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Hi everyone,

This is my first time making a post here, but some of you may know me as the developer of Nevermore miner for x16r / x16s, and creator of one of the first sgminer forks for x16r. I recently had a generous person donate a RX580 to me, and thus was able to give the AMD side some love by making some x16r optimizations for AMD.

After around a week of work, I've made numerous optimizations to the x16r / x16s kernels, and with preliminary testing I'm getting around +20-25% over ace's sgminer (the previous fastest x16r miner).

x16r / x16s average hashrates:
RX580: 8.3 MH/s
Vega56: 13-14 MH/s
Vega64: 14-15 MH/s

xevan hashrates (still in beta; doesn't work with all cards yet):
RX580: 1.8-2.1 MH/s, depending on OC
Vega: N/A (HW errors)

As with Nevermore (which is for Nvidia cards), Avermore (for AMD) has a 1% devfee to support continued work on the miner.

I look forward to hearing your feedback about this new release.

Avermore releases (Download latest release v1.4.1 here) (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/releases)

Getting Started guide (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Getting-Started)

Recommended bat file to start with (see Optimizing Hashrate guide (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Optimizing-Hashrate) for more tips on tuning your system):


Note, if you have a system with more than 6 cards, then you'll have to remove the "-g 2" option since more than 13 mining threads is currently unsupported. Alternatively, you can try splitting the cards between two instances of Avermore by using the -d flag, to circumvent the 13-thread limit. For example, to split a 12-card rig, run one instance with "-d 0,1,2,3,4,5" and another with "-d 6,7,8,9,10,11".

Other useful links:
Source code (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner)
Github wiki pages (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki)
Troubleshooting guide (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Troubleshooting)
Optimizing Hashrate guide (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Optimizing-Hashrate)
HiveOS manual installation (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/HiveOS-Manual-Installation) (to upgrade to latest release before it gets pushed by HiveOS)
smOS installation (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/smOS-Installation)

Thanks brian really glad to see an optimized AMD miner for Raven. I'm dying to get this loaded onto Hive OS as dimafern is currently only using your sgminer fork version which is very slow for AMD cards - can you confirm that version will now cease being supported and effectively replaced with Avermore?

Looking forward to using it !

Yes; my old sgminer fork was made for the RVN AMD bounty, hence the lack of optimization. I will continue my optimization work for AMD cards on Avermore.

Unfortunately, Avermore is not yet on HiveOS, but I made a wiki guide (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/HiveOS-Installation) for how to replace my old sgminer fork manually with Avermore; it should be pretty straightforward. Multiple people have already requested that Avermore be added to HiveOS, and it's on the HiveOS miner wish list (http://forum.hiveos.farm/discussion/435/request-miners-for-adding-to-hiveos-maynery-dlya-dobavleniya-v-hiveos); it should be added soon.

Added to my MegaMiner fork (http://bit.ly/2IXtgSU) :)

Awesome, will give it a try later today.
There are no AMD miners for X17, but it seems similar to X16R with 1 more algorithm. Is it possible to port the optimizations into a separate X17 miner/kernel?

if anyone shares Vega .bat settings , would be glad to appraise.

If you have 18.3.4 drivers installed, you can just set them up like regular AMD gpus.

actually there is  :)

but it's closed source  :-[
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3322332.msg34739892#msg34739892

hopefully brian can make an open source version  ;)

Try starting with the following configuration for Vega (there's some more tips for tuning your settings here (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Optimizing-Hashrate)):


Let me know how it goes :)


That sounds doable; I'll look into it.

I have been running this for about 16 hours and it gives a very nice boost mining X16s.  On a R9 Fury X I was getting ~4 Mh/s on stock settings with -50% power limit - with this new miner I get ~6.4 Mh/s at the same settings and power limit. That's a nice increase indeed. I'll try to test it on some Rx 480 and Rx 570 rigs in the near future.

R: (which I guess shows GPU load) is dropping to 5-10% on some of gpus and later on makes them sick. with -22% pl it showed 10 mh/s on some of healthy GPUs.

My Vega rig is remote, I can't risk and keep it working there for now - not stable :(

Does anyone have suggested OC or power limit settings for RX 580 cards?

@brianmct, could you help me, please, with compilation source for windows https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/issues/5

I personally run 1400 core, stock mem/BIOS, full power on my RX 580. Although, I haven't done much hardware tuning, since this is just on my test / benchmarking rig, which I prefer to have consistent results on for testing optimizations.



