EWBF's CUDA Zcash miner

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

Has anyone experienced Micron memory failure to mine?
I have a single 1070 that doesn't mine when in stock values, have to lower gpu/mem to make it mine. I have installed latest MSI Armor OC 8GB vbios fix but still no luck...

Sadly the MSI armor serie has a very bad reputation saw alot of post of people complaining about performance

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[Amph]

hey guys , i can tell you that over 500 sol on a gtx 1070 Zotac mini i have reached yesterday, i think i saw yesterday on my card 525 sol by core clock 195 and and memory at 602. on full Power mode 112 % no problem you can reach 500 sol easy :-)

consumption is probably 180watt with that oc, not worth it

[Kompik]

hey guys , i can tell you that over 500 sol on a gtx 1070 Zotac mini i have reached yesterday, i think i saw yesterday on my card 525 sol by core clock 195 and and memory at 602. on full Power mode 112 % no problem you can reach 500 sol easy :-)

consumption is probably 180watt with that oc, not worth it

Even then I dont think its possible for gtx 1070. I have three brands of 1070s and none of them can go beyond 470.

[xPwnK]

305 sol/s with gtx 970 . At least for gtx 970 ewbf 0.1.0b miner is faster than eqm 1.0.4c.

at what target power level?.

GTX 970, specially if you have the G1 Gaming version is an overclocking beast, but at top power you will need a nuclear reactor to feed it hehe   

110%, I have cheap electricity so I'm just trying to get as much sol/s as possible.

[jiggytom]

hey guys , i can tell you that over 500 sol on a gtx 1070 Zotac mini i have reached yesterday, i think i saw yesterday on my card 525 sol by core clock 195 and and memory at 602. on full Power mode 112 % no problem you can reach 500 sol easy :-)

any other settings? Linux?>

[aaronsace]

Edit: RESOLVED - will be linked into the next release of MultiPoolMiner

There appears to be a really odd bug with the miner.

A few of us are trying to capture the output of the miner to read the hashrate. It works fine when connecting to coinmine but when connecting to miningpoolhub we cannot capture the screen.

I'm completely baffled as to why we can't capture the screen output when connecting to miningpoolhub.

Please can you look into the issue as this cannot be linked into MultiPoolMiner for MiningPoolHub if we cannot capture the hashrate.

This is the PowerShell script to capture the output (copy and paste it into PowerShell to test it yourself):

Code:

Start-Transcript "C:\EWBF\test.txt"
$pinfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$pinfo.FileName = "C:\EWBF\miner.exe"
$pinfo.Arguments = "--server us-east.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com --user lyolyalya.1 --pass x --port 17023"
$pinfo.UseShellExecute = $false
$pinfo.CreateNoWindow = $true
$pinfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
$pinfo.RedirectStandardError = $true
$pinfo.WorkingDirectory = "C:\EWBF"

$process = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process
$process.StartInfo = $pinfo
$process.Start() | Out-Null
for($i=0;$i -lt 1000;$i++)
{
    $i
    $process.StandardOutput.ReadLine()
}
$process.Kill() | Out-Null
Stop-Transcript

If you change the arguments to coinmine then it works:

Code:

$pinfo.Arguments = "--zec.coinmine.pl --user lyolyalya.1 --pass 111 --port 7007"

We checked miningpoolhub and hashes are being received even though there is no output.

[induktor]

There appears to be a really odd bug with the miner.

A few of us trying to capture the output of the miner to read the hashrate. It works fine when connecting to coinmine but when connecting to miningpoolhub we cannot capture the screen.

We checked miningpoolhub and hashes are being received even though there is no output.

--boff worked on linux, not sure if windows is the same, probably not, but it's easy to test 

[wll1rah]

500 H/s from single graphic card hitted!

Looking for that for a while.

Anyway Claymore has updated his miner, up to 6-8%. In fact it's time to update EWBF.

