Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)

[btwice]

I've noticed my hash rates recently dropped (AMD rx 580s usually at 27-28MH/s each, now down to 19MH/s each) for unknown reasons, but when I run benchmark mode the rates are back to what I was used to seeing. Is there something benchmark mode is doing that doesn't limit the cards, or is this simply just real world vs benchmark?

Do you updated you gpu drivers? Because in the lastest version you need to enable the compute config in Global Settings > GPU Workload of AMD Radeon Settings.

If you are using Blockchain drivers Aug 23, this step it's not necessary, so you have another issue.

I'm dumb forgot to set a few things in the command line 

[alucard20724]

@Claymore

with current version 10.3 (bug occured in version 10.2 also), with Vega64 and Vega56 cards, i get a 100% reject rate for siacoins from both nicehash and mph.  cards will benchmark fine though.
the 4XX and 5XX cards are fine and don't exhibit this problem and will have shares accepted fine.

i'm using win10 64bit.

[saucedaddy]

Anyone know what combination of dual mining is most profitable i.e. ETH+DCR, ETH+SIA?

[Marvell2]

@Claymore, did you look at the Parity stratum mode? I remember it was expected to be implemented in future updates. Now more ETHash coins are coming which can be mined solo until difficulty increases. Would be good to have stratum mode for Parity.

what other coins ?

[tstempone]

I'm using 5x 1060s 6Gb, Claymore 10.2 and get the "temperature control thread hangs need to restart miner" stuff. Driver version 360.95. Anyone else has this issue and know why? Temps on cards are between 53-58 ^oC.

Check first post of on this page.. you can try -tt 0 as he said to test it. For me, I went back to 10.0.

Can you help me for this error : Temperature control thread hangs, need to restart miner!

My card has temps 62, the miner restart every 2 hours or less, every 20mn this morning

I have this error on claymore 10.2 and 10.3, i don't use previous version.
I haven't this problem with claymore for cryptonight or equihash

I also experienced same issue,
Any idea how to disable the temperature control thread? Thanks

You cannot. It is a driver issue.

I agree, try different drivers if you are sure that hardware is ok. I see this issue on latest Adrenalin drivers on some cards, for example, I cannot make it work stable on a system with stock 1x RX480 + 1x Duo Pro on 17.12.2 drivers, looks like latest drivers are unstable in some configurations.
Or you can specify "-tt 0" to disable temperature/fan control, but probably it will hang in OpenCL call in a few minutes anyway.

I don't think it driver issue, it might compatibility issue with new version of claymore and blockchain driver.

I use blockchain driver and having this peoblem with 10.2 and 10.3 after I went back to 10.0 never have this temperature thread hang again. (all same setting only change 10.3 to 10.0, everything stable for 24 hours, 10.3 give me hangs after 30-60 mins)

Check History.txt:

v10.2
...
- in rare cases ADL API calls can hang, now watchdog checks it as well.
...

So now if ADL hangs, miner will be restarted. In v10.1 and earlier miner will work without temperature control (all related options will stop work too), watchdog will hang too (because it was in same thread). So you can select what behaviour is the best for you: restart miner when ADL hangs (use v10.3) or stop temperature control and related options (use v10.1), but the reason is not in miner anyway.

Thank you for clarify, may I ask if I want 10.3 to operate as 10.0 which command I have to add?

[tstempone]

I really hope there is a way to bypass ADL API check by watchdog in future.

[Claymore]

@Claymore, did you look at the Parity stratum mode? I remember it was expected to be implemented in future updates. Now more ETHash coins are coming which can be mined solo until difficulty increases. Would be good to have stratum mode for Parity.

Not yet, but it's in my todo list.

@Claymore
with current version 10.3 (bug occured in version 10.2 also), with Vega64 and Vega56 cards, i get a 100% reject rate for siacoins from both nicehash and mph.  cards will benchmark fine though.
the 4XX and 5XX cards are fine and don't exhibit this problem and will have shares accepted fine.
i'm using win10 64bit.

I need to know your command line so I can do the same test.

