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Title: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: andrew2k on March 11, 2017, 04:37:32 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: tromp on March 11, 2017, 05:38:31 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: andrew2k on March 11, 2017, 05:43:54 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


Nvidia truly beats AMD when it comes to mining Zcash, but lacks efficiency in Monero and Ethereum (except for those special cases where people have developed some very efficient but private Nvidia miners).


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: winner999 on March 11, 2017, 05:51:43 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


Nvidia truly beats AMD when it comes to mining Zcash, but lacks efficiency in Monero and Ethereum (except for those special cases where people have developed some very efficient but private Nvidia miners).

NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5  With these settings it's more like 140-150W. I have 2 x 1070GTX and with -150 CORE and 70% POWER LIMIT I have about 110W/card @ 385sols/s.


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: Pasutinmeur on March 12, 2017, 03:18:35 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


Nvidia truly beats AMD when it comes to mining Zcash, but lacks efficiency in Monero and Ethereum (except for those special cases where people have developed some very efficient but private Nvidia miners).

NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5  With these settings it's more like 140-150W. I have 2 x 1070GTX and with -150 CORE and 70% POWER LIMIT I have about 110W/card @ 385sols/s.

Even 385/110 = 3.5 J/W. That is still more efficient than the AMD cards.

Is that power number from the wall?


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: Kompik on March 12, 2017, 07:46:15 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


Nvidia truly beats AMD when it comes to mining Zcash, but lacks efficiency in Monero and Ethereum (except for those special cases where people have developed some very efficient but private Nvidia miners).

NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5  With these settings it's more like 140-150W. I have 2 x 1070GTX and with -150 CORE and 70% POWER LIMIT I have about 110W/card @ 385sols/s.

Even 385/110 = 3.5 J/W. That is still more efficient than the AMD cards.

Is that power number from the wall?

You can get about 420 sols @ 105W from the wall (i have couple of brands of 1070 and this applies to all of them, do not have 8+6pins though). Both of these comments are innacurate. Firstly you cannot get 450 sols at 100w with ANY 1070. Secondly it is bad underclocking the core for equihash algos.


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: wck on April 05, 2017, 06:32:07 AM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


Nvidia truly beats AMD when it comes to mining Zcash, but lacks efficiency in Monero and Ethereum (except for those special cases where people have developed some very efficient but private Nvidia miners).

NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5  With these settings it's more like 140-150W. I have 2 x 1070GTX and with -150 CORE and 70% POWER LIMIT I have about 110W/card @ 385sols/s.

Even 385/110 = 3.5 J/W. That is still more efficient than the AMD cards.

Is that power number from the wall?

You can get about 420 sols @ 105W from the wall (i have couple of brands of 1070 and this applies to all of them, do not have 8+6pins though). Both of these comments are innacurate. Firstly you cannot get 450 sols at 100w with ANY 1070. Secondly it is bad underclocking the core for equihash algos.

I'm getting around 140 sols @ 65W on 1050ti.    However if you include the computer it is running closer to 75W. 

140 sols / 75W ==> 1.87 sols / W  ... not that great.   

It can probably be optimized a bit more but for equihash the 1070 is beating it hands down, more the double the efficiency.   


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: Amph on April 05, 2017, 07:04:08 AM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


Nvidia truly beats AMD when it comes to mining Zcash, but lacks efficiency in Monero and Ethereum (except for those special cases where people have developed some very efficient but private Nvidia miners).

NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5  With these settings it's more like 140-150W. I have 2 x 1070GTX and with -150 CORE and 70% POWER LIMIT I have about 110W/card @ 385sols/s.

you are doing something wrong, i have 416 sol /110 watt or less


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: PovertyByte on April 05, 2017, 07:12:35 AM
I can get 415 Sol/s on 50% power with one of my 1070's and the other is below 400 Sol/s

That is about 93 watts with my PSU efficiency but not wall tested

The higher GTX 1070 can hit +250mhz core between the factory and manual OC, and the memory can do +800mhz if I wanted


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: Yutard on April 05, 2017, 07:42:45 AM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


1070 is also about twice the price.


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: un4given on April 05, 2017, 08:49:00 AM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


1070 is also about twice the price.

I doubt hard its twice the price. I bought my GTX 1070 in europe for 335€ and RX 480 costs 220-240€ dependent on the brand and model. So 100€ more for better efficiency and resale value.


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: Amph on April 05, 2017, 10:09:05 AM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


1070 is also about twice the price.

I doubt hard its twice the price. I bought my GTX 1070 in europe for 335€ and RX 480 costs 220-240€ dependent on the brand and model. So 100€ more for better efficiency and resale value.

335? what model? i'm not aware of such a low price for a 1070 maybe reference, but they have shitty colling, i would not bother


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: zer0k on April 05, 2017, 02:09:44 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


1070 is also about twice the price.

It's better to compare 1060 6GB to RX480 then as they are similar in price :)

My 1060 cost $229 and is capable of 330+ sol/s @ 93% power limit, 79 degrees, 1900 core / 9000 mem (+100/+700), 46% fan speed which is basically silent.
I can push more if I increase the temp and power limits and run the fan @ 100% of course :D


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: zer0k on April 05, 2017, 02:20:06 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


1070 is also about twice the price.

