How to ‘increase/ Max/ Optimize/ Tuning/ Boost’ Hashrate AMD Radeon R9 390 8GB Mining: Overclocking/ Ethereum/Best Settings / Radeon R9 380 2G MSI Afterburner Settings
Details Category: Mining on video cards Published on 05/24/2017 00:19 Author: Vyacheslav Admin I would like to start with the fact that the architecture of the video chip of the old AMD Radeon 300 series is still relevant for cryptocurrency mining. In this article, I decided to consider in detail the fact of mining on 390/390x at the time of the summer of 2020, but mining in 2020 on the 300 series is still profitable, I’ll run ahead. Many will already start whining, like: “390 – oven, eats a lot! You can not heat the apartment in winter. And in general, mining on it is unprofitable.
What does unprofitable mean? In relation to what, to Rx 480 with their power consumption? And what about those guys who have a “free socket”? And in general, it all depends on what kind of cryptocurrency to mine and what rate it has, relative to Bitcoin. You can mine with a fool and minus. Mining fool protection is not provided. Experience and circumstances turn an ordinary miner into a successful business investor. The essence of mining is not to connect your video card to the pool and earn “penny”, but to invest your money correctly and not wonder about the payback.
“What about the payback, then why invest?” – Before I had time to develop the topic, similar questions already begin to appear in your head. To be successful in mining, you will constantly have to spend part of the money you earn to increase power, and when buying another video card, you must understand that the video cards you already have have partially paid off, and each next purchased one will pay off after some period. Why am I all this, if there is an option to buy an AMD Radeon R9 390 on the cheap, then feel free to take it, because it will definitely return this money to you, even though it eats 275w, and you will earn good money on it.
The cryptocurrency market has become one of the most attractive areas for investment in 2020. And mining – the extraction of coins with the help of computing power, has changed significantly due to the widespread use of ASIC boards. All this led to a huge increase in the complexity of mining, for some currencies – tens and hundreds of times. But manufacturers of gaming video cards also need the mining industry, so many of their developments are aimed specifically at mining digital coins. AMD has always been a leader in this area, and mining on r9 270x, despite all the changes in the industry, is still profitable and efficient.
The 270x was released in 2013 as a budget gaming graphics card aimed at users with low budget but high performance needs. On r9 270, mining is mostly popular among the same users, now with a gaming focus in need of computing power to mine coins.
For many novice users, mining on r9 270 and similar old cards is completely uninteresting, since their power is not enough to efficiently mine the most expensive modern cryptocurrencies. Experienced market players understand that video cards like the rx 270x in mining can sometimes become much more valuable than the most modern development costing a thousand dollars. For example, on the sapphire radeon r9 270x version, Ethereum mining has one of the highest efficiency on the market due to the card’s energy-efficient characteristics:
Due to its characteristics of the radeon r9 270x, mining with it is 20-25% more efficient than with other video cards released around the same time period.
The main and most important parameter when using such video cards is the correct choice of the coin to be mined. Most often, the user only needs r9 270 hashrate Ethereum, which is about 14 MH / s, but in order to make the most of r9 270 in mining, it is necessary to constantly analyze the cryptocurrency market and the dynamic change in mining difficulty. Experts recommend regularly studying the industry so that even old video cards can bring a small profit, and mining on the radeon r9 270x with the right settings can even be good.
What is included in the configuration of this video card, of course, is overclocking and downvolting the core. If we take Msi AMD Radeon R9 390x as an example , then the stock core frequency is 1080 mHz, the usual 390 has 1050 mHz. You can slightly lower the voltage on the core through the Msi Afterburner program, and then we will achieve a drop in temperature and consumption in small quantities, but still better than nothing.
If you are mining two cryptocurrencies in dual mining mode with Claymore, then the temperature of your r9 390/r9 390x can skyrocket to 75 or even 80 degrees. Normal downvolting will not help here, you need to drop the core frequency. The 300 series does not lower the core frequency with a slider in the driver or in the afterburner, for this you need to lower the Power Limit in the driver with another slider. In my experience, this is the fastest and easiest way to downvolt and reduce the core frequency and temperature of the video card.
You will find a middle ground between temperature and video card hashrate. I used to have two video cards on the Antec 850w block: R9 390x and Rx 480 8gb (non-wired), and so this block did not pull out Ethereum mining at stock parameters, because both video cards are very powerful. I found a way out quickly, lowered the consumption of r9 390x by 18%, and its frequency did not exceed 1020 mHz. Yes, the mining speed dropped a little, but this is not critical, because in return I got stability in the operation of the farm and, moreover, a relatively low temperature of one of the video cards.
I have r7 360 from msi, 8 gigs of ddr4 and i5 6402r and in GTA at high-very high 40-60 frames depending on the location I think you can squeeze the same fps out of 380 at maximum There you need to delve into the card settings and experiment with the settings direct x graphics only 11, in 10 the fps drops twice, choose soft shadows from AMD, do not load the card with a variety of cities and everything will be ok
Resets frequencies, which means an increase in temperature and overheating. Try putting another cooler/afterburner in while playing to see the temperature. Above 75 – overheating and reset. During the game, turn off auto cooler speed control, set it to 90% and see the result. Then, after the game, turn on auto regulation again so as not to force the cooler.
The GTX 960 has better detail at stock settings. The same can be achieved through the R9 380 driver settings, but the FPS will drop significantly. Take 960, you won’t lose anyway. From experience, I can say that Nvidia has fewer glitches in firewood than AMD. I used to be an ardent fan of AMD (there was not enough money))). Now only intel and nvidia.
