Open Source ZEC (ZCash) GPU Miner AMD & NVidia (up to 45 sol/s on RX480)

[Marvell1]

This is a OpenCL fork of CUDA John Tromp's miner.

Github repository: https://github.com/eXtremal-ik7/xpmclient/tree/version/zcash
Current release: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yo56dwlqnm0dndh/zcashclient-0.1.0.tar.gz?dl=0
OS Supported: Windows, Linux (binaries for Ubuntu 16.04)
Drivers: Catalyst 16.xx or amdgpu-pro 16.30 recommended

GPUs supported: AMD & NVidia. Optimal choice AMD Polaris GPU RX470 & RX480 with custom ROM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1584617.0

Radeon RX470 17.2 sol/s
Radeon RX480 18.5 sol/s

Other GPUs
GeForce 750Ti - 8,5 sol/s

Pool mining:

Miner uses custom binary protocol first time implemented in xpmclient (Primecoin GPU miner). Working pool instance: http://coinsforall.io/#!/coin/ZCASH

To start mining:
 - Put your Z-addess to config.txt (need ZCash client installed, online wallet or exchange with ZCash support):

server = "coinsforall.io";
port = "6668";

# Your ZCASH payout address (z-addr)
address = "zthTb2ToG5kuAc11Ni6NxoYjoxQdEr2XvST7XEdLvmHG9k7kotEcwYCaAn1SH4zRdPoXn9kNeFm8CQo k9SNtNgn8d9WcdTK";

 - Configure your GPUs (edit corefreq, memfreq, powertune and fanspeed parameters)
 - Run zcashgpuclient in Linux or zcashgpuclient.exe in Windows
 - Put you address to 'Your Address' field on web site for monitoring workers and payments

Pool system: PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares); accounting procedure uses all your shares received during last hour.

Pool now configured for public ZCash testnet until 28 October when mainnet starts

@eXtremal couple of things , thanks for releasing the miner, its not the fastest but it works great and is easy to use , sometimes that trumps speed.
-you pool fee is too high, I plan to mine at your pool but 4% seems a tad high, 2% would bring you a lot more money in the long run becase people would pay.
-you need to implement cloudlfare or some sort of DDOS protection or you pool will not be up for long I can guarantee the big cloud mining opps will DDOS you to hell.

[snakey]

Whichever the program displays, I forgot. Maybe its Sol/s

They are the same. It's preferred to refer to it as Sols or Sol/s to avoid confusion.

Actually the above pdf is saying that there is a difference.

From what I understand if your getting 100sol/s its really 50h/s.

Can anyone confirm this?

[snakey]

This is a OpenCL fork of CUDA John Tromp's miner.

Github repository: https://github.com/eXtremal-ik7/xpmclient/tree/version/zcash
Current release: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yo56dwlqnm0dndh/zcashclient-0.1.0.tar.gz?dl=0
OS Supported: Windows, Linux (binaries for Ubuntu 16.04)
Drivers: Catalyst 16.xx or amdgpu-pro 16.30 recommended

GPUs supported: AMD & NVidia. Optimal choice AMD Polaris GPU RX470 & RX480 with custom ROM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1584617.0

Radeon RX470 17.2 sol/s
Radeon RX480 18.5 sol/s

Other GPUs
GeForce 750Ti - 8,5 sol/s

Pool mining:

Miner uses custom binary protocol first time implemented in xpmclient (Primecoin GPU miner). Working pool instance: http://coinsforall.io/#!/coin/ZCASH

To start mining:
 - Put your Z-addess to config.txt (need ZCash client installed, online wallet or exchange with ZCash support):

server = "coinsforall.io";
port = "6668";

# Your ZCASH payout address (z-addr)
address = "zthTb2ToG5kuAc11Ni6NxoYjoxQdEr2XvST7XEdLvmHG9k7kotEcwYCaAn1SH4zRdPoXn9kNeFm8CQo k9SNtNgn8d9WcdTK";

 - Configure your GPUs (edit corefreq, memfreq, powertune and fanspeed parameters)
 - Run zcashgpuclient in Linux or zcashgpuclient.exe in Windows
 - Put you address to 'Your Address' field on web site for monitoring workers and payments

Pool system: PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares); accounting procedure uses all your shares received during last hour.

Pool now configured for public ZCash testnet until 28 October when mainnet starts

@eXtremal couple of things , thanks for releasing the miner, its not the fastest but it works great and is easy to use , sometimes that trumps speed.
-you pool fee is too high, I plan to mine at your pool but 4% seems a tad high, 2% would bring you a lot more money in the long run becase people would pay.
-you need to implement cloudlfare or some sort of DDOS protection or you pool will not be up for long I can guarantee the big cloud mining opps will DDOS you to hell.

hehe that sounds so dirty for other companies to attack

[snakey]

Ok, so whats the final verdict?

which gpu's or cpu's?

Want to start buying.