Replied on the Github issue.

hi   well i have a problem  evrey few houres when the miner swich from my pool to dev pool   the miner just get stuck and wont recontect to my pool allwayes saying trying to reconect but it wont so i need to close the miner and start it agian .can you please fix it .
beside that it does make 10% more :)

Amazing work Brian, once again! Get some x17 in there so pornhub users can use your miner as well! :)

I have the same issue, gets stuck after switching to dev pool, unusable in current state... stops every couple hours.

Most people using it don't seem to have this issue; seems like it might be a problem with certain pools / network configurations. Trying to gather some more data to debug the issue; if you could provide any of the following info, it would be super useful:

- Pool you're mining on

- Logs with the pool switching issue (Run the miner with "-L log.txt" and DM me the log file)

- OS

Did a fork of this miner https://github.com/KL0nLutiy/sgminer-gm-x16r, must be 1-2% faster

Instead of using your pool url, use it's IP address in the .bat file and see if that fixes the issue.

lol ok dude.

For 1% ?

Sure buddy. (https://github.com/KL0nLutiy/sgminer-gm-x16r/commit/77dd556319b6d3f06f7e83cc8ef7a7c01e02042d#diff-ccb83336fe4e8722c874e79c5c4c4dddL9479) You can get out now.

Actually it is open source and you could change whatever you don't like and compile it  :) And now it easier because you can do it in Visual Studio

Even if only for making it compile in VS, you do deserve credit :)

Haven't tested the miner yet, though...

Does wrapping everything in a VS project and copying other people's kernel work justify completely removing Brian's fee? How would you feel if I removed YOUR fee and put back Brian's? Nobody uses your miner anyway, so I'd rather donate the original author instead of you.

I making it opensource, not like others: copy someones work and making private miners. You could use just Brian's miner or recompile mine with Brian's wallet. I am a very newbie in making miners. It is my first experience. I just want to have a motivation to learning in this area. You are right that almost nobody using my miner. But if even one person will use, I know that my efforts are not in vain.

Add some kernels to my fork: https://github.com/KL0nLutiy/sgminer-gm-x16r/releases/tag/5.5.5-x16r-2, now it is 2-4% faster than previous release

I like this miner, but it's sad that it isn't compatible with mining rental services. Avermore doesn't switch from dev pool to mining rental pool when there's no work on that pool available (doesn't get into idle state).

Is it possible to change the difficulty? I've got an AMD card running Avermore, and Nvidia running RavenMiner. Both these cards get the same hashrate, but because of the pool difficulty, my AMD isn't producing shares. RavenMiner let me override the difficulty, and it's sitting where I want it to. Just need that on this end now.

yiimp type pools (like ravenminer.com) support setting difficulty in the password field with "d=xxx" and usually you don't need to set it in the miner

Thanks for the tip!

Hey everyone,

I just made a new release: Avermore v1.2 (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/releases/tag/v1.2)

Made some major improvements to the Hamsi kernel (+35%), with a 4% improvement in the overall average hashrate.

I'm now getting 7.8-8 MH/s average on my test rig's RX580 (up from 7.5 MH/s).

As always, feedback and reporting of issues is highly appreciated.

Great thank you!
Good to see someone spending time on optimizing X16r for AMD.
Next please optimize AMD Vega :D

strange, but I actually get lower rates with 1.2 on RX480 8G with Uber 3.1 mem timings
(running with  -g 2 -w 64 -X 256 --benchmark)

X16r    Avermore-1.1    8.4 mh
X16r    Avermore-1.2    7.743 mh

X16s    Avermore-1.1    8.366 mh
X16s    Avermore-1.2    7.711 mh

yes vega all the way  / with vega frontair i get 13mh avg  .now i wiil test 1.2 and see for improvment.

Pool-side, I'm getting way under my shown hashrate in Avermore. For instance, currently, Avermore is showing 5.6mh/s but my pool is showing 2.7mh/s. I see this often, though I've never seen my miner go that low. This isn't happening with my Nvidia miners on the same pool.

Check valid share percentage.

I'm not getting any rejections, if that's what you're asking.

Interesting. Can you compare the Hamsi kernel hashrates between 1.1 and 1.2? (run with --benchmark-sequence=BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB). It's possible some of the changes I made caused regressions in cards other than the RX580.

exits immediately when I use --benchmark-sequence=anything (even 0123456789ABCDEF) in both 1.1 and 1.2

edit:
I also noticed that I'm hitting the thermal card power limit and it starts throttling
in 1.1 the GPU clock gets throttled to ~1200Mhz and temperature stays around 80c, so it can probably reach even higher speeds with better cooling
in 1.2 the GPU clock is ~1300Mhz and temperature is ~75c

580 is basically the same card, with slightly higher clocks, so should perform similarly

I'll take a look into why --benchmark-sequence isn't working on Windows.

