Thanks for the tip.  I'll look into the difficulty!  Yeah, i know about the throttling, but the fans aren't even kicking onto high gear!  When it gets too hot the damn thing sounds like a jet about to take off!  I have yet to hear that when mining KawPow algo.  GPU is sitting at a stable 65C, which as far as GPUs go, isn't too bad.  My desktop, which I leave mining 24x7 on an rx580 hovers in the low to mid 70's.  I will never understand how MacOS works!  Personally, i'd rather  not even have the damn thing...but i needed it for iOS dev work...so there ya go!

Created an account to say thanks!!!!

Got this up and running on a 2019 macbook pro with Radeon Pro 5300M 4GB.

KawPow seems to fluctuate wildly between a reported hashrate of 0MH/S and 16MH/S on Unmineable, though the cmd output shows a constant 3.5mh/s

Have never noticed my fan kick on overdrive, so i'm not sure if it could get higher, and the system is doing something to pre-emptively throttle it.  Any thoughts?

I had previously had it mining on Prohashing using their ethereum-lite ethash, and was getting right around 14mh/s on that, and i'd hear the fans spin up quite frequently.


in Pools, i set "algo": "kawpow"

and in kawpow, i set "index" : 1, because otherwise it tried to use the integrated gpu as well.

Thanks again!