[Marvell1]

This is a OpenCL fork of CUDA John Tromp's miner.

Github repository: https://github.com/eXtremal-ik7/xpmclient/tree/version/zcash
Current release: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yo56dwlqnm0dndh/zcashclient-0.1.0.tar.gz?dl=0
OS Supported: Windows, Linux (binaries for Ubuntu 16.04)
Drivers: Catalyst 16.xx or amdgpu-pro 16.30 recommended

GPUs supported: AMD & NVidia. Optimal choice AMD Polaris GPU RX470 & RX480 with custom ROM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1584617.0

Radeon RX470 17.2 sol/s
Radeon RX480 18.5 sol/s

Other GPUs
GeForce 750Ti - 8,5 sol/s

Pool mining:

Miner uses custom binary protocol first time implemented in xpmclient (Primecoin GPU miner). Working pool instance: http://coinsforall.io/#!/coin/ZCASH

To start mining:
 - Put your Z-addess to config.txt (need ZCash client installed, online wallet or exchange with ZCash support):

server = "coinsforall.io";
port = "6668";

# Your ZCASH payout address (z-addr)
address = "zthTb2ToG5kuAc11Ni6NxoYjoxQdEr2XvST7XEdLvmHG9k7kotEcwYCaAn1SH4zRdPoXn9kNeFm8CQo k9SNtNgn8d9WcdTK";

 - Configure your GPUs (edit corefreq, memfreq, powertune and fanspeed parameters)
 - Run zcashgpuclient in Linux or zcashgpuclient.exe in Windows
 - Put you address to 'Your Address' field on web site for monitoring workers and payments

Pool system: PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares); accounting procedure uses all your shares received during last hour.

Pool now configured for public ZCash testnet until 28 October when mainnet starts

@eXtremal couple of things , thanks for releasing the miner, its not the fastest but it works great and is easy to use , sometimes that trumps speed.
-you pool fee is too high, I plan to mine at your pool but 4% seems a tad high, 2% would bring you a lot more money in the long run becase people would pay.
-you need to implement cloudlfare or some sort of DDOS protection or you pool will not be up for long I can guarantee the big cloud mining opps will DDOS you to hell.

hehe that sounds so dirty for other companies to attack

Its a fact of the mining industry now man sad but its the internet they can hide behind their bots and the SEC and other agencies don't give a F about digital currencies yet so its a risk reward thing, no risk at all

[Marvell1]

Ok, so whats the final verdict?

which gpu's or cpu's?

Want to start buying.

Defeninatly buy GPUs  , I just tried a high end I7 6800 cpu with 12 cores and 32gb of ram and it only gets 16 sols (using the nicehash miner) vs a rx 470 that gets 17 sols

I heard there is a better CPU miner though

[Za1n]

Ok, so whats the final verdict?

which gpu's or cpu's?

Want to start buying.

Defeninatly buy GPUs  , I just tried a high end I7 6800 cpu with 12 cores and 32gb of ram and it only gets 16 sols (using the nicehash miner) vs a rx 470 that gets 17 sols

I heard there is a better CPU miner though

I'd agree with buying GPUs at this point. While improvements have been made in CPU performance, I think there is a lot more room for improvements to be made on the GPU side of things. Also you can have the best of both worlds. By running that 12 core CPU of yours on a 6-7 GPU rig, you can use 8-10 of those cores for dedicated mining and leave the other 2-4 cores idle to process the GPU parts.

[swminer26]

20.9-21.4 sols on my 1070 FTW  

[mikewetminer88]

Ok, so whats the final verdict?

which gpu's or cpu's?

Want to start buying.

Defeninatly buy GPUs  , I just tried a high end I7 6800 cpu with 12 cores and 32gb of ram and it only gets 16 sols (using the nicehash miner) vs a rx 470 that gets 17 sols

I heard there is a better CPU miner though

I'd agree with buying GPUs at this point. While improvements have been made in CPU performance, I think there is a lot more room for improvements to be made on the GPU side of things. Also you can have the best of both worlds. By running that 12 core CPU of yours on a 6-7 GPU rig, you can use 8-10 of those cores for dedicated mining and leave the other 2-4 cores idle to process the GPU parts.

For a 3770 non-k, I ran 7 threads CPU miner with Claymore GPU mining ETH on while I was using the PC for internet browsing. No lag on claymore. I havent test on GPU mining zcash yet.

[ivcelmik]

Fury -22 Sol/s with 6 cards 132 Sol/s with stock settings

[Velgelm]

My GTX 960 - 10 sol/s

[restless]

hm, can't connect to pool?! 5 minutes staying on "connecting"

[snakey]

Ok, so whats the final verdict?

which gpu's or cpu's?

Want to start buying.

Defeninatly buy GPUs  , I just tried a high end I7 6800 cpu with 12 cores and 32gb of ram and it only gets 16 sols (using the nicehash miner) vs a rx 470 that gets 17 sols

I heard there is a better CPU miner though

Yes there is someone getting 30sol/s in the zcash forum.