Well, super, the GTX770 copes with the same, and its memory frequency is higher, but the rest is the same. The only question is what is the use of this 300 series if they have not changed anything (the series is exhibited as a competitor to the 900 series GTX). Because the GTX900 series are already declared as cards for ultraHD, as far as I understand. So this is a strange thing.
R9 390/390x video cards based on the Dagger Hashimoto algorithm in Ethereum mining give out 30.5 and 31.5 Mh/sec, respectively. Under overclocking to 1100 mHz and higher, about 32 Mh / sec is given out in the core. If we take a separate case, for example: you have 390x in your system unit, and you mine ETH + Dec in Dual Climore mode, and slightly lowering the frequency and power consumption, in order not to melt something, then such mining speed indicators will be quite acceptable, as in the screenshot.
AMD Radeon R9 380X | AMD Radeon R9 280X | |
general information | ||
Architecture | GCN 3.0 | GCN 1.0 |
codename | Antigua | Tahiti |
Design | AMD Radeon R9 300 Series | AMD Radeon R9 200 Series |
Release date | 19 November 2015 | 8 October 2013 |
Price at the date of the first issue | $229 | $299 |
Place in the ranking | 194 | 181 |
Price now | $528.44 | |
A type | Desktop | Desktop |
Price/performance ratio (0-100) | 15.61 | |
Specifications | ||
Core clock in Boost mode | 970 MHz | 1000 MHz |
Number of Compute pipelines | 32 | |
Floating point performance | 3,973 gflops | 4,096 gflops |
Technological process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
Number of shader processors | 2048 | 2048 |
Stream Processors | 2048 | 2048 |
Texturing speed | 124.2 GTexel / s | 128.0 GTexel / s |
Power Consumption (TDP) | 190 Watt | 250 Watt |
Number of transistors | 5,000 million | 4,313 million |
Video outputs and ports | ||
Video connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort |
Display Port support | ||
Dual-link DVI support | ||
Eyefinity | ||
HDMI | ||
Number of Eyefinity displays | 6 | |
VGA | ||
Compatibility, dimensions, requirements | ||
CrossFire without bridge | ||
Tire | PCIe 3.0 | PCIe 3.0 |
Form factor | Full Height / Full Length | |
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Length | 221 mm | 275 mm |
Additional power connectors | 2 x 6-pin | 1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin |
API support | ||
DirectX | 12 | 12 |
Mantle | ||
OpenCL | 2.0 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
volcano | ||
Memory | ||
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) | ||
Maximum memory size | 4 GB | 3 GB |
Memory Bandwidth | 182.4 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
Memory bus width | 64 bit | 384 Bit |
Memory frequency | 970 MHz | |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
The Zcash cryptocurrency mining speed at 390x is 414 H/s with a core frequency of 1080 mHz .
When overclocked to 1150 mhz , we got a speed of 421 H / s , so it’s almost useless to boost the core frequency, you will get more power consumption, and an increase in temperature, and the life of the video card will decrease. The 10 H/s difference is not worth it.
Specifications | |
Release date | 19 November 2020 vs 8 October 2013 |
Power Consumption (TDP) | 190 Watt vs 250 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 4 GB vs 3 GB |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark — G3D Mark | 6354 vs 6330 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 9700 vs 8953 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 9700 vs 8953 |
GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames) | 3356 vs 3355 |
GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Fps) | 3356 vs 3355 |
Specifications | |
Core clock in Boost mode | 1000 MHz vs 970 MHz |
Texturing speed | 128.0 GTexel / s vs 124.2 GTexel / s |
Floating point performance | 4,096 gflops vs 3,973 gflops |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark — G2D Mark | 664 vs 662 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Frames) | 3719 vs 3716 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps) | 3719 vs 3716 |
Finally, I want to note that of the video cards from AMD, the most powerful in mining is R9 390x . Rx 480 8gb and Rx 580 8gb (8000 mhz) can almost catch up with it in terms of hashrate in Ethereum mining, and then only after flashing the BIOS, changing the RAM timings and overclocking it, but not in stock. I will write about Zcash mining on 400 and 500 series in the following articles. I can say about myself that I have a farm of two 390 and one 390x, alternately mine Eth + dec and Zcash, I have to carefully monitor the rate of cryptocurrencies. All three graphics cards feel great under the Thermaltake TR2 RX 1250 bronze block with a slight downvolting.
GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 380X GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 280X
PassMark — G3D Mark | GPU 1 |
GPU 2 |
6354 PassMark — G2D Mark GPU 1 662 GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) GPU 1 9700 GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) GPU 1 9700 GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Frames) GPU 1 3716 GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps) GPU 1 3716 GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames) GPU 1 3356 GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Fps) GPU 1 3356
Name | AMD Radeon R9 380X | AMD Radeon R9 280X |
PassMark — G3D Mark | 6354 | 6330 |
PassMark — G2D Mark | 662 | 664 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 9700 | 8953 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 9700 | 8953 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Frames) | 3716 | 3719 |
GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps) | 3716 | 3719 |
GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames) | 3356 | 3355 |
GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Fps) | 3356 | 3355 |
3DMark Fire Strike — Graphics Score | 0 | 0 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 89.187 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1434.496 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — T-Rex (Frames/s) | 7.656 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Video Composition (Frames/s) | 87.459 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop — Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 493.57 |
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