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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v8.0
by
Jinx99
on 02/12/2016, 13:12:20 UTC
Bus width is only part of the equation. Bandwidth is a better representation.
                 RX480       vs R9 390      vs R9 Fury
Frequency: 2000 MHz       6000 MHz      500 MHz
Interface:   256-bit           512-bit          4096-bit
Bandwidth: 256 GB/s        384 GB/s       512 GB/s

Being that equihash is specifically designed to bottleneck on bandwidth I wouldn't hold my breath for major increases on the RX series...

Setting memclk to 1100 instead 2100 on RX 480 causes only 20% hashrate drop.
Bandwidth is not a boottleneck at all.
Zcash is not like bandwidth-hungry ETH. There's no 100% memory controller load.