AMD Official Mining Drivers

Apparently AMD wants to avoid shortages of their new Vega cards at any cost. Consequently, the company is doing their best to help miners to keep their older GPUs functional for mining. In order to do that, AMD issued an official driver release aimed to improve GPU mining hashrate.

AMD has been working on this driver for a while now. In fact, it became available for download about two weeks ago, though it was an unofficial beta release. Today, AMD posted the same driver on their official webpage.

Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Beta for Blockchain Compute

I have tested this new driver on my rigs and I can confirm that they it does improve hashrate, no more hashrate drop, everything is back to normal. I suspect that the driver reverse the DAG epoch issue, rather than making GPUs mine faster.

I have tried the driver on RX 400 and RX 500 cards, though according to AMD webpage, the Crimson ReLive Edition Beta is compatible with a wide variety of GPUs, starting from the Radeon HD 7×00 series and up to the Vega edition.

FIRST CHECK MY TEST!

Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4GB 5x GPU Mining Rig

Ethereum Mining

Previous Drivers

• 27.100 Mh/s per GPU

Ethereum Mining Rig DAG epoch drop

Ethereum Mining Rig DAG epoch power draw

New Beta Drivers

• 29. 5 Mh/s +2.5 Mh/sper GPU

Ethereum Mining Hashrate DAG epoch driver fix

Ethereum Mining Hashrate DAG epoch driver fix power draw

The rig went from 135 Mh/s to 147 Mh/s on ethereum only mode.

Let’s see how it goes in dual mode

Ethereum Dual Mining Siacoin

Previous Drivers

• Ethereum: 27.400 Mh/s per GPU
• Siacoin: 460 Mh/s per GPU

ethereum dual mining siacoin dag epoch hashrate drop

ethereum dual mining siacoin dag epoch hashrate drop power draw

New Beta Drivers

• Ethereum: 29.500 Mh/s per GPU
• Siacoin: 410 Mh/s per GPU

ethereum dual mining siacoin dag epoch fix beta drivers

ethereum dual mining siacoin dag epoch fix beta drivers power draw

Ethereum Dual Mining Decred

Previous Drivers

• Ethereum: 27.500 Mh/s per GPU
• Decred: 635 Mh/s per GPU

ethereum dual mining decred dag epoch hashrate drop

ethereum dual mining decred dag epoch hashrate drop power draw

New Beta Drivers

• Ethereum: 29.500 Mh/s per GPU
• Decred: 680 Mh/s per GPU

ethereum dual mining decred dag epoch hashrate drop fix

ethereum dual mining decred dag epoch hashrate drop fix power draw

Yes, i can confirm that everything is now back to normal! YAY, no more DAG epoch hashrate drop :), also i see a slightly less power consumption. Note that i used the exact same clocks, dcri, undervolt with both driver versions.

Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB 4x GPU Mining Rig

Finally i was able to test the RX 500 series (this should work for rx 570 and 580) since many of you were complaining about high power usage, undervolting and high temps, i had the same problems.. no matter what i tried Beta MSI Afterburner, Trixx, WattTool.. no luck.. in the end i tested with WattMan from AMD Driver Settings, after some tweaks i was able to undervolt them to 130w – 140w on DUAL MINING. This was a quick test but i will add soon more pictures with results.

This is a 4 GPU rig and before undervolting and downclocking, power usage was around 900+w (forgot to take a picture, will add it soon).

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amd mining drivers rx 580 undervolting 2

amd mining drivers rx 580 gpu-z sensors

amd mining drivers rx 580 undervolting mining hashrate

amd mining drivers rx 580 undervolting ethereum dual mining decred hashrate

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amd mining drivers rx 580 undervolting ethereum dual mining decred 4x gpu power draw

Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB 8x GPU Mining Rig

Here is guys a 8x Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB GPUs minig rig with the same drivers and overclock / undervolt procedure via Wattman, the rig is running stable. Check screenshots!

From 1840w to 1230w

141 MH/s

Sapphire 11265-07-20G Radeon Nitro+ Rx 580 4GB GDDR5 Dual HDMI/ DVI-D/ Dual DP with Backplate (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card

Price: $179.95

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sapphire nitro+ rx 580 4gb 8x gpu mining rig stock power draw

sapphire nitro+ rx 580 4gb 8x gpu mining rig overclock and undervolt power draw

sapphire nitro+ rx 580 4gb 8x gpu mining rig ethereum dual mining decred siacoin hashrate

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How to fix Ethereum / Ethash DAG epoch hashrate drop!

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Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Beta for Blockchain Compute Release Notes installation 1

Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Beta for Blockchain Compute Release Notes installation 2

Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Beta for Blockchain Compute Release Notes installation 3

Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Beta for Blockchain Compute Release Notes installation 4

device manager no patch

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device manager after patch

Enjoy and happy mining! 🙂 share your results..

In Conclusion

This is indeed great news for those of you who were reluctant about installing the unofficial driver release. Now you can download it from the official AMD page and enjoy the increase in hashrate.