I did some testing on my test rig, and the results are weird.

The Hamsi kernel, when benchmarked by itself (i.e. repeated 16 times), is indeed 35% faster on 1.2 compared to 1.1 (4.2 MHs -> 5.7 MHs). Also, when I benchmark the rest of the algos (0123456789ACDEF), the hashrates are the same between the two versions (as expected, since the only change was with the Hamsi kernel).

However, when I test running all of the algos (0123456789ABCDEF), v1.1 is indeed slightly faster than v1.2 (7.9 MHs vs 7.7 MHs). I'm a bit stumped right now on why this would be the case. So anyways; if you're getting better results on v1.1, then stick with that version for now. I'll see if I can get a patch to v1.2 to address this issue.

All tests were done with -g 2 -w 64 -X 64, by the way. Found this to be the optimal xIntensity on my RX580. When running with -X 256, v1.2 did beat out v1.1 (7.1 MHs vs 6.8 MHs), but both were slower than with -X 64.

Hi Brian,
Great miner. 

Question, What does the -w 64 command do?  Should we be adjusting this or do you have guidelines on how to adjust it for max hash rate?

Thanks

its worksize, and and it might give you different results with different numbers (can try 128 / 256), but in general 64 usually works best for most algos on amd

Thanks for the tips!

Hi All,
Another question.  I seem to get the highest and most consistent hash rate from 1.0.  My hashrate for 1.1 is significantly lower than 1.0.

I've got a 12 card system with 6-580s, 3-570s, 2-480s, and a R9290.

I obviously do not use -g 2 because of the 12 cards but have tried different intensities from 64 to 512 and 1.0 comes out on top.

Any explanation?

Thanks!

1.1 and 1.0 should be identical when it comes to x16r/x16s; I just added xevan support for RX cards in 1.1.

Make sure when you're comparing hashrates you either average for a few hours, or use the --benchmark flag. X16R hashrates will vary a lot depending on the current block's hash sequence.


If you have 12 cards on the same rig, you can try splitting up the cards into two instances of Avermore (using the -d flag) to get around the 13-thread limit.

On the first instance of Avermore, run with -d 0,1,2,3,4,5 and on the second, run -d 6,7,8,9,10,11. This should allow you to run the miner with -g 2, which should get you better hashrates.

Let me know how it goes.

brianmct any chance you can give us the commands to manually update Avermore in Hive OS to the newer version? Would like to help test it but im terrible in linux

I wrote up a guide for how to manually update Avermore in HiveOS here (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/HiveOS-Manual-Installation).

Your the best! Thanks for that

hi nice pepole 
can someone help set a fail over for this ?  . tried the folowing with no luck :

my bat  : sgminer.exe --gpu-platform=2 --config failover.conf  -w 64 -g 2 -X 256 --no-submit-stale
my conf :
 {
 "pools": [
   {
     "name": "Raven minepool",
     "nfactor": "10",
     "algorithm": "x16r",
     "quota": "1;stratum+tcp://minepool.com:3636",
     "user": "RFBMCANQkBpd6KRiTFizuf59TCZNUv8GbC.VegaFrontier",
     "pass":
   },
   {
     "name": "Raven Yiimp",
     "nfactor": "10",
     "algorithm": "x16r",
     "quota": "1;stratum+tcp://yiimp.eu:3666",
     "user": "RFBMCANQkBpd6KRiTFizuf59TCZNUv8GbC.VegaFrontier",
     "pass":
   },
   {
     "name": "Mining Panda",
     "nfactor": "10",
     "algorithm": "x16r",
     "quota": "1;stratum+tcp://miningpanda.site:3666",
     "user": "RFBMCANQkBpd6KRiTFizuf59TCZNUv8GbC.VegaFrontier",
     "pass":
   }
 ],
 "api-port": "4028",
 "failover-only": true
}

This is a great idea.  Duh!  I could have thought of that. 

I'll give it a try tonight and get back to you.  Thanks!

Maybe try a password like "c=RVN"?

I am sincerely looking forward to using this as my new thing and it’ll be a good thing.

