MHs

Anyone who thinks these numbers are low, consider that with the architectural improvements, the graphics core consumes only slightly more power than the GDDR5 memory would under full load, hence the 80 watt TDP. I wonder if this card will boot without a 6 Pin PCIE connection..

Also note that even with a high fan speed (bought the XFX double fan edition) this card gets rather warm in my server rack with extremly good air flow, hotter than my shader unlocked 6950's do running at 920MHz 
Could it be the die simply dosen't have the surface area to dissipate that much heat into the heatsink? Industrial manufactured diamond-based heatsinks now plz!

[Miner612]

I am working on my 7770 as we speak.  Getting very similar numbers OP is.  NOT happy at all.  Glad I kept all my new 5850s.

[e21]

I am working on my 7770 as we speak.  Getting very similar numbers OP is.  NOT happy at all.  Glad I kept all my new 5850s.

I hear ya  at least the MHs/Watt is alright I guess.. Maybe in a year when the price is around $110 they'll be a better option.. I'm hoping for some fairly serious kernel improvements as well, maybe slightly better drivers too, but you can't expect too much improvement in that field from AMD these days.

You could always try 1500MHz @1.4v lol, haven't tried pushing that hard yet 

[Miner99er]

You could always try 1500MHz @1.4v lol, haven't tried pushing that hard yet 

Next on Bitcoin talk, how to let all the magic smoke out of your components and turn them into doorstops. 

[Dark Shroud]

Well AMD has shrunk the line up a bit so we'll have to wait and see how the HD 7800 cards do and their prices.

It's probably going to be four months before AMD is putting out steady driver updates for GCN.