Litecoin Mining - Radeon R9 280X hardware comparison

Litecoin Mining – Radeon R9 280X hardware comparison

A lot of the magic in Litecoin mining is finding the best combination of hardware and cgminer sweet spot. I have done testing on most R9 280X GPUs and for easy reference, i would list the hashrate with link to tutorials on configuration for each of the card. This list would be updated from time to time when i obtain more cards to tweak. At the moment, it will mostly consist of R9 280X cards.

Litecoin Mining Hardware Comparison

1. Asus R9 280X

Hashrate: 750KHash/sec
Clock/Memory: 1050/1500MHz
Power: 1.137V
Tutorial: Coming soon

2. Gigabyte R9 280X

Hashrate: 730KHash/sec
Clock/Memory: 1055/1500MHz
Power: 1.075V
Tutorial: Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X sweet spot for 730KHash/sec

3. HIS R9 280X

Hashrate: 730KHash/sec
Clock/Memory: 1050/1500MHz
Power: 1.068V
Tutorial: HIS Radeon R9 280X sweet spot for 730KHash/sec

4. MSI R9 280X

Hashrate: 730KHash/sec
Clock/Memory: 1050/1500MHz
Power: 1.200V
Tutorial: Coming soon

5. PowerColor R9 280X

Hashrate: 760KHash/sec
Clock/Memory: 1090/1500MHz
Power: 1.100V
Tutorial: PowerColor Radeon R9 280X sweet spot for 760KHash/sec

6. Sapphire R9 280X

Hashrate: 760KHash/sec
Clock/Memory: 1090/1500MHz
Power: 1.100V
Tutorial: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X sweet spot for 760KHash/sec

7. Gigabyte WF3 7950

Hashrate: 650KHash/sec
Clock/Memory: 1155/1420MHz
Power: 1.090V
Tutorial: How to optimize Gigabyte WF3 7950 for 650KHash/sec

Risto Siltasalmi

February 1, 2014 at 4:45 pm

First of all, thanks for your blog! It’s been of great help for me to get started on mining!
Any news on the Asus tutorial for 750kH/s?

Bill Plein

February 17, 2014 at 9:14 pm

Looking forward to seeing the ASUS details. I’ve been unsuccessful getting a stable undervolt even at 1.144v. Wouldn’t mind dropping a few watts from my rig.

shadowin1126
February 18, 2014 at 4:34 pm

If you are having difficulties in getting a stable undervolt with your ASUS card, you can leave it at default. For the ASUS is the coolest 280X card that i have experienced, where other cards’ temperature would go quite high when i started OC.

Andras Barna

March 2, 2014 at 11:15 pm

cant wait for the asus tutorial.. i have 280xdc2t my config:

“intensity” : “13”,
“scrypt” : true,
“shaders” : “2048”,
“thread-concurrency” : “8192”,
“worksize” : “256”,
“gpu-threads” : “2”,
“device” : “1”,
“gpu-engine” : “0,1050”,
“gpu-memclock” : “0,1500”,
“gpu-powertune” : “0,-20”

i get “only” around 710kh/s
tried *everything* what i can find on google