Brian do you think you could optimize for Fiji because im only getting 5.5MH/s with OC at 1150 /500 no bios mod

only 5.5mh/s on 570.. two threads tried 64,96,128,256,512,768,896,1024 various restarts still same hashrate...

sometimes all dip to 3.9 for no reason at all...

.

no  still does not work  any other idea?

Hi, friend. I use Ubuntu (HiveOS).
You can compile your miner for linux? Big thank you!

You can set up this at regular AMDs if you have the 18.3.4 drives in your system.

It is really good to see someone stating the optimised AMD miner for the Raven. 

Does this miner support older hawaii (390/290) and fiji (fury/nano) cards?

Avermore version 1.3 (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/releases/tag/v1.3):

• Significant optimizations to Skein (+80%), Blake, (+65%), and Keccak (+40%), for an overall 3.5-4% increase in hashrate.
• Dev pool switching is now much less disruptive (no longer reinitializes GPU threads). This should fix an issue where GPUs would occasionally go DEAD upon dev pool switch.

I've had people run Avermore on both Hawaii and Fiji cards successfully, so they should both work. You might need to play around with the worksize (-w, default 64) and xIntensity (-X) a little for best performance. See the Optimizing Hashrate (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/wiki/Optimizing-Hashrate) for tips on tweaking these parameters.

Please users, what's your hashrate with RX 570 and ETH bios (usually 1150 core 2050-2150 mem) ? Thanks

Go with a higher clock and keep memory to stock

Thanks, but that's not my question, i'd like to know the hashrate of RX 570 with an ETH bios.

6-8 mh/s

Thanks

What hash range are people seeing with RX580?  I really do not see 7 or 8 for any length of time.   

At stock settings of core and mem, -5 power level, 256 difficulty, no -g option (see below), I'm seeing 6.0 to 7.1. 
I'm going to let it run overnight at difficulty 320 to see where that lands.


Also, with version 1.3, -g 2 does not work for me with my 11 cards when I use the -d option with 6 cards or less.  SGMiner crashes while it's building the bin file.  The -g option did work with 1.2 but I didn't really see an improvement in hash rate.  I'm only running a celeron could that be an issue?

Thanks

Avermore version 1.4: (https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/releases/tag/v1.4)

• Optimizations to whirlpool (+65%), bmw (+50%), and echo (+3%) kernels for an overall 6% speedup in x16

thats like the speed of a 1060 for comparison
1070s get 11mhs and 1070ti like 15

these amd miners need a fully rebuilt and optimized kernel not just a copy paste

you amd miners paying a fee to mine at the same speed as a 1060 need to stop and got mine xmr
 and buy raven if you have to lol

An Rx 570 is comparable to a GTX 1060 as a lower end/mainstream gaming video card. A GTX 1070 is a whole market level higher, both for gaming and mining.

heck no, not on pricing and the performacr on other algos, and what about the 8gb 580s 7 to 8 mhs on raven
is total trash when it can get 32 mhs eth , 950 on xmr

vs 24 max and 500 max for the 1060 6gb card which doesn’t eveb have and 8gb variant.

the 1070 might be higer end but there is a reason 570 and 580s cost $100 more (8gb) than the 1060s.

32 cores vs 36 cores for the 570 580 comparison is not much of a difference.  My 570s nitros havecthe same memory as the 580s and within 1% of the same hash rates given the same clocks or memory straps

face it these coppied x16 kernels are trash , better to mine eth or xmr for now with kernels that were designed for Opencl

How much is a 1070 ? A RX 570 is less than 300€. GTX 1070 is minimum 150€ (conservative figure) more expensive.

The cheapest 6 GB GTX 1060s on newegg are about the same price as the cheapest 4GB RX 580s and about $25 less then the 8Gb RX 480 --- a difference, but not $100 at this point in time.  The GTX 1070 is scarce even at $500 so it's pointless to be comparing it to a RX 580 let alone a Rx 570 right now.

I agree with you that the AMD RX series does "better" on Ethhash, I disagree with comparing video cards from completely different price segments.  Anyways, we aren't mining Ethhash, Cryptonight7, or X16r on our remaining AMD rigs now as there are more profitable options for daily gains.

This is somewhat of an unfair comparison. Nvidia x16r CUDA miners have had years of work put into them in optimizing their individual kernels, while sgminer has been more or less abandoned for the past few years. So, I'm basically starting from scratch in terms of optimizations for AMD. There's a lot of room to cover, since there are 16 different algorithms that need to be optimized, and simply optimizing one of them does not affect the average that much.