Our cards are  already faster than AMD at less power, but I'll always take more speed
- improved speed for most cards, up to 8% (depends on card model). About 340H/s on stock 390X, 255H/s on stock RX480, 320H/Fury x on stock Nano.

seems that the 1060 is the new king here, $200 for 300 sol at 70watt, not even the 1070 is better

I do 400 @ 92w but the price is half, so yeah pretty much what you say, king

not sure anymore, it seems only the 6gb can do 300 sol, reports from users are not very clear, it depend on the model i guess, and the wattage is unknown

but the 6GB don't cost half of a 1070, more like 1/3 less

Maybe I can clear it up a little (too bad i didn't film it when i did the tests yesterday)
Rig used: AM1M-S2H with APU 5350, PSU sentey 80 Plus (superflower desing) 850W, bronce-gold efficiency, no HDD (flashdrive) linux 1404

Power: 18W
with card Gigabyte GTX 1060 (6GB) G1 Gaming Version 1 (and no, it does not whine at all hehe), At 80W TPL,  runing EWBF 010b, 98% utilization
Power: 105W  (so 105 - 18 = 87W)

measured at the wall with two meters, a direct type (industrial panel meter trueRMS, that gets W, VA, A, V) and with a top of the line appa trueRMS  clamp meter same measure exactly).

the card is extremely efficient, i think it's better in terms of efficiency compared to GTX 1070 but, at least here in my country, the price doesn't make sense.

Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming costs here: 675 US Dollars
Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming (6GB version) costs here: 506 US dollars

so, because of the price here 1070 is better, but looking at international prices, it would be better 1060 i think.

i can do tests with same rig with 1070's and 970s if anyone's interested on that data.
i have those test equipments because it's what i do for a living (power electronics)  

It's your cpu/ mobo setup
AM1 setup is only good for AMD and OpenCL
Cuda offloads the confirmations to the cpu and doesn't fully use the gpu like the OpenCL miners

[wll1rah]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

[Amph]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

[aaronsace]

There appears to be a really odd bug with the miner.

A few of us trying to capture the output of the miner to read the hashrate. It works fine when connecting to coinmine but when connecting to miningpoolhub we cannot capture the screen.

We checked miningpoolhub and hashes are being received even though there is no output.

--boff worked on linux, not sure if windows is the same, probably not, but it's easy to test  

Thanks. We're using Windows.

[wll1rah]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

GTX 1080      2560   20   530 sol/s   26.5
GTX 1070      1920   15   430 sol/s   28 2/3
GTX 1060      1280   10   300 sol/s   30
GTX 1060 3GB   1152    9   273 sol/s   30 1/3
I was thinking more of how it compares with per compute core performance.
and the largest jumps are between the GTX 1060 and 1070.  If I had numbers it would also be between the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti even if I gave the GTX 1050 Ti the 10% increase it should be around 156 sol's and the GTX 1050 would be around 138

[Amph]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

GTX 1080      2560   20   530 sol/s   26.5
GTX 1070      1920   15   430 sol/s   28 2/3
GTX 1060      1280   10   300 sol/s   30
GTX 1060 3GB   1152    9   273 sol/s   30 1/3
I was thinking more of how it compares with per compute core performance.
and the largest jumps are between the GTX 1060 and 1070.  If I had numbers it would also be between the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti even if I gave the GTX 1050 Ti the 10% increase it should be around 156 sol's and the GTX 1050 would be around 138

core clock should be considered it will be much higher

[bensam1231]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

GTX 1080      2560   20   530 sol/s   26.5
GTX 1070      1920   15   430 sol/s   28 2/3
GTX 1060      1280   10   300 sol/s   30
GTX 1060 3GB   1152    9   273 sol/s   30 1/3
I was thinking more of how it compares with per compute core performance.
and the largest jumps are between the GTX 1060 and 1070.  If I had numbers it would also be between the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti even if I gave the GTX 1050 Ti the 10% increase it should be around 156 sol's and the GTX 1050 would be around 138

core clock should be considered it will be much higher

This is silly, there is no way they're going to release the 2XXX series before the 1080Ti, there are rumors of that already. That and they don't reuse the same chips for the next generation like AMD. 2XXX series will more then likely have HBM2 as well, not GDDR5x. Whoever made this really has no idea what they're talking about and no place making something like this.

[cristipuc]

Any suggestion for 1070 Brand/Model ? Thank you and appreciate any suggestion.

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

GTX 1080      2560   20   530 sol/s   26.5
GTX 1070      1920   15   430 sol/s   28 2/3
GTX 1060      1280   10   300 sol/s   30
GTX 1060 3GB   1152    9   273 sol/s   30 1/3
I was thinking more of how it compares with per compute core performance.
and the largest jumps are between the GTX 1060 and 1070.  If I had numbers it would also be between the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti even if I gave the GTX 1050 Ti the 10% increase it should be around 156 sol's and the GTX 1050 would be around 138

Woah thanks for the numbers mate ! Are you running @ 50% tdp ? Also from what i see, with the current 1060 3GB price (199€, 0.72€/sol) , it could be the best card for mining zcash i think, but i wonder if zcash were to die, if there would be any alternative since they do pretty poorly elsewhere maybe the good compromise would be the 1060 6GB (250€ 0.83€/sol) but for longevity, resale value, alternatives, the 1070 is still interesting... 420€ 0.97€/sol, cruel dilemma.