[osnwt]

@Claymore, did you look at the Parity stratum mode? I remember it was expected to be implemented in future updates. Now more ETHash coins are coming which can be mined solo until difficulty increases. Would be good to have stratum mode for Parity.

what other coins ?

To name some, ELLA and PIRL both use ETHash and they recently were pumped a lot. Still they are on the top of WhatToMine list.

I mined ELLA solo with great success (they provide config file for Parity node, so it was matter of minutes to install binary to my small ARM-based board and have a working node).

Another example was Intense Coin (ITNS) using CryptoNote (CryptoNight) algo. I mined it for a couple of days using Claymore's miner with my small farm when it was around 10-20 satoshi. And it resulted 1.5 months later in few thousand USD being pumped to 700 sats... And it's just a beginning, since ITNS is only (yet) on a single small exchange. But they have a promising roadmap.

It is expected to see more coins based on ETHash. While not all have bright future, they still can be used to mine early and then HODL and sell in few months. It usually makes 1000-10000% profit if you are an early bird :-)

[Harry5555]

Does anybody know what a r9 390 hashrate is on stock settings?

[garybeng]

Does anybody know what a r9 390 hashrate is on stock settings?

30Mhash. Not affected by epoch.

[Harry5555]

Does anybody know what a r9 390 hashrate is on stock settings?

30Mhash. Not affected by epoch.

Thank you for fast reply. Do you think the r9 390 is more profitable than the gtx 980?

[garybeng]

Does anybody know what a r9 390 hashrate is on stock settings?

30Mhash. Not affected by epoch.

Thank you for fast reply. Do you think the r9 390 is more profitable than the gtx 980?

I am running 2xR9 390 Asus Strix OC Gaming 8gb. Stock ( GPU Clock at 1050MHz and Memory Clock at 1500MHz) at 30MH/s. If you tune with Afterbuner, can achieve 31MH/s with 1100MHz and Memory Clock at 1500MHz. Did not try to go higher cos I want to keep temp below 75deg. Only issues with the R9 390 is temp max at about 75deg and wall power consumption is about 300W.
Hashrate is definitely higher than the GTX980. What is the hashrate for GTX980?

[Harry5555]

Does anybody know what a r9 390 hashrate is on stock settings?

30Mhash. Not affected by epoch.

Thank you for fast reply. Do you think the r9 390 is more profitable than the gtx 980?

I am running 2xR9 390 Asus Strix OC Gaming 8gb. Stock ( GPU Clock at 1050MHz and Memory Clock at 1500MHz) at 30MH/s. If you tune with Afterbuner, can achieve 31MH/s with 1100MHz and Memory Clock at 1500MHz. Did not try to go higher cos I want to keep temp below 75deg. Only issues with the R9 390 is temp max at about 75deg and wall power consumption is about 300W.
Hashrate is definitely higher than the GTX980. What is the hashrate for GTX980?

Are you running stock clocks? Also thanks for the reply. I know GTX 980 got lower hashrate in Ethash however if we consider zcash how much does r9 390 make there?

[garybeng]

Does anybody know what a r9 390 hashrate is on stock settings?

30Mhash. Not affected by epoch.

Thank you for fast reply. Do you think the r9 390 is more profitable than the gtx 980?

I am running 2xR9 390 Asus Strix OC Gaming 8gb. Stock ( GPU Clock at 1050MHz and Memory Clock at 1500MHz) at 30MH/s. If you tune with Afterbuner, can achieve 31MH/s with 1100MHz and Memory Clock at 1500MHz. Did not try to go higher cos I want to keep temp below 75deg. Only issues with the R9 390 is temp max at about 75deg and wall power consumption is about 300W.
Hashrate is definitely higher than the GTX980. What is the hashrate for GTX980?

Are you running stock clocks? Also thanks for the reply. I know GTX 980 got lower hashrate in Ethash however if we consider zcash how much does r9 390 make there?

Did not try mine ZCash. I mine only Ethereum. My R9 390 running at 1100MHz (stock 1050MHz) and Memory Clock at stock 1500MHz.

