Configuring Radeon RX 560 4gb’
Miners wishing to increase the ‘profitability of cryptocurrency mining’ are trying to find an improved rx 560 firmware for mining. It must be remembered that such manipulations with the bios of a video card can negatively affect its performance. In addition, the manufacturers themselves categorically prohibit doing this, because the BIOS firmware will lead to the loss of the official warranty.
Mining on radeon RX 560 can be improved by software overclocking of the card using the popular MSI Afterburner utility or another similar program.
Most major vendors have their own proprietary programs for overclocking video cards, which can be downloaded from the manufacturer’s official website in the same section where the current drivers are located.
Using such software cannot damage the video card, which is the main advantage of overclocking in this way. The worst thing that can happen is the video card entering a constant reboot. In the event that this happens, then the settings of the video card will independently return to the factory settings. This is the main advantage of this overclocking method, because if you get into the BIOS, there is a chance that the card will fail completely. Often, inexperienced users turn the card into a “brick”, although even from this situation there is a way out if you turn to specialists. A more rational solution would be to use software overclocking as it allows, in addition to changing the operating frequencies of the video chip and video memory, to change the power consumption of the video card.
Using MSI Afterburner, the video core frequency can be raised to 1320 MHz, and the memory frequency to 2000 MHz.
With these settings, the card continues to work stably without overheating. Mining zec, as well as mining zcash and other popular cryptocurrencies on an overclocked video card, is 5-7 percent faster.
Also, to stabilize the operation of the rx 560 at overclocked frequencies, it is recommended to manually set the rotational speed of the coolers in the region of 80-90 percent.
Energy control
AMD specialists have specially optimized the power consumption of the radeon rx 560 for mining purposes. Thus, they managed to achieve the perfect balance between the cost of consumed electricity and the amount of mined cryptocurrency. The issue of reducing the power consumption of video cards is especially relevant for miners, because the profitability of crypto mining directly depends on this.
A significant reduction in the level of power consumption is achieved through the use of a special BIOS version for the video card.
Unlike its predecessor, the rx 560 offers half the power consumption. In addition, it lowered the operating temperature of the video core and stabilized the entire system.
In addition to the fact that the manufacturer himself has worked to reduce the power consumption, the user himself, using third-party programs, can reduce the voltage supplied to the video core. Such a step will lead to a slight decrease in performance at the level of 3-5 percent, but it will have a positive effect on the temperature of the video card and on the duration of its operation.
