Hi Fellow bitcointalk members,
Hope you all are doing well. I have recently purchased a new laptop with Core i5 (8th Gen) and Nvidia Mx150 graphics card. Even though I am veteran in trading, I am new in mining and never tried to explore the mining opportunity because I never had a great piece of hardware. However, with my newly purchased laptop, I decided to try it and installed minergate software because it looked easy to operate!
While I am trying to mine ETH through the minergate software, the maximum hashrate I am getting is around 412 KH/s using 7 cores of my CPU. See the screenshot below,
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFACnIuy.png&t=663&c=P0rrGB2nA6NvOQ)
However, when I am trying to mine XMR with the same configuration, I am only getting 80 H/s speed. Please see the below screenshot,
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FvhKzFdi.png&t=663&c=mQ4wx4MTM3nlDQ)
Why I am not getting the same speed as ETH mining while using the same 7 cores of my CPU? Can anyone please help me understand? I have tried to search Google and it seems like it is due to different mining algorithm, but not sure! Also can anyone suggest me a profitable coin to mine with the above mentioned system configuration? Your help will be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Avikz