Sapphire RX 470 Nitro+ OC 4GB Bios Flash / Mod Tutorial (Hynix, Elpida, Samsung, Micron) 30+ Mh/s

last updated september 24, 2017

A couple of days a go i sold my 6x 370s and bought 3x Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4GB OC instead and was the best decision because i got higher hashing speed with lower watt, from 750w to 400w.

I guess now most of new and old miners know that the RX 470s 4GB are the most efficient cards to mine with, at least for Ethereum, ZCash, Monero, PascalCoin etc..

In this tutorial i am going to show you how to modify and flash BIOS to your RX 470s, this will increase the GPU hashrate substantially. My RX 470s went from 22.xx Mh/s at stock settings to 24.xx with modded bios and 29.xx with overclock and undervolt. So i got a much higher hashrate and at the same time low watt consumption with better hashing speed, around 70w to 80w per card.

The thing is that not all cards are the same, for example there are 4 different types of memory #1 Hynix (31.xx Mh/s), #1 Elpida (31.xx Mh/s), #2 Samsung (28.xx Mh/s), #3 Micron (22-24.xx Mh/s), read more about the memory types and how to spot them here. I wasn’t that lucky to get a Hynix or Elpida but i got a Samsung instead, which is better than Micron :), after few days of struggling and testing i was able to get a nice and decent hashing speed of 29.xx Mh/s on Ethereum, most of miners are reporting 28.xx Mh/s maximum hashrate but for some reason i was able to push the cards a bit more.

Right now i am going to share with you my BIOS mod for Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4GB OC, specially with Samsung memory but i will include in the tutorial how to mod and flash the cards with Hynix, Elpida, Micron also two Reference models. Also ill show you what driver version, software and tools are needed to flash and modify bios.

To make the things even clear this is the exact card i am using in this tutorial:

Sapphire Radeon NITRO Rx 470 4GB GDDR5 Dual HDMI / DVI-D / Dual DP OC (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card 11256-10-20G

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Let’s get started!

1 Download and install/extract the following

Sapphire RX 470 Nitro+ OC 4Gb Modded Bios for Samsung Memory

Save original Default BIOS

• Shut down your rig
• Remove all the GPUs and leave only one plugged, my recommendation is to flash the cards one by one
• Start the rig and Extract ATIFlash 2.74 to C: in a folder like “atiflash“
• Run ATIWinflash.exe as administrator, click on “Save” button to save the default BIOS (make sure the RX 470 card is selected), give it a name like Sapphire470defaultBIOS.rom
• Click “ok” and “continue“
• Once the BIOS is saved close ATIFlash

atiflash saving sapphire rx 470 default bios

Silent BIOS Switch

• Shutdown your rig again
• Switch BIOS to silent mode (towards the HDMI cable side)
• Start the rig

Sapphire_NITRO__RX_470_OC_BIOS_LED_Switch

Save original Silent BIOS

Modifying / Modding the BIOS

Sapphire RX 470 Nitro+ OC 4GB Samsung Memory Bios Mod & Flash

• Start GPU-Z to find out what type of memory does your GPU have, make sure you use the correct ROM to flash the card
• Start Polaris Bios Editor
• Open Sapphire470silentBIOS.rom
• On TIMING (MHz) area copy 1750 timings to 1900 and 2000, or you can try to copy from 1625 to 1750, 1900 and 2000
  
• Save the modded BIOS like Sapphire47modded.rom
• Close Polaris Bios Editor

Download 1625 timings https://mega.nz/#!E84W3YDb!rPxXD-m__3ISunSU6WvgiXw6xNhYgy3hZ1Oj40YCg6s

Download UPDATED VERSION 30 MH/S (clocks 1150/2150) : https://mega.nz/#!94JDXQpQ!wOVpMmVXsTg9KOjIGVJzNUpWwqW7mvcK2VZTRI0UXxk

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polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod

polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod timings 2

polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod timings

polaris bios editor sappphire nitro rx 470 mod saving modded bios

Flash the BIOS with ATIFlash 2.74

• Start ATIFlash 2.74
• Load the image Sapphire470modded.rom
• Click on “Program” button
• Wait about 30-60 seconds till you get the message “Your VBIOS was programmed successfully“, click OK
• Restart the rig and test

atiflash starting as administrator

atiflash load bios image

atiflash your vbios was programmed succsessfully

atiflash restart for modifications

Pretty much this is it, repeat the same steps with each GPU.

Here is the same GPU before and after bios mod

sapphire nitro+ rx 470 4gb oc ethereum hashrate at stock settings

sapphire rx 470 4gb modded bios

My results:

sapphire trixx gpu, memory and mV

sapphire strixx settings

sapphire strixx gpu-z watt consumption

sapphire nitro+ rx 470 4gb oc dual mining 29 mhs ethereum

rx 470 4gb claymore dual miner 29 Mhs

Coming next with RX 470 8GB 🙂

Thank you for reading. As always, your comments, suggestions and questions are welcome.

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Sapphire Radeon NITRO+ Rx 470 4GB GDDR5 Dual HDMI / DVI-D / Dual DP OC w/ backplate (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card Graphics Cards 11256-01-20G

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Features

• 2 x HDMI; 1 x DVI-D; 2 x DisplayPort
• 1143 MHz Engine Clock; 1260 MHz boost Engine Clock
• 1750 MHz, 7000Mbps effective Memory Clock