The more optimistic way to look at this is that there's a lot more room for improvement for better x16r performance on AMD cards. I've improved the hashrate by around 20% from the next best x16 miner, and 10% from version 1.0 to 1.4. Even with the current performance of Avermore, Raven is one of the most profitable coins to mine on WhatToMine right now for AMD cards. Profitability will go up as the kernels get more optimized.

If you don't like the miner, no one's forcing you to use it. But I would really appreciate it if you didn't insult / dismiss the dozens of hours of work I have put into making x16r and x16s mining better for AMD miners.

thats all Im saying, with the current state of 16x mining its pointless to mine x16 vs other opencl options since the kernels are optimized.  I get the op is trying to fix this but charging a fee for software that is not even fully developed
seems scammy.

Why dont u optmize the kernals and provide performance within 80 % at least of a 1070 or 100% on par with a 1060 before charging a 2% fee

it does but it seems now fiji improved slighly with the latest
I wonder if Brian you could optimize for GCN 2(Hawaii) and GCN3(Fiji) on Xevan?

Have some strange thing going on where every time I boot up the miner I have to delete the .bin file, otherwise it does the "stopped working" windows things.

During test of v1.4 after a few seconds from compiling kernel happened also to me.  Maybe it depends on greedly  OC / UV or too aggressive intensity. Now I have found a stable configuration (probably not the best) and average hashrate has improved compared to v.1.1 (from 0.5 Mh to 1 Mh per card ).

Reread the OP - it's a 1% not 2% fee and if you don't feel this miner is worthwhile then consider that no software is ever "fully developed" and the x16 series might be the only algos that will remain unexploited by FPGAs and ASICs in 2018. AMD cards could be worthless for mining in the next few months if not for a broader range of mining support outside of Ethash and CN.

1% is better than 2% but still high imo, amd will always be kings of xmr
so I xmr will always be am option for amd, it would be nice to have a good xr16 miner for amd
but im not paying any damn fee until its atleast competitive with a 1060 for the rx series

Are you kidding ? If it was that easy, there will be several X16 / X17 miners available. When you work on something and people make money with, you deserve to get paid.

It already is competitive - you get 6-8 Mh/s with a Rx 570-580 and the same for a GTX 1060 3GB-6GB. 

an 8gb 580 is a slight more powerful card than a 1060
with good mem straps and oc a 580 should be like 9 imo

What wrong with xevan for vega's GPU?

People trying to run xevan on Vega's were reporting hardware errors and no submitted shares. It's probably an issue with the new clang-based OpenCL compile stack for Vega cards miscompiling the kernels, but I don't have a Vega card of my own to test it on to try to fix the issue.

I cant run Avermore


Avermore immediately closes after running the startup script
If you have an integrated or Nvidia GPU, you might need to set the OpenCL platform to AMD by setting --gpu-platform=N to 1 or 2
You need to install the MSVC 2017 x86 redistributables if you don't have it installed.
Try changing the set GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=1 to set GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=0 or vice-versa in your run script.


Tried all that, log txt:

[23:17:04] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:17:04] * using Jansson 2.7
[23:17:18] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:17:18] * using Jansson 2.7
[23:19:09] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:19:09] * using Jansson 2.7
[23:19:13] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:19:13] * using Jansson 2.7

Any ideas?

Ideas after you config file. And what GPU model?

How much time you need to understand situation with Vega's if you got a Vega?

Ideas after you config file. And what GPU model?


sgminer.exe -k x16r -o stratum+tcp://us.ravenminer.com:5678 -u myrvnwallet -p worker1  -X 256 (also tried -X 64 same result)

This is a fresh Win10 install updated, redist installed, blockchain drivers XFX Core Black RX580 brand new out of the box with stock bios, installed in the pcie 16x slot...

1st. add after -X256 and look inside when starting miner.
2nd. the miner must compile a kernel for you GPU its may be more than 2-3 minutes up to 5. see  log-x16r.txt
3rd. try without -X256.
And  why you use blockchain drivers? it's does not matter but why? new adrenalin drivers is good performance and more flexible with playing with voltage and overclocks(for me).

Already did in my first post and this is what I got:

[23:17:04] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:17:04] * using Jansson 2.7
[23:17:18] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:17:18] * using Jansson 2.7
[23:19:09] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:19:09] * using Jansson 2.7
[23:19:13] Started avermore 1.4.0
[23:19:13] * using Jansson 2.7


Also tried new Adrenalin drivers, removed the X256... with "pause" as per example.bat gives me: Press any key to continue... if I hit any key just closes and without the "pause" simply closes down.