I doubt hard its twice the price. I bought my GTX 1070 in europe for 335€ and RX 480 costs 220-240€ dependent on the brand and model. So 100€ more for better efficiency and resale value.

335? what model? i'm not aware of such a low price for a 1070 maybe reference, but they have shitty colling, i would not bother

You can find new non-reference 1070's for US$319 easily enough - http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-GeForce-GTX-1070-DirectX-12-ZT-P10700I-10P-8GB-256-Bit-GDDR5-PCI-Express-3-/292041166887?hash=item43ff029027 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-GeForce-GTX-1070-DirectX-12-ZT-P10700I-10P-8GB-256-Bit-GDDR5-PCI-Express-3-/292041166887?hash=item43ff029027)


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: Farstdury on April 05, 2017, 02:42:14 PM
As you can guess from the title, I've made a benchmark list for Equihash. I've gathered info from bitcointalk and the Zcash/Zclassic chats/forums. The list is not yet complete (it will most likely never be since the miners get updated so often and plenty of new cards are coming up this year).

Much of the data is being hard to get without first hand experience but I managed to gather some, this is the list at the moment: https://zdeveloper.org/wiki:zcash_mining_benchmarks
I'm waiting for corrections and updates. Maybe it will helps some people decide which cards to get next time they assemble a rig.  :)

Most power efficient (Sol/Joule) cards:

AMD        RX480   Sapphire Nitro+ OC   8GB   305/140 = 2.2
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5

Shockingly, Nvidia is more than twice as efficient...


1070 is also about twice the price.

I doubt hard its twice the price. I bought my GTX 1070 in europe for 335€ and RX 480 costs 220-240€ dependent on the brand and model. So 100€ more for better efficiency and resale value.

335? what model? i'm not aware of such a low price for a 1070 maybe reference, but they have shitty colling, i would not bother

You can find new non-reference 1070's for US$319 easily enough - http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-GeForce-GTX-1070-DirectX-12-ZT-P10700I-10P-8GB-256-Bit-GDDR5-PCI-Express-3-/292041166887?hash=item43ff029027 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-GeForce-GTX-1070-DirectX-12-ZT-P10700I-10P-8GB-256-Bit-GDDR5-PCI-Express-3-/292041166887?hash=item43ff029027)

You are lucky. I live in another place.


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: unique83 on January 11, 2018, 06:55:04 AM
I have Gigabyte 1070 WF2 8Gb and i am doing 450 Sol/s with 115W. Core is at approx. 1700 Mhz and memory on 4200 MHZ. Power limit 65%


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: indianminer256 on January 11, 2018, 08:32:51 AM
Im running a GTX1070 to mine zcash @ 455 Sols with Core @1750mhz and Memory@4200 mhz, 100% power


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: crackzyee on January 11, 2018, 10:28:27 AM
you can add to your table

Mining zcl on dstm 1080ti zotac extreme core edition 11gb avg 785 sol/s @270W core around 2012, memory around 5300


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: MagicSmoker on January 11, 2018, 12:47:34 PM
All results using dstm 0.5.7; core/mem clocks are as-reported values in MSI AfterBurner. No real tweaking of voltages or power limits employed.

Zotac Mini GTX 1050 Ti - 190 Sols/s - 1835/3800
Asus GTX 1060 3GB - 305 Sols/s - 2000/4151
Unknown GTX 1080 FE - 540 Sols/s - 1898/4714

The real surprise here is the relatively good performance of the 1050 Ti, a card that is all but written off most of the time.




Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: mrp1 on January 16, 2018, 04:51:54 PM
Just building new rig...  Win 10 w/DSTM Miner..

1070 TI - 542 Sol, +150 core. +750 mem, 3.28 Sol/W

Not to shabby....


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: tamatebakokun on January 16, 2018, 05:22:48 PM
so I get an important information here. for zcash, I have to build a rig with nvidia cards. I will try to spend a little for gtx 1050 ti for the beginning of my journey to make some coins. thank you for nice thread.


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: hottstepper on February 05, 2018, 12:29:50 PM
Just building new rig...  Win 10 w/DSTM Miner..

1070 TI - 542 Sol, +150 core. +750 mem, 3.28 Sol/W

Not to shabby....


I can confirm the same. Mining ZCL. One PC(no rig) with Asus Strix 1070ti 8GB.
Zcash CUDA Miner 0.3.4b with Windows10

1070TI 530-545 Sol/s
with +100 core and +725 memory

Unfortunately I can get any better than 30.6MH/s on ETH but have read about 31.5 possible.
Who cares, mining ZCL is anyway better since higher hashrate in terms of ROI compared with chart.


Title: Re: Zcash/Zclassic/Equihash GPU Benchmarks
Post by: mindrust on March 24, 2018, 01:32:29 PM
NVIDIA    GTX 1070   -                           8GB   450/100 = 4.5  With these settings it's more like 140-150W. I have 2 x 1070GTX and with -150 CORE and 70% POWER LIMIT I have about 110W/card @ 385sols/s.

I run my 1070 as the the same settings you got (nearly, xcept core) and I am having around 470sols/s. %70 Power Limit, +150Core / 600 Memory, Win7, Nicehash. Pulling around 155watts from the wall. (Only 1 GPU+Mobo)

Isn't it better to have your core overclocked for equihash? 385sols/s looks like a bit low.

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