Best AMD RX 470 rawintensity Monero Testing

[Patrick]

I just wanted to keep some notes on what I am finding with Amazon.com: ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon Rx 470 4GB OC Edition AMD Graphics Card with DP 1.4 HDMI 2.0 (STRIX-RX470-O4G-GAMING): Computers & Accessories on Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.10.1 on the Ryzen system. These are notes for myself on rawintensity settings of the AMD RX 470 mining monero with Wolf's miner.

                               {
                                       "index": 0,
                                       "corefreq": 500,
                                       "memfreq": 1500,
                                       "fanspeed": 65,
                                       "powertune": 20,
                                       "threads": 2,
                                       "rawintensity": $rawintensitynum,
                                       "worksize": 16
                               }

Monero AMD RX 470 worksize 16 rawintensity results

rawintensity 640 = 456H/s
rawintensity 800 = 498H/s
rawintensity 900 = 516H/s
rawintensity 960 = 524H/s
rawintensity 1000 = 527H/s
rawintensity 1001 = 526H/s
rawintensity 1002 = 527H/s
rawintenisty 1010 = TTM error
rawintenisty 1020 = TTM error

Here are worksize 8 rawintensity results

                               {
                                       "index": 0,
                                       "corefreq": 500,
                                       "memfreq": 1500,
                                       "fanspeed": 65,
                                       "powertune": 20,
                                       "threads": 2,
                                       "rawintensity": $rawintensitynum,
                                       "worksize": 8
                               }

rawintensity 900 = 531H/s
rawintensity 960 = 532H/s
rawintensity 980 = 534H/s
rawintensity 1000 = 535H/s
rawintensity 1001 = 535H/s
rawintensity 1005 = 534H/s
rawintenisty 1010 = Seg Fault
rawintenisty 1020 = TTM error

Here are worksize 4 rawintensity results

                               {
                                       "index": 0,
                                       "corefreq": 500,
                                       "memfreq": 1500,
                                       "fanspeed": 65,
                                       "powertune": 20,
                                       "threads": 2,
                                       "rawintensity": $rawintensitynum,
                                       "worksize": 4
                               }

rawintensity 900 = 507H/s
rawintensity 960 = 519H/s
rawintensity 980 = 518H/s
rawintensity 1000 = 518H/s
rawintensity 1001 = 521H/s
rawintensity 1005 = 520H/s
rawintenisty 1010 = TTM Error
rawintenisty 1020 = TTM Error

If you want to see the RX480 info here is the thread Best AMD RX 480 rawintensity Monero Testing

Power wise, using 225W as a base for the system with the RX 480. Adding the mining RX 470 pushes that to 348W.

Based on this, the best worksize and rawintensity for an AMD RX 480 using Wolf's seems to be worksize 8 rawintensity 1000

 

[Patrick]

The interesting tidbit here is that the RX 470 4GB is very close in terms of power consumption/ performance to a Ryzen 7 1700 with stock clocks and SSDs.

 

[T_Minus]

~125W of power per-video card is that accurate?
So 725w for 5x video card system that has same CPU power consumption as you...

"rawintensity 1000 = 526H/s" that's the GPU only or GPU + CPU?


Looking into the total cost, and operating cost for an X9DRX not in use as well as a GPU 4U chassis not in use... thinking maybe some low powered CPUs like E5-2630L (120w for 2, total) with 5x of the video cards may make for a profitable operation???

I'd also want to use or at-least have the option to use the GPUs for compute so I'm gonna look into that, 100% new area for me... but sure would be nice to pay for the GPUs in off-time and test/dev new projects on the same hardware

 

[Patrick]

@T_Minus That is per GPU. Would need to add in CPU and rest of system as well.

The hash rate is GPU only.

 

[Patrick]

Just as a FYI I was getting the same with 1 thread and 2 threads when I spot checked results.

 

[Klee]

Just as a FYI I was getting the same with 1 thread and 2 threads when I spot checked results.

I saw worse performance with two threads no matter what I tried, halved raw intensity, raised it lowered it, tried 4 , 8 and 16 worksize.

So my next thing to do is to reinstall with legacy boot, UEFI apparently wont let a device with unsigned hardware work, so I can try a modded gpu bios.

The only reason I installed windows 10 and Ubuntu was to try the all core turbo boost bios hack but that is not guarantied to work with ES cpu's as some cant boot after trying it.