Can I still mine on RX 580, RX 570 and RX 480 with 4 Gb video memory?
In case you don’t know, the Ethereum DAG file passed the 382 era and this was the beginning of the zombie mode in 4Gb cards on AMD. What does it mean? The entire DAG file no longer fits in 4GB of video memory.
DAG file is a block of data, more than 1 Gb in size, used to find a block solution in the blockchain network using the Ethash algorithm. On which, in addition to the ether, there are such coins as: ETC, ETP, DBIX, QKC, EXP, ELLA, CLO, ETHO, UBQ, EGEM, ESN. It is the DAG file that is loaded into the memory of the video card when the miner is launched. Let’s look at the example of Excavator on nicehash:
The DAG file size increases over time. This happens every 30,000 blocks and is called a change of epochs, i.e. each epoch has its own DAG size. To find out the current DAG file size, use the service – https://investoon.com/tools/dag_size. It shows the current DAG file size for major currencies on the Ethash algorithm, and also allows you to determine the DAG file size by block number. Each block has its own epoch, and each epoch has its own DAG size.
The table shows that 4Gb cards have become practically irrelevant at the end of 2020, 6Gb cards still have 3 years left, and 8Gb and 11Gb cards still work and work.
As you can see, RX 480, 570, 580 on 4Gb are no longer relevant, but let’s find out if it is still possible to mine on them, how to do it and how much do they bring?
Zombie mode for RX 570, 480, 580 on 4Gb
At the beginning of 2021, cards with 4Gb video memory entered the so-called era of the zombie regime. At which the performance of mining on video cards with 4Gb video memory will exponentially fall with the coming of each next epoch. This is due to the fact that more and more part of the DAG file that does not fit into the video memory of the card will be located in RAM. But the problem is that the access speed to the RAM is much lower than that of the video memory.
Let’s see how to put your cards into zombie mode on different operating systems. For mining in zombie mode with such cards as Radeon RX 480 4Gb, RX 570 4Gb, RX 580 4Gb, TeamRedMiner is the most stable.
How to put your 4Gb graphics cards into zombie mode in Hive OS
Register in Hive OS using the link and the InsidePC promo code, and get $ 10 on your balance. Setting up Hive OS, described in detail in our manual, study.
Step 1: Go to Flight Sheets and create a flight sheet. We select the coin ETH, register our wallet (you must first create it), the pool, and the miner. Select TeamRedMiner and click Setup Miner Config.
In the settings of the miner, find the Extra config arguments field and enter the following command – —eth_4g_max_alloc 4076.
This command specifies how much video memory in the card will be used for the DAG file. Anything greater than this value will be located in RAM. The higher this figure, the less the drop in the hash rate in mining will be. We have 4076 mb. You need to pick this number yourself. If everything works stably at 4076, try raising it by 10 mb.
Click Apply Changes and save the flight sheet. We call the flight list as it is understandable, Zomby List or something like that.
How to put your 4Gb graphics cards into zombie mode in Rave OS
Setting up Rave OS is described in detail in our manual, study. First, you need to register with Rave OS.
Step 1: Create a wallet. Go to the Wallets tab and click Add Wallet, give it the name ETH-Zombie or something so that it would be clear that this is a wallet for the zombie mode.
Select the coin – ETH, select the Please select pool – binance pool, select the European servers on the pool, drive the Wallet into the wallet, set the miner to RedTeamMiner and go to its settings by clicking on the pencil.
And in the Additional comand line arguments field, enter -eth_4g_max_alloc 4076.
We save the settings and the wallet. Next, go to the worker and select the created wallet for mining.
Here is a screenshot of a real farm on 4Gb RX 470 cards:
The cards issue from 15 to 28 hashes. The first card gives such a hash rate, since plugged into the PCi-E slot directly. While mining with RX 580, RX 570, RX 470 with 4GB is quite justified and possible. Although there are already very few left for such cards …
Overclocking or tuning RX 580, RX 570, RX 480 for ether mining
For ether mining, the core frequency does not matter as much as the memory frequency. Therefore, more efficiency can be achieved with less power consumption.
Overclocking RX 580, RX 570 and RX 480 in Windows
Overclocking can be done in both Adrenaline 2020 and MSI Afterburner.
Set the core frequency to 1200, which is less than the card has, and set the memory frequency to 2100.
Overclocking RX 580, RX 570 and RX 480 in Hive OS
Register in Hive OS using the link and the InsidePC promo code, and get $ 10 on your balance. To overclock RX 580 and other cards in Hive OS, you need to select a farm and a worker (your rig). Next, on the desired map, click on the speedometer icon. Learn how to work with Hive OS in our detailed manual.
After that we change Core Clock, Mhz to 1150-1200, and Memory Clock, Mhz set from 2000 to 2240. If everything works well from 2000, you can raise the frequency. If there are broken balls, decrease the frequency.
Overclocking RX 580, RX 570 and RX 480 in Rave OS
First, you need to register with Rave OS.
To overclock the RX 580 for ether mining in Rave OS, you need to go to the worker and select Settings. In the worker settings, go to the Tuning tab. On the contrary, the card needs to change the values of Core Clock offset, MHz and Memory Clock offset, MHz to the same values as in Hive OS. Those. 1150-1200 in the core and from 2000 to 2240 in memory. Learn how to work with Rave OS in our detailed manual.