Thank you for your time helping me on this Kaezar

If you join the Ravencoin community Discord (https://discord.gg/PtEnyvH) I can help you there. Much easier to provide tech support over chat than over BCT ;)

If your mobo has a integrated iGPU that is active you probably need to specify what platform to use, like the Troubleshoot wiki says by adding :
to your bat/sh file.

Thank You! Guys I got it fixed. It was an OpenCL problem, was nothing to do with the miner, just didn't realize that my gpuz was missing the opencl checkmark, now is fixed and mining flawlessly, thank you brianmct for providing a miner for the g'old AMD Troopers.  ;D

got my hands on a few furys nanos , what hash rate do those get ?

I mined with this on one of our gaming rigs (with R9 Fury X) and it got around 7 Mh/s on x16s at stock clocks and 50% power limit. I don't remember what it was on xevan, but I can check it for if you like.

Nice work, good to see some love for AMDs, the hash rate is improving nicely after every release!

nice , why the low power limit tho ?

In most of the algorithms that I have tested the R9 Fury X gets 90% of the hashrate at 50% power as it does at 100% power. I'd rather take 90% performance at 170 watts then 340 watts for just 10% more.  Interestingly enough, it handles almost any game I've run at max settings (1080p) at 50% power too, so I just leave it at that power limit 24/7.

last time i played with eth power limit on my nanos it seems alot slower at 50 percent power lim,ill check zcash results which is what i mine atm

This happens with v1.4

https://imgur.com/JRzScD7 (https://imgur.com/JRzScD7)

One of my card (random one) goes SICK and then DEAD, even if I don't OC any of them... Any idea?
using
sgminer -k x16s -o stratum+tcp://rushhourmining.com:3665 -u RVuwFCFN2t3k2CrqRMjn76cvacT3XZ28tU -p c=REEF -w 64 -X 192

Tried -X 128, -X 192, -X 256 and always one of cards goes SICK and then DEAD...

yeah miner is just not stable, i swiched all 20 of my nanos and a vega rig to it

even with low powertune and intensity , random sick dead cards

Yeah same problem with my vega cards

its been stable for a few days pretty much luck, on the vegas i set fan speed to 3000

the nanos just started to work. lol, powelimit get to -40 on nanos

one rig i had to use x128

I can confirm that I got +8 mh/s with my MSI RX 580 MK2 Armor using stock settings, no bios mod or overclocking. I used these settings : -g 2 -w 64 -X 64  , miner version 1.4
https://i.imgur.com/V9GjWNF.png

-G 2 does not work on systems with more than six cards , whats another option for that ?

2 instances of sgminer

tried that it just crashes

I also had the line -d 0,1,2,3

to try and start the first instance

and the second with -d 4,5.. ?

Avermore miner v1.4.1:

• Optimizations to Echo (+7%) for an overall 1% speedup in x16.
• Added code to automatically select AMD OpenCL platform by default. This means that setting --gpu-platform is no longer required for rigs with integrated graphics or Nvidia cards.
• More sane default parameters. Changed default xIntensity to 256, from a default intensity of 8.

https://github.com/brian112358/avermore-miner/releases/tag/v1.4.1

switched to the other miner fork for now

I'll download the new version and try to test it on one of our rigs in the next couple of days. I'll post results for some Rx 580 8GB GPUs after testing it out.

I used to mine RVN with R9 280x and RX 570 with avermore 1.2 on windows 7. But on windows 10, my RX 570 is not starting at all and declared sick. I tried 1.4 still the same problem but my R9 280x is doing fine.

yeah same here having lots of issues with stability and this is with a powerlim of -25

there is something wrong sometimes with the miner after a dev fee it starts not propperly connecting to stratump and starts using curl commands

please look into this

Hi. brianmct, can you compile linux version with Vega's support?
Now compiled linux release works with vegas with x10 lower hash rate.

Seems to work very well for my on my RX480s in my office PC.

