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.

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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).

amd mining drivers rx 580 undervolting 1

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 nitro+ rx 580 4gb 8x gpu mining rig overclock undervolt 1

sapphire nitro+ rx 580 4gb 8x gpu mining rig overclock undervolt 2

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

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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.

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It is not news that AMD is working on a new driver release for their Polaris-based GPU’s that would allow them to solve the mining hashrate dip due to DAG file increase.

Some days ago, an unofficial driver release became available for download. The release is nothing more than AMD’s beta version of the driver. However, it appeared on Bitcointalk forums rather than on AMD’s official website.

As always, there are mixed opinions on this new driver. Some people downloaded and tried it, while others claim that this unofficial release is unsafe. Personally, I’ve tried it on my rig of RX 580/570/560/470s (Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB, MSI RX 570 4GB, Sapphire Pulse RX 560 4GB and Sapphire Nitro+ Rx 470 4GB) to see what the fuzz is about.

In this article, I’ll try to systematize all the data I was able to gather so far.

Hashrates

Apparently this new driver does affect hashrate positively in some cases. The most positive changes are:

Now, many people complain that the driver does not work for them; others claim that they are not able to undervolt the card after upgrading to the new release. I did noticed though that most of the issues are caused by the fact that they do not install the drivers on a freshly installed windows.

To add more, it is a good idea to try the drivers on a freshly installed windows were there are no traces of your wallets or passwords.

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Overclocking and Undervolting

Despite popular opinion, this driver does allow you to undervolt your cards. However, it is done differently than when using an official AMD release.

Apparently, you can undervolt the cards by using only the 4.4.0 beta 16 version of afterburner. Some users also noticed that AB does not always reflect voltage changes straight away.

You can also use Claymore v9.8 to overclock your RX 470/480 cards. The tool, however, won’t work with the RX 570/580 ones.

Safety

Some users are concerned about the safety of this new driver. The main concern is the possible presence of backdoors. However, this is a signed AMD driver, which means that in theory it cannot be hacked. The main reason why people panic is because it takes a bit of patience and time to install and configure it properly.  That being said, it is still a good idea to install the driver only if you do pool mining.

Installation

The installation process is rather straightforward and simple.

Here is a list of the files you’ll need:

display driver uninstaller

Ethash DAG epoch RX470 480 570 580 FIX driver

Ethash DAG epoch RX470 480 570 580 FIX driver 2

Ethash DAG epoch RX470 480 570 580 FIX device manager 1

Ethash DAG epoch RX470 480 570 580 FIX device manager 3

Ethash DAG epoch RX470 480 570 580 FIX device manager 5

Ethash DAG epoch RX470 480 570 580 FIX device manager 6

Ethash DAG epoch RX470 480 570 580 FIX device manager 7

atikmdag-patcher-1.4.5 1

atikmdag-patcher-1.4.5 2

Here are my tests for Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 4GB, MSI RX 570 4GB, Sapphire Pulse RX 560 4GB and Sapphire Nitro+ Rx 470 4GB

Stock clocks and BIOS

Using mixed drivers from this tutorial on #138 DAG epoch

Hashrate

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 mining hashrate dag epoch 138 1

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 mining hashrate dag epoch 138 2

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 mining hashrate dag epoch 138 3

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 mining hashrate dag epoch 138 4

Temps and Power Draw

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 temps dag epoch 138 1

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 temps dag epoch 138 2

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 temps dag epoch 138 3

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 power draw dag epoch 138

Using AMD Beta Drivers

Hashrate

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 mining hashrate dag epoch 138 Beta Drivers FIX 1

rx 580, rx 570, rx 570 mining hashrate dag epoch 138 Beta Drivers FIX 2

Temps and Power Draw

rx 580 temps dag epoch 138 Beta Drivers FIX 1

rx 570 temps dag epoch 138 Beta Drivers FIX 2

rx 560 mining hashrate dag epoch 138 Beta Drivers FIX 3

rx580, rx 570, rx 560 power draw dag epoch 138 Beta Drivers FIX 3

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The results (stock clocks and bios)

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In Conclusion

Most people prefer to wait for the official driver release by AMD. While this unofficial beta release is signed by AMD, many community members prefer to play it safe and wait for the driver to appear on AMD website. Both approaches seem equally reasonable, especially considering that soon AMD might post the official version of the driver on their website.

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