Unofficial "High MHash"/"Best Settings" GPU Comparision Thread

[tidus_13]

Why u guys put the card HD 5850 at 560 Memory clock isnt  300 better or no?


i was using 840   and 300 memory clock.

~334 mH/S do i have to change something?

[dani]

Card Manufacturer: ATI Sapphire
Card Model Number: 5830 Extreme 1gb
Card OEM:
MHash per Second: 279
Core Clock: 925
Memory Clock: 180
Average Operating Temperature: 68 °C
Ambient Temperature: 30 °C
Fan Speed: 20%
Host OS: Win7 - 64bit extreme
Driver Version: catalyst suite (minimal installation) 11.11
Mining Program: cgminer 2.6.5
Command Line Flags/GUIminer Settings: -k diablo, worksize: 256, vectors: 1, intensity: 9, gpu-threads: 2
Other Information: 4 cards, seperated by 1x-16x pcie riser, without plastic on the fans. sempron 140 (unlocked to athlon II X2 4400e) and some 900watt psu. GPU vddc 1.065 V

Anyone could tell me why my cards only run around 279? I tried bamt with phoenix, it gave me about 300mh/s on same settings. Phoenix on win7 will give me like 850-900 only (maybe because i cant overclock properly). Any other kernel performs worse (using diablo).

Please anyone?

[racerguy]

Card Manufacturer: ATI Sapphire
Card Model Number: 5830 Extreme 1gb
Card OEM:
MHash per Second: 279
Core Clock: 925
Memory Clock: 180
Average Operating Temperature: 68 °C
Ambient Temperature: 30 °C
Fan Speed: 20%
Host OS: Win7 - 64bit extreme
Driver Version: catalyst suite (minimal installation) 11.11
Mining Program: cgminer 2.6.5
Command Line Flags/GUIminer Settings: -k diablo, worksize: 256, vectors: 1, intensity: 9, gpu-threads: 2
Other Information: 4 cards, seperated by 1x-16x pcie riser, without plastic on the fans. sempron 140 (unlocked to athlon II X2 4400e) and some 900watt psu. GPU vddc 1.065 V

Anyone could tell me why my cards only run around 279? I tried bamt with phoenix, it gave me about 300mh/s on same settings. Phoenix on win7 will give me like 850-900 only (maybe because i cant overclock properly). Any other kernel performs worse (using diablo).

Please anyone?

Experiment with different driver versions?  I thought catalyst 10.6 were meant to be best for 5xxx cards.  Also you're not having problems with the 100% cpu bug are you?

[dani]

I just saw i have the 100% cpu bug. i tried 11.11, 11.12 (no difference for me) and 12.6 (worst)... ill try 10.6, i thought 11.11 was the best.. thanks in advice!

edit: thats odd. i now have sdk 2.5 running (drivers 11.11, it seems the driver version doesnt effect mhash, but sdk does). I have 1mh/s less than before. Wtf?

edit: fixed the 100% cpu bug, using 12.6 drivers but 2.5 sdk. Still no improvement except 100% cpu bug is gone. Any point in using older sdk than 2.5? Is 2.5 the best choice for cgminer 2.6.5 with diablo kernel?

I dont see whats the best combination. is it the kernel? Phatk performs way worse than diablo.

edit2: for some reason sdk 2.1 didnt work with cgminer

[deepceleron]

I just saw i have the 100% cpu bug. i tried 11.11, 11.12 (no difference for me) and 12.6 (worst)... ill try 10.6, i thought 11.11 was the best.. thanks in advice!

edit: thats odd. i now have sdk 2.5 running (drivers 11.11, it seems the driver version doesnt effect mhash, but sdk does). I have 1mh/s less than before. Wtf?

edit: fixed the 100% cpu bug, using 12.6 drivers but 2.5 sdk. Still no improvement except 100% cpu bug is gone. Any point in using older sdk than 2.5? Is 2.5 the best choice for cgminer 2.6.5 with diablo kernel?

I dont see whats the best combination. is it the kernel? Phatk performs way worse than diablo.

on a 5830:
Phatk2 - with BFI INT enabled, 256 worksize, vectors (2vector), at ~360MHz RAM and as high coreclock as you can get. Look at my previous posts on the first page of this topic.