Earnings are higher than MoneroV7 at the moment as well by ~20% on this machine.

how to solve my problem
log:
[18:30:45] GPU 0 Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics hardware monitoring enabled
[18:30:45] ADL GPU 0 is Adapter index 0 and maps to adapter id -144890624
[18:30:45] GPU 0 BIOS partno.: 113-D0000301_101, version: 015.050.000.000, date: 2016/09/23 00:43
[18:30:45] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get
[18:30:45] GPU 1 Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics hardware monitoring enabled
[18:30:45] ADL GPU 1 is Adapter index 6 and maps to adapter id -123984256
[18:30:45] GPU 1 BIOS partno.: 113-D0000301_101, version: 015.050.000.000, date: 2016/09/23 00:43
[18:30:45] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get
[18:30:45] GPU 2 Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics hardware monitoring enabled
[18:30:45] ADL GPU 2 is Adapter index 12 and maps to adapter id -267815872
[18:30:45] GPU 2 BIOS partno.: 113-D0000301_101, version: 015.050.000.000, date: 2016/09/23 00:43
[18:30:45] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get
[18:30:45] GPU 3 Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics hardware monitoring enabled
[18:30:45] ADL GPU 3 is Adapter index 18 and maps to adapter id -82959040
[18:30:45] GPU 3 BIOS partno.: 113-D0000301_101, version: 015.050.000.000, date: 2016/09/23 00:43

my bat config :

I only obtain 100Kh/S on BitSend per rx 580 with this miner

Can you post your settings? You should be able to get about double that hashrate or so that mining Xevan with a Rx 580 based on testing we have done in the past.

Anyone tried this miner on an RX 560 by any chance?

would like to know how to set the following

sgminer.exe  ......... --gpu-fan 80 --gpu-vddc 960 --gpu-engine 1150 --gpu-memclock 1950 --gpu-powertune -5

are this settings correct to set fan, voltage core and memory OC ?

Is there anyway to achieve extranonce subsrcibed? Is it needed?

My 2cts for the community:

My rigs of seven RX 570's (4GB) have been chugging along without failing for about an hour with the following parameters:

-g 2 -X 128 -w 64
Clocks: 1266 core @ 1013mV, 1600 mem @ 900mV

The above can probably be tweaked, but at least I have a seemingly stable ground to stand on.

EDIT: if anyone's got working settings for Vega 64's, please do share!

SGMINER AVERMORE has been added to our Linux mining OS (https://minerstat.com/software/mining-os). Enjoy your mining.

Need optimized for card R9 390 and R9 fury

I just can't get it to work at all with my Vega rig. The sgminer screen stays blank after having created the bin file. Shame.

PS: the other SGminer fork does the same. I wonder what prevents the miners from accessing/starting the GPUs. I did get the "application has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware" message at some point. Not sure WTF Windows is doing...

I have 2 RX570s, 5 RX580s, and one RX vega 56 running in a rig with Avermore. Runs perfectly for about an hour or so, then my vega goes from 11MH/s to 2. I tried restarting gpu with the miner commands, tried restarting the miner altogether, tried disabling and re-enabling the vega gpu in device manager. Nothing works exept restarting the entire rig, then runs fine again for another hour.. then I have to restart again.

Any suggestions?

I'm still using blockchain beta driver bc I get 1000h/s with it per 580 with CN-Heavy. Newer ones do 550 :S and eventhough I put them in compute mode, CAST XMR gives me a warning they're not in compute mode. (I tried the apps that are supposed to switch them.. no luck) Anyways, my point is I have more luck with the BC driver.. so thats what I'm running and hoping it's something else.

Any suggestions?

THANKS!

While the RX570's are chugging along nicely, I gave up trying to get the Vegas to run on Avermore.
They are running absolutely flawlessly with Zawawa's Gateless Gate Sharp. No fuss, no tweaks, no headaches. Brilliant.

EDIT: but slow.

Pool-side, I'm getting way under my shown hashrate in Avermore. For instance, currently, Avermore is showing 5.6mh/s but my pool is showing 2.7mh/s. I see this often, though I've never seen my miner go that low. This isn't happening with my Nvidia miners on the same pool.

Hi Brian,

thanks for your brilliant work on this miner, it is very impressive.

Can you possibly consider to make the upcoming version also for the sonoa algorithm?
projectsono.io
There is a bounty on the AMD miner and from what I can see, it should be fairly easy to include sonoa in your code as it is a variation of x16.

Please see here for the CUDA version ccminer-sonoa and the cpuminer:
https://github.com/zPools?tab=repositories
The sequence of algos is more complex than the x16 variety, but it should be easy as you have all the algos in place anyways.

Thanks for your kind consideration.

Is this still being actively developed?

hi!

Is there anyone here can compile Sgminer for AMD card with new algo. i can pay BTC or ETH

thanks

What sgminer do you want to compile?