[osnwt]

Original firmware. ETH pool.

Sapphire 390
Sapphire 390X
PowerColor 390X
PowerColor 390X
PowerColor 390X
PowerColor 390X

31.4 Mh/s
31.7 Mh/s
33.1 Mh/s
33.1 Mh/s
33.1 Mh/s
33.8 Mh/s - bought 4, but this one has lower stock GPU/mem, so at the same clocks has better timings and higher rates.

74° 48%
73° 51%
52° 25%
52° 25%
53° 25%
53° 25%

[alucard20724]

@Claymore
with current version 10.3 (bug occured in version 10.2 also), with Vega64 and Vega56 cards, i get a 100% reject rate for siacoins from both nicehash and mph.  cards will benchmark fine though.
the 4XX and 5XX cards are fine and don't exhibit this problem and will have shares accepted fine.
i'm using win10 64bit.

I need to know your command line so I can do the same test.

EthDcrMiner64.exe -r -1 -mport 13333 -epool daggerhashimoto.usa.nicehash.com:3353 -ewal imnottelling -epsw x -esm 3 -allpools 1 -allcoins 1 -dpool sia.usa.nicehash.com:3360 -dwal stillnottelling -dpsw x -dcoin sc -dcri 40 -platform 1

i get sia rejects on miningpoolhub also, ethereum are accepted.   Only sia gets rejected on vega56/64 cards

i get the rejects with blockchain drivers and with 17.12.2 drivers (also 12.11.x drivers) for the vega cards.

the 4xx and 5xx cards are fine.

[dougBTC]

Hello,

Temperature and fan speed are only reporting for GPU0, but I have 8 identical RX580 GPUs.  Win 10, 17.12.2 and 17.2.1 tested.

Here's a screen shot of what I'm seeing.. https://i.imgur.com/QgJoRvz.jpg

Anyone else experiencing this?  Is there a fix?

Thank you!

[garybeng]

Hello,

Temperature and fan speed are only reporting for GPU0, but I have 8 identical RX580 GPUs.  Win 10, 17.12.2 and 17.2.1 tested.

Here's a screen shot of what I'm seeing.. https://i.imgur.com/QgJoRvz.jpg

Anyone else experiencing this?  Is there a fix?

Thank you!

You have to go to your AMD Radeon Setting/Global Setting/ and DISABLE CROSSFIRE option.
Then, you will see all 8 temp and fan reported on the screen.

[dougBTC]

Hello,

Temperature and fan speed are only reporting for GPU0, but I have 8 identical RX580 GPUs.  Win 10, 17.12.2 and 17.2.1 tested.

Here's a screen shot of what I'm seeing.. https://i.imgur.com/QgJoRvz.jpg

Anyone else experiencing this?  Is there a fix?

Thank you!

You have to go to your AMD Radeon Setting/Global Setting/ and DISABLE CROSSFIRE option.
Then, you will see all 8 temp and fan reported on the screen.

They are in 'compute' mode which disables crossfire.  I don't even see the crossfire option in radeon settings after switching to compute.

Thanks for trying to help.

[osnwt]

Temperature and fan speed are only reporting for GPU0, but I have 8 identical RX580 GPUs.  Win 10, 17.12.2 and 17.2.1 tested.
Here's a screen shot of what I'm seeing..
Anyone else experiencing this?  Is there a fix?

I had similar issues when using either Intel GPU enabled and set as primary, or connecting to PC via RDC (not using TeamViewer). After update to latest Claymore's miners, the issue with Intel GPU has gone for me.

The reason is (probably) that miner detects the 1st graphics subsystem and gets its temps. If it is an embedded graphics, you see single card. But for mining it uses another API which does not mix AMD/NVIDIA cards with embedded graphic. So it uses all cards, but temperature may be from another source.

You may try to enable/disable on the BIOS level embedded graphics, so your primary adapter is PCIe card and no embedded GPU exist in system settings. And use real monitor instead of RDC to check. This usually helps.