SDK 2.5 is a good choice, you have to make sure that if you have ever installed a driver after 11.11 or SDK 2.6+ that you manually go in and remove the opencl files left behind by SDK 2.6, neither the uninstaller or a reinstallation of an older driver properly removes them. Stream SDK 2.1 will get +1%, but for the time it will take for you to get it working (substituting around files, newer miners won't work right because this SDK only support OpenCL 1.0, etc) it's not worth it.

[dani]

on a 5830:
Phatk2 - with BFI INT enabled, 256 worksize, vectors (2vector), at ~360MHz RAM and as high coreclock as you can get. Look at my previous posts on the first page of this topic.

SDK 2.5 is a good choice, you have to make sure that if you have ever installed a driver after 11.11 or SDK 2.6+ that you manually go in and remove the opencl files left behind by SDK 2.6, neither the uninstaller or a reinstallation of an older driver properly removes them. Stream SDK 2.1 will get +1%, but for the time it will take for you to get it working (substituting around files, newer miners won't work right because this SDK only support OpenCL 1.0, etc) it's not worth it.

i see, thanks. I just dont know how to install/use phatk2. Where do i get the phatk2 kernel from? I found this site containing phatk2:
https://github.com/DDarko/Phoenix-Miner/tree/master/kernels/phatk2

but where to put it? Please, your help is appreciated very much

edit:

i tried to replace the original phatk120823.cl or so with the kernelfile i found (phatk2). Get an error:

[2012-08-24 19:53:21] Started cgminer 2.7.3




 error detected in the compilation of "C:\Users\root\AppData\Local\Temp\OCLABB2
tmp.cl".

nternal error: clc compiler invocation failed.

[2012-08-24 19:53:22] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0
[2012-08-24 19:53:22] Restarting the GPU from the menu will not fix this.
[2012-08-24 19:53:22] Try restarting cgminer.
ress enter to continue:

same error when i call the kernel phatk2120823.cl and use -k phatk2

As you mentioned its hard to deinstall higher drivers/sdk. i deinstalled drivers and sdk via install manager, then went to windows/system32/ delted 3 files (amdcpl64, amdcplcl64,Opencl or so) and the same on systemWOW64 or so. Reinstalled sdk 2.5 and driver version 11.11. im pretty sure there is no 2.6 sdk running, but how can i tell? Did i miss any files?

[deepceleron]

You can just use Phoenix miner which comes with phatk2.

here's a phoenix.cfg file for you, just put in your pool info:

[general]
    autodetect = +cl -cpu #Use autodetect for all OpenCL devices, except those which are CPUs.
    verbose = True #Enable verbose logging?
    backend = http://user:password@us1.ozco.in:8332 #The primary backend.
    backups = http://user:password@us2.ozco.in:8332 #A space seperated list of backup servers.
    failback = 300 #Seconds between attempts to reconnect to primary backend when using backups. (0 to disable)
    queuesize = 1 #Target/maximum size of the queue
    queuedelay = 5 #Seconds before work expires to request more work (WARNING: don't change this unless you know what you are doing!)
    statusinterval = 1 #Seconds between statusbar updates
    ratesamples = 10 #Number of samples to average for hashrate reporting
    logfile = False #Set this option to log to a file.
[web]
    disabled = True #Disable the RPC server?
    bind = 192.168.1.100 #IP to bind the RPC server to
    port = 7780 #RPC port
    password = phoenix #RPC password
    root = C:\phoenix2\phoenix2\www #Root directory for the web server
    logbuffer = 1000 #How many logs to remember in the getlogs() RPC call
[cl:0:0]
    autoconfigure = False #Automatically configure this device?
    kernel = phatk2 #The kernel to use for the device
    name = GPU 0 #The name to display the device as (default is device ID if not specified)
    start_undetected = False #Do not start the kernel if the device is not present
    disabled = False #Disable this device?
    worksize = 256 #Work group size, tweaking this option may improve performance
    vectors = True #Use unit2 vectors? (enable this or vectors4, not both)
    vectors4 = False #Use uint4 vectors? (enable this or vectors, not both)
    bfi_int = True #Use BFI_INT instruction on ATI VLIW GPUs?
    goffset = True #Use OpenCL 1.1 global offset?
    fastloop = False #Use fast internal loop? (ideal for low aggression)
    aggression = 12 #Number of nonces to test per kernel execution (lower value = less desktop lag, higher value = higher hashrate)
[cl:0:1]
    autoconfigure = False
    kernel = phatk2
    name = GPU 1
    start_undetected = False
    disabled = False
    worksize = 256
    vectors = True
    vectors4 = False
    bfi_int = True
    fastloop = False
    aggression = 12
[cl:1:0]
    autoconfigure = True

[dani]

im very frustrated

i tried phoenix already, it gives 266 mh/s now, most likely because it runs on stock clock. How can i adjust clock/etc without any (stupid) tools? (266 on 800mnz would be excellent i guess, making 320 on 975 possible ).
I tried deleting any amd/ati file like you said here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63616.0
also installed 11.6.
Now opencl wont find any card except gpu0 (no gpu1,2,3..). Damn, my day is already screwed..

18:51] Loaded configuration file cgminer.conf
18:51] ADL found more devices than opencl!
18:51] There is possibly at least one GPU that doesn't support

18:51] Use the gpu map feature to reliably map OpenCL to ADL
18:51] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices did not match!
18:51] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!

edit: i found out phoenix was running on 970/180.. still only 266mh/s. Thats madness!

[deepceleron]

im very frustrated

i tried phoenix already, it gives 266 mh/s now, most likely because it runs on stock clock. How can i adjust clock/etc without any (stupid) tools? (266 on 800mnz would be excellent i guess, making 320 on 975 possible ).
I tried deleting any amd/ati file like you said here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63616.0
also installed 11.6.
Now opencl wont find any card except gpu0 (no gpu1,2,3..). Damn, my day is already screwed..

18:51] Loaded configuration file cgminer.conf
18:51] ADL found more devices than opencl!
18:51] There is possibly at least one GPU that doesn't support

18:51] Use the gpu map feature to reliably map OpenCL to ADL
18:51] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices did not match!
18:51] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!

edit: i found out phoenix was running on 970/180.. still only 266mh/s. Thats madness!

Driver 11.11 is fine, it comes with SDK 2.5 runtimes after you find and remove newer ones (which you only need to do once). I use Sapphire Trixx to overclock, but MSI Afterburner will also change clocks and voltage above what the stock ATI control panel allows. I don't know where you got 180MHz ram setting, 350-380MHz RAM will be the peak performance on a 5830 with SDK 2.5.

The phoenix 2.0 config file has entries for each GPU - you just need to copy the working [cl:0:0] parameters to additional [cl:0:1] [cl:0:2] and [cl:0:3] for each GPU.

This is offtopic, futher questions should go to the phoenix thread or cgminer threads.

[jjshabadoo]

You need SDK 2.1 for best performance of 5xxx series cards.

I use driver 11.12 and SDK 2.1 on my 5970's and 5870's and you get max hash rates with that combo.

CGminer is also a very easy miner to work with, but people can get slightly higher hash rates with Phoenix although phoenix requires some more configuring as the poster above showed you.

CGminer doesn't require as much configuring for optimal performance.

[crazyates]

You need SDK 2.1 for best performance of 5xxx series cards.

I don't understand why people are always saying that. I always got exceptional hashrates on my 58xx and 5970 cards with 2.5. It was 2.6+ that stunk for 5xxx cards.

[deepceleron]

You need SDK 2.1 for 100% CPU usage with 5xxx series cards.

Fixed that 4 U.

I was able to get 0.3 % better performance with SDK 2.1

[BinaryMage]

OP updated, thanks Dani. That's an impressive temp with that OC and 20% fan, nice job.

[dani]

Thank you for your help, i will post further on cgminer thread.

for the temps: some cards are even lower (63°c). pictures here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7216.msg1131595#msg1131595. i also applied new cooling paste last month.
if overclocked to 975/300 (1.128 V) the system is getting way hotter (like 73-74 on avarage). keept it cool

edit: i fixed it! i was thinking vectors 2 isnt working, but i tried again: it works now. it works as it should im so happy right now