Hi! i need to compile sgminer with new algorithm to run with AMD card on windows. I have a source code maybe it's 5.6 sgminer version include algo inside. But i can not compile it to run, since it show error.

I can make it, just write your email or telegram, so I could contact you.

Thanks, so here is my email: tptceo@gmail.com

Hello, I am trying to use your miner to solo mine to a qt wallet and after sometime thinking the wallet has a problem i ran cpu miner with the following command cpuminer-opt-3.8.8.1-windows>cpuminer-sse2 -a x16r -o http://127.0.0.1:61473 -u user -p mypass --no-longpoll --no-getwork --no-stratum --coinbase-addr=walletaddress.
Using this line i get errors from some commands that are not recognised, is their a way to do this?
When I used normal pool mining command with ips changed etc using rpc i was getting json errors and authentification errors and have spent two days googling and trying to find a solution, so it comes down to can sgminer be configured ??
I look forward to reading your reply
 

Where cn i download the nevermore for nvidia?

https://github.com/brian112358/nevermore-miner/releases

What's the link to the latest AMD miner?  (not sure if the ANN page is updated)

Does is run on Windows, what the OS?

Also - what's the best pool?

Does latest Avermore 1.4.1 miner needs newest AMD drivers?

System freezes after 1-2 minutes mining at Suprnova.

70GB pagefile and August 23 blockchain drivers for RX 580 8GB are used. No issues mining ETH with claymore. Total 8 cards.

It runs on Windows.

I got 2.5 Mhz with standard timing,  using some OC and some magic mining  setting up to 3.2 MH/s ... I think not bad performance!
 

dont try! this is old miner and is very buggy. it has not been updated like half a year

Which miner do you recommend?

Is it possible that gpu 0 and gpu 1 have inverse link to sensors?
I mean, I know I'm mining with avermore with my amd 270 gpu1 but the actual readings of my gpu1 are placed on gpu 0.

Image https://i.imgur.com/NiazjFc.png
https://imgur.com/a/Z7ZMVzC

hi i love avermore its a great miner , can someone tell me best settings for a rx480 8gb , im getting 7.2mh on pidgeon coin thanks.

Does it work on R9 290X?

The fastest AMD x16r miner that I know of currently is Kl0nLutiy's fork of SGminer. He's got a thread here, look it up.
It's nothing formidable just yet (x16r could be massively more optimised for AMD hardware) but it's the fastest I found anyway. Well, probably the fastest you could obtain using stone-age SGminer kernels.

Will you be releasing a miner for the new "x16rt" algo?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5065331.0

Today I've begun to use your miner on R9 280 for Ravencoin mining. This card is with Hynix memory (it works only on 1400 Mhz). Hashrate is 3.8-4 mh/s with about 100 watts of power consumption (GPU Core 1000 Mhz, power limit - 20%). Not so bad for such a card!

Would it be more profitable to mine XMR with it?

I have a RX580, which is pretty much the same thing, and I have been tweaking for a few days and I have gotten it hashing at over 10 mh/s.
M
The secret? try GPU threads set at 4, aka -g 4   I have a AMD Ryzen 7 and 32GB ram, oh and i overclocked the GPU core to 1300MHz and the memory clock is not changed (2100).

here is the rest of my config:

"profiles": [],
  "failover-only": true,
  "algorithm": "x16r",
  "device": "all",
  "kernelfile": "x16",
  "xintensity": "256",
  "gpu-threads": "4",
  "temp-cutoff": "95",
  "temp-overheat": "85",
  "temp-target": "80",
  "gpu-memdiff": "0",
  "shares": "0",
  "kernel-path": "/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/bin",
  "api-mcast-port": "4028",
  "api-port": "4028",
  "expiry": "28",
  "failover-switch-delay": "60",
  "gpu-dyninterval": "7",
  "gpu-platform": "-1",
  "hamsi-expand-big": "4",
  "keccak-unroll": "0",
  "log": "5",
  "no-pool-disable": true,
  "no-client-reconnect": true,
  "queue": "1",
  "scan-time": "7",
  "tcp-keepalive": "30",
  "temp-hysteresis": "3",
  "watchpool-refresh": "30"

why dont use teamredminer

i get 11 mh/s on x16r algo
with rx 570 - 4gb stix rog
i have 4 = 44mh/s

Can anyone share the pool address you are mining Ravecoin on? (preferably USA) Thanks!

this miner doesn't support current ravencoin fork.  Ravencoin is no longer x16r.  Ravencoin is now kawpow algo