[induktor]

It's your cpu/ mobo setup
AM1 setup is only good for AMD and OpenCL
Cuda offloads the confirmations to the cpu and doesn't fully use the gpu like the OpenCL miners

Yes most of my rigs use the AM1M-S2H motherboard with AM1 5350 APU low power (25W TDP) quadocore, i use this because of the power efficiency, low cost, and compatibility, is by far the most stable mobo i have used for mining.

only for three GPUs obviously the rigs that has 5 GPU uses the H81 Pro BTC with G3250 intel but costs three times more,and uses twice the power, so yes you win in density but loose in simplicity and power efficiency, so in the end is the same.

So far the APU is doing fine with three GTX 1070, at around 70% load (zcash), 30% load (ethereum) GPU utilization is around 97% so, not bad for such a tiny processor

However you have a point, as new algos tend to use more the CPU than before, so, for newer miners i'm planning on using FM2+ APUs, i never use intel unless i have no choice.

[wll1rah]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

GTX 1080      2560   20   530 sol/s   26.5
GTX 1070      1920   15   430 sol/s   28 2/3
GTX 1060      1280   10   300 sol/s   30
GTX 1060 3GB   1152    9   273 sol/s   30 1/3
I was thinking more of how it compares with per compute core performance.
and the largest jumps are between the GTX 1060 and 1070.  If I had numbers it would also be between the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti even if I gave the GTX 1050 Ti the 10% increase it should be around 156 sol's and the GTX 1050 would be around 138

Woah thanks for the numbers mate ! Are you running @ 50% tdp ? Also from what i see, with the current 1060 3GB price (199€, 0.72€/sol) , it could be the best card for mining zcash i think, but i wonder if zcash were to die, if there would be any alternative since they do pretty poorly elsewhere maybe the good compromise would be the 1060 6GB (250€ 0.83€/sol) but for longevity, resale value, alternatives, the 1070 is still interesting... 420€ 0.97€/sol, cruel dilemma.

Yes, it is very cruel,  The 1060 6GB get's very little more in other ago's and with dagger hash there isn't any or shouldn't be any.  I get about 23Mh ish with the 3GB and still has over a GB of room for dag growth.  The 1070 is your long term card at the moment.  I haven't tried 50% TDP, I'm using 80% TDP but this new version is way more stable as I could only do 85% before v0.1.0b

[m1n1ngP4d4w4n]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better  

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

GTX 1080      2560   20   530 sol/s   26.5
GTX 1070      1920   15   430 sol/s   28 2/3
GTX 1060      1280   10   300 sol/s   30
GTX 1060 3GB   1152    9   273 sol/s   30 1/3
I was thinking more of how it compares with per compute core performance.
and the largest jumps are between the GTX 1060 and 1070.  If I had numbers it would also be between the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti even if I gave the GTX 1050 Ti the 10% increase it should be around 156 sol's and the GTX 1050 would be around 138

Woah thanks for the numbers mate ! Are you running @ 50% tdp ? Also from what i see, with the current 1060 3GB price (199€, 0.72€/sol) , it could be the best card for mining zcash i think, but i wonder if zcash were to die, if there would be any alternative since they do pretty poorly elsewhere maybe the good compromise would be the 1060 6GB (250€ 0.83€/sol) but for longevity, resale value, alternatives, the 1070 is still interesting... 420€ 0.97€/sol, cruel dilemma.

Yes, it is very cruel,  The 1060 6GB get's very little more in other ago's and with dagger hash there isn't any or shouldn't be any.  I get about 23Mh ish with the 3GB and still has over a GB of room for dag growth.  The 1070 is your long term card at the moment.  I haven't tried 50% TDP, I'm using 80% TDP but this new version is way more stable as I could only do 85% before v0.1.0b

Yeah that's what i thought too, more expensive @start, but in the long term i think you're better going with 1070 but still a 1060 3GB rig sound interesting and could ROI fast but in this price range when you look @ versatility you're better to go with RX470/RX480 probably, even if the watt needed for a 1060 is really low, if you have expensive electricity like me, it could be very nice too, again what a dilemma lol. Oh 80% then your numbers are with stock clock ