Minning on old cards

[LuizPauloDamaceno]

Hi all,

I've relived an old Radeon HD5850 Black Edition 1 GB that i have here now using in my personal lab PC. Is there any algo (even in zpool, i have a friend (but in windows) that handle few units of Sol/s nowdays with an Quadro K420, so i think this card can perform better with correct miner) that i can try to mine? If yes, what miner you recommend to me in linux? It seems that all opencl stuff is working well:

clinfo output:

Code:

luiz@damalabs:~$ clinfo
Number of platforms                               1
  Platform Name                                   Clover
  Platform Vendor                                 Mesa
  Platform Version                                OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.3.6
  Platform Profile                                FULL_PROFILE
  Platform Extensions                             cl_khr_icd
  Platform Extensions function suffix             MESA

  Platform Name                                   Clover
Number of devices                                 1
  Device Name                                     AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1)
  Device Vendor                                   AMD
  Device Vendor ID                                0x1002
  Device Version                                  OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.3.6
  Driver Version                                  18.3.6
  Device OpenCL C Version                         OpenCL C 1.1 
  Device Type                                     GPU
  Device Profile                                  FULL_PROFILE
  Device Available                                Yes
  Compiler Available                              Yes
  Max compute units                               9
  Max clock frequency                             765MHz
  Max work item dimensions                        3
  Max work item sizes                             256x256x256
  Max work group size                             256
  Preferred work group size multiple              64

glxinfo output:

Code:

glxinfo -B
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
    Device: AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1) (0x6899)
    Version: 18.3.6
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 1024MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.3
    Max compat profile version: 3.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB
    Total available memory: 2045 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 1023 MB
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10

For now, mine grid tie system will handle it. I'm already have an ethereum rig with 2x 1060 6 GB. This old one is just for fun and curiosity.

Thanks and dont laugh me hahaha

[XUR_TIP]

Throw that useless gpu away or give it out to those kids who still cares about counter strike gaming on pc lol, even with free electricity it still doesn't make any sense

[philipma1957]

Throw that useless gpu away or give it out to those kids who still cares about counter strike gaming on pc lol, even with free electricity it still doesn't make any sense

This says it all.


Basically if your card is not 3gb nvidia = octopus

or 4gb amd = Ron/kapow fuck old cards.


if you want eth a  6gb card is a kind of safe bet.

[JayDDee]

An old card is less power efficient, probably requires an old (unoptimized) miner, which only supports old
algos that have been taken over by ASICs. It will cost more to run than you can earn from mining.

[adaseb]

Well if you really want you can try and mine Bitcoin or Litecoin with it, there are VERY VERY old miner software out there somewhere where you can mine BTC. Most likely you will need to mine for an entire year to maybe earn a penny of BTC or LTC mining. Or if you like playing the lottery you can mine on a solo pool and hope you find a block.

However about 5 years ago, I tried this on an Antminer S3 which at the time was already ancient and wasted like 9 months mining and didn't hit a block. With your 1GB GPU I think it would take maybe 100 times the age of dinosaurs extinsions to find a block, but you never know. You might get lucky and hit a block.

[Williamm07]

An old card is less power efficient, probably requires an old (unoptimized) miner, which only supports old
algos that have been taken over by ASICs. It will cost more to run than you can earn from mining.

Old mining softwares are well optimized, it's just like using HD7970 on claymore miner, do you know how good these AMD cards performs with Claymore miner? The problem here isn't optimization but the card OP is talking about (hd5850 1GB) is way too old for anything, R9 390, 380s are old card but still good for people who have free electricity just like the HD7970 too

[FloridaKid]

Lolz if you are going to talk about a old gpu it should be those with atleast 3gb vram not 1gb cards, they can't do anything than use for light gaming or just display kit