Not sure if it will be released.

Whats thet best GPU with low cost?

rx470 does around 150w I think?

[Tmdz]

Ok, so whats the final verdict?

which gpu's or cpu's?

Want to start buying.

Defeninatly buy GPUs  , I just tried a high end I7 6800 cpu with 12 cores and 32gb of ram and it only gets 16 sols (using the nicehash miner) vs a rx 470 that gets 17 sols

I heard there is a better CPU miner though

Yes there is someone getting 30sol/s in the zcash forum.

Not sure if it will be released.

Whats thet best GPU with low cost?

rx470 does around 150w I think?

I think 470 is the best and will probably receive good optimization in the future.  I measured it at 80 watts undervolted at the wall.  Going to be hard to beat that.

[aagert]

Why speeds on 7970 / R9 280X are so low? 8-9 sol/s! I know that they are old, but they have 384-bit memory bus, and memory bandwidth of those cards - about 260GB/s - is on par with that for RX480 (256GB/s on stock). I thought that Equihash is memory bandwidth-hard algo, no?
What are the chances that we'll see speed improvements for old cards?

[adaseb]

Why speeds on 7970 / R9 280X are so low? 8-9 sol/s! I know that they are old, but they have 384-bit memory bus, and memory bandwidth of those cards - about 260GB/s - is on par with that for RX480 (256GB/s on stock). I thought that Equihash is memory bandwidth-hard algo, no?
What are the chances that we'll see speed improvements for old cards?

They are very good cards but this algo is not optimized for the older Southern Island AMD cards.

[snakey]

Ok, so whats the final verdict?

which gpu's or cpu's?

Want to start buying.

Defeninatly buy GPUs  , I just tried a high end I7 6800 cpu with 12 cores and 32gb of ram and it only gets 16 sols (using the nicehash miner) vs a rx 470 that gets 17 sols

I heard there is a better CPU miner though

Yes there is someone getting 30sol/s in the zcash forum.

Not sure if it will be released.

Whats thet best GPU with low cost?

rx470 does around 150w I think?

I think 470 is the best and will probably receive good optimization in the future.  I measured it at 80 watts undervolted at the wall.  Going to be hard to beat that.

This is my first rig so hope you can answer a few noob questions.

if your saying its only 80 watts then I can run 6 cards (480 watts) on a 1000w power supply?

[tiCeR]

Could someone please help me?

I downloaded the binary and edited the config. I have 4x R9 280x.

I installed the radeon-crimson-15.12-with-dotnet45-win7-64bit driver and i also tested it already with the latest one.

This is my config:

Code:

server = "coinsforall.io";

port = "6668";


# Your ZCASH payout address

address = "zthTb2ToG5kuAc11Ni6NxoYjoxQdEr2XvST7XEdLvmHG9k7kotEcwYCaAn1SH4zRdPoXn9kNeFm8CQok9SNtNgn8d9WcdTK";


# You can give this machine a custom name

# Computer name is used as default

# name = "worker_name";


# Platform:

#  "amd": AMD GCN cards

#  "nvidia": NVidia Maxwell cards

platform = "amd";


# GPU crash handling (properly untested feature):

# 0 - do nothing

# 1 - close miner application

# 2 - reboot system (need superuser rights)

onCrash = "0";


# - The following settings have one entry per GPU

# - If you have more than 4 just add more entries or leave it as is to use defaults

# - All entries must be separated by commas and set between double quotes


# 0 = don't use device

# 1 = use device

devices =        ["1", "1", "1", "1"];


# work sizes

worksizes = ["256", "256", "256", "256"];


# threads

threads = ["8192", "8192", "8192", "8192"];


# -1 means don't change

corefreq =       ["1000", "1000", "1000", "1000"];

memfreq =        ["1500", "1500", "1500", "1500"];

powertune =      ["-1", "-1", "-1", "-1"];

fanspeed =       ["80", "80", "80", "80"];

After starting the miner the first time it makes this and hang up:



This is what the error tells that could be helpfull to detect the problem :/ ?

  C:\Users\ethereum\AppData\Local\Temp\WER933A.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
  C:\Users\ethereum\AppData\Local\Temp\WERC439.tmp.appcompat.txt
  C:\Users\ethereum\AppData\Local\Temp\WERC44A.tmp.mdmp

after doing the second start it tells this:



Same happens with standard settings without changing config. I also installe OpenCL 2.0 to get sure all is installed.

The same happens after the try to delete the equiw bin. It generated a new one and crashes on second start the same again like on top.

Does anyone have a solution for me? I am on Windows 7

[giagge]

I dont understand to configure config.txt for my rig .

I have 2 nvidia gtx 1070 on windows 10 x64 .

Help pls  .

[clintar2]

Wow, this is a mess to compile. What distro do you build this on?