I installed the new version and tested the new kernel.

I can see huge changes to 7.22 e.g. I could to reduce core clock by 125 mhz but the reduction did not save any power off the wall. seems like any higher core clock is cut in mhash and power. when I reach the sweetspot and get the same mhash than before (with now 125 mhz less core clock, slightly before max mhash) I need the same power off the wall. I also reduced core voltage from 755 to 750 what gives me some watts out of the wall, but the power consumption at the same mhash is the same than in 7.22. so for me 7.22 was the big difference, not 8.0.0
btw, I´m Using a bios modded asus 5700 in hiveos with 20.30 drivers.

I think I now can go lower than 750 with core voltage what could save some more watts for sure.....that would be great. I can see that you reach same mhash with less core clock....but what counts for me is watt / mhash and that´s nearly the same (at the same voltage settings).

what about the memory allocation? do you use the huge free vram of the 8gb cards as long as eth dag size is that low and fits almost twice into the ram? (phoenix has a kernel called turbo where he can load dag file twice into ram)