Topic: Radeon™ RX 560 Gaming OC 4G (rev. 1.0) 16.3MH/s bios - page 3. (Read 13085 times)

I've just tried the latest drivers (18.3.2) from amd...

Ok, it was just a waste of time. Completely.

1. AB doesn't work properly with these drivers
2. The 'Compute Workloads' can't be switched on for some of my GPUs for some reason
3. The 'Radeon Settings' software is f'cking sloooooow and extremely f'cking inconvenient (I was very close to smashing my laptop, waiting while the next UI screen is being opened after a button is clicked)
4. I've not managed to get acceptable hashrates
5. Rolled back to the blockchain edition drivers

Seems, power consumption is approximately the same for the both.

Branko, what exact version of the drivers do you use, please?

Thank you! In a couple of days i will come new 2 cards and try to update them immediately this BIOS. Hopefully this will increase productivity.

They're 4 gigaBITS, 4x4 gigabits = 16 gigabits = 2 gigabytes

Ok, I need some suggestion, and I thought that someone here may help me.

I purchased an used XFX 460 2 gb ( because I want to learn to make custom strap for cryptonight...) and I got it very cheap.

I tested "stock", and was giving 11 Mh on ubiq and 320 on Cryptonight

Then I saved the bios, baffin.rom, and  I open it with Polaris and used the one click function to move the strap from lower speed to the higher ones. Memory is Hynix and Elpida

I flash the bios, windows is ok  and  it hang in Claymore. And it hang in Xmr stack, GGS,Phoneix, and  any mining sw I can think of.

I flash his own bios back and it hang in Claymore. And it hang in Xmr stack, GGS,Phoneix, and  any mining sw I can think of.

Thats the first time it happened to me. I give a look on the internet and there is all this story about unlocking the shaders and so on, and a lot of people unable to flash the bios.
Got me thinking, I remove the fan , and there are 4 chip from Elpida ELPIDA/EDW4032BABG-70-F, that, according to the datasheet are 4 GB GDDR . Just to confirm I removed a 550 4 gb Asus, and it the same "configuration" but the chip are from micron.

So, What I have is probably a 4gb, cutted somehow in the bios to 2 gb.
In the process of copying the bios and restoring it something changed and now isn't working as 2 GB, even if its recognized as 2 gb from the miners

Is this possible or there is an easier solution to what happened ?

Its "safe" to try to install a stock bios of a 460 4GB on it ?
 

Of course I did   However hashrate was ~1Mh/s worse than with the drivers I use.
Anyway, seems, it's time to try once again.

Btw, what exact version are you using? The most recent one (18.3.2) or...?

Maybe you didn't do this?

https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/DH-024.aspx

I meant those drivers (Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition Beta for Blockchain Compute Driver Version 17.30.1029 (Windows Driver Store Version 22.19.659.0).

I have tried the Adrenalin Edition drivers a couple of times. But each time I got lower hashrate than with the blockchain drivers. Perhaps, I should try once again. Thank you for the hint.

This is rev 1.0








Btw, if by "blockchain drivers" you mean ones from 23. august 2017, try latest adrenaline instead,

as original old blockchain driveers are known to draw more power

Why do you think so? Just because of there is no additional power connector?

Seems, the both revisions have no the connector:
rev.1.0:


rev.2.0:

Thank you for the clarification. Now I'm going to give it a try. Hopefully what I just ordered come with the Microns.

That one is rev.2, its worse than rev 1, but interesting that it actually draws more power...maybe
hwinfo actually measures only power drawn over pci-e slot, and don't add power drawn over additional connector?
Although that doesn't make much sense when you look at stronger cards that draw most of power
from additional connectors

It's GV-RX560OC-4GD GPU (not sure is that rev1 or rev2, with 1 fan and no additional power connector):
Adapter  1 (BN=03, DN=00, FN=00, PCIID=00001002, SSID=0000230A)
    Asic Family     :  Polaris11      
    Flash Type      :  GD25Q41B    (512 KB)
    Product Name is :  GV-RX560OC-4GD/F60/0696
    Bios Config File:  RX560O4.F60    
    Bios P/N        :  P/N Not Available
    Bios Version    :  015.050.002.001.000000
    Bios Date is    :  10/31/17 03:57  

Also, I'm using the latest version of HWinfo and blockchain edition of the amd drivers.
The fan speed is bigger because I use AB software fan control with custom fan speed curve.

PS. Today I'm going to test the strap on another GV-RX560 edition GPU. Will let you know the results later.

I change 2000MHz on micron and 2000+2250 on hynix, because theres no point changing
lower straps...if for some reason default 1750MHz strap doesn't work, you have bricked card
that won't even boot...same goes for changing default frequencies in BIOS...if card won't work,
you'll get bricked card that you have to spend time to get back to working condition

Both memory and core are set to 875mV in BIOS (but memory is actually working at 2240 in my case  )

Those are impressive numbers. So the micron strap is at 2000 in your BIOS?
I see you're running 1180mhz/890 mv core. Memory is at 2140mhz but what volts are you giving to it?
I think I have an RX 460 lying around, ill see how high it goes with this strap ...

Its Micron only, it should work for other micron based cards, too
(strap at 2000MHz)


Thats pretty crazy, I can't think about any other reason but bug in HWinfo, or
AMD driver giving wrong info in either your or my case
Interesting to note that your card has both bigger average fan speed, and whole
7C bigger average temperature...is it GB rx560 Rev1 with 2 fans and additional
PCI-E power conenctor?



I guess memory cooling is super important, judging from this...memory chips seem to draw a lot of power too
(about 50% of overall consumption in RX560 cards, I estimate, less for stronger rx570/580 GPUs),
and if you look at picture I took before I put cooling paste, its obvious even memory package suffers from heat:

Great stuff here, credit to the OP. Somewhere else people have to spend money for this.

Is the BIOS only works for certain type of memory? or it will work on any other?

thanks a lot!

Hi Branko, thanks for this awesome post.
I may need some help tho, is your GPU a gigabyte version? My MSI rx 560 keeps crashing whenever i go beyond 15mh.

Branko, any idea, why power consumption of my GPU is higher than yours one, please?

thanks

Hi Branko,

I've tested the strap on 2 GPUs:
1. Gigabyte GV-RX560OC-4GD - ETH 15.6MHz@2125 and hang@2150
2. MSI RX560 AERO ITX 4G OC - works unstable even at 1950MHz