Genoil's ZEC miner: AMD ZCash miner for Windows - 0.6

[markus124]

@Genoil

Thanks for miner, On 12 rigs it works fine, 1 rig not so..

All rigs windows 8 x64, 280x

This is what happens when I run the .bat



Then when I run it as admin..



It did ask for mscvr120 and mscvp120.dll which I downloaded manually.

Cheers

remove the ".exe" it worked for me for some reason and try suprnova too. I'm running windows 8 too.

bat file

genoil -c zec.suprnova.cc:2142 -u 1234.x -p x

[TR8888]

@Genoil

Thanks for miner, On 12 rigs it works fine, 1 rig not so..

All rigs windows 8 x64, 280x

This is what happens when I run the .bat



Then when I run it as admin..



It did ask for mscvr120 and mscvp120.dll which I downloaded manually.

Cheers

remove the ".exe" it worked for me for some reason.

bat file

genoil -c zec.suprnova.cc:2142 -u 1234.x -p x

Thanks for the suggestion, It didn't work unfortunately.

[deadsix]

Genoil just dropped v 0.5

[klondike_bar]

Excellent work, Genoil.
My 280X is doing ~ 25 S/s with occasional peak at 30S/s.
Running at 1050/1500.  GPU usage 76%, temp 55'c in Sapphire Trixx.

EDIT:  It seems solution rate is picking up after a while: consistenly over 27S/s now.

my undervolted r9 270x cards are doing about 22 Sol/s each, so a 280x should see 28-30

[Termie]

little Feedback for 0.4.2

+ first version which starts and runs at my RIG, older versions hangs directly after startup.
+ very good hashrate, similar to CoinsForAll pool Silent Army Windows miner 0.2.2, but definitely lower power consumption

- not useable with CoinsForAll pool
- not later than ~3 minutes, and all of my four cards are crashing/mining tasks are dead/0 sol.

My conclusion: rough diamond at the moment.

[doktor83]

so any tips for work size and intensity ? Are those really doing something ?  
After some 10 minutes the hashrate droped, on some cards to 0 , on some it halfed.. Is that fixed?

[toptek]

 question is can i use a modded bios or is that  one of the reasons for errors , mine are at stock everything atm and have yet to crash with 0.4.2 were crashing a lot with a modded bios but i all so lose some H or solutions .  just wondering ? . i did read i think he said the next up date uses less memory will that mean we can run cpu cores  without blogging down the GPU ? . i don't care either way .

this can drop

zec-sa#0: 26.8S/s   zec-sa#1: 26.2S/s   zec-sa#2: 29.0S/s   total: 81.9S/s

to

60 solutions , i turn off cores it goes back up .

[Genoil]

so any tips for work size and intensity ? Are those really doing something ? 

no not really but it keeps you guys occupied  

well the lower intensity values could be interesting when trying to dual mine with this in coop with another mining program. worksize does next to nothing, but should be in place when more sophisticated kernels become available.

[Walrusbonzo]

Im using my 7950 shappire rig of 6 gpus getting a media of 16 hashes per gpu. is this good for this type of gpu??
Is there any ways of use 99% of my gpu usage, im stuck at around 85%?

Thanks for the help if u could.  

If the GPU is sat between 80~85% as your graph shows it suggests that they're memory bandwidth/latency limited. Most 7950/7970 will happily do atleast 1500MHz, start there. Failing that you probably want to use a custom BIOS with tighter timings, usually copying a memory strap from 1250/1375 to 1500 does the trick. When I used to have 7950s I was using tighter timings(The Stilt's) and memory clock was around 1700MHz. This provided excellent performance for scrypt and Eth type crypto.

Kind of slow mine does 20-25 sol/s with genoils miner 0.4.2 on stock settings

Now im moving on average 19.5 but reach 25 seems too much. I can only increase the memory clock from 1250 to 1575.

Btw thanks walrus. One more question u guys think genoil is the better miner right now? I have issues with all the miners but i dont know if there's a better option out there. Claymore is going to release his own zcash miner hope it works great.

You may find the best trade off of performance and stability is found with the memory clocked to 1500mhz exactly, not one mhz higher. This is because on stock cards, at 1501mhz+ you trigger a different memory strap and therefore it can be slower. For my modified cards I copied the strap for 1500mhz to all the higher straps, that way I never lost any performance going higher than 1500mhz.

IMO, currently Genoil's miner is hands down the best.

[liomojo1]

Please make a release so we can use right away!

[toptek]

Please make a release so we can use right away!

it's here https://github.com/Genoil/ZECMiner/blob/master/releases/genoil-zec-miner-0.5.zip

[molitar]

why can't I get this to work on an R9 280x?

Ok figured it out.. I had to start it on that card only first.. once the bin file created successfully with hashing I than added all cards.

[antantti]

Binaries only, sorry.

So until the big boys are ready with their 100Sol/s cannons, you can mine some ZEC with this piece of shit. Highly unstable but pretty fast thanks to @mrb's SilentArmy kernels. yay

I like this piece of shit and the selling speech. Will tip when this rally ends.

[du44]

clGetDeviceIDs at the 480 8GB(Sapphire) with modified bios at 0.5 version, tried all commands, not one not helped... But excellent work at the Radeon 390

[nerdralph]

I'm going to keep it brief this time  :

https://github.com/Genoil/ZECMiner (planning to keep the reade up to date on this one!)

Binaries only, sorry.

So until the big boys are ready with their 100Sol/s cannons, you can mine some ZEC with this piece of shit. Highly unstable but pretty fast thanks to @mrb's SilentArmy kernels. yay

I think getting to 100sols is going to be a lot tougher than getting to 50 was.  At least on the 256-bit AMD cards.  On Hawaii cards I think you'll see 80-90 on cards that can manage a 1.4Ghz memory clock, while the Rx 480 will max out around 60.  The inability of AMD GCN to efficiently do IO in less than 64-byte chunks is the issue.

[molitar]

I have really weird results.

Using OpenCL platform: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
gpu#0: Tahiti
gpu#1: Ellesmere
gpu#2: Tonga

zec-sa#0: 27.6S/s       zec-sa#1: 30.6S/s       zec-sa#2: 22.2S/s       total: 80.3S/s
zec-sa#0: 24.2S/s       zec-sa#1: 29.0S/s       zec-sa#2: 22.6S/s       total: 75.7S/s
zec-sa#1 submitting solution
zconn submitted and accepted.


So my R9 280x is almost getting as much as my R9 480x?  My R9 380x is getting less than the 280x.  Why is my RX 480 getting suck poor results?

[TR8888]

@Genoil

Thanks for miner, On 12 rigs it works fine, 1 rig not so..

All rigs windows 8 x64, 280x

This is what happens when I run the .bat



Then when I run it as admin..



It did ask for mscvr120 and mscvp120.dll which I downloaded manually.

Cheers

Fixed this,

The rig had corrupt msvcr120.dll & msvcp120.dll files.

[liomojo1]

You rock man! 25-6 from 280x is amazing! Thank you!

[Walrusbonzo]

Awesome work with this Genoil, getting almost 40 sol/s with my RX480s

[jenifive]

Can i mine CPU and GPU at the same time?