Review: Ethereum Mining Radeon RX 480 – Overclocking | HiveOS Settings (Best?)

Can I still mine with RX 580, RX 570 and RX 480 with 4 Gb of 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 into 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:

Dagj generator

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.

Relevance of maps based on the Ethash algorithm

The table shows that 4Gb cards have become practically irrelevant at the end of 2021, 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 speed of access to RAM is much lower than to RAM.

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

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Step 1: Go to Flight Sheets and create a flight sheet. Select the coin ETH, register your wallet (you must first create it), pool, and miner. Select TeamRedMiner and click Setup Miner Config.

Create Flight Sheets (flight sheet) and select the TeamRedMiner miner

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 choose this figure 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

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 RX 470 4Gb 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 …

Specifications

AMD RX 570 4 Gb has the following characteristics:

Memory	4 Gb, GDDR5
Interface	PCI Express 3.0 x16
Cooling	Active type (cooler)
Frequency of work	GPU, 1.255 GHz
Tire	256 pages
Connectors	3хDisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-D (HDCP), HDMI
Dimensions (edit)	232 x 116 x 40 mm
Additional food	1x8pin
Power	160 watts
Power supply requirements	450 watts

The 8 Gb version has the following characteristics:

Memory	8 Gb, GDDR5
Memory frequency	7 GHz
Core frequency	NITRO Boost – 1.340 GHz (default), Silent – 1.244 GHz
Cooling	Active type (cooler)
Memory bus width	256 pages
Interface	PCI-Express x16 3.0
Dimensions (edit)	260x135x43 mm;
Connectors	DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
Additional food	6 + 8 pin

RX consumption in mining can be calculated based on these characteristics, and it is necessary to take into account the operation of an 8 GB video card in different modes. The speed of earning money is also calculated individually, based on all parameters, as well as on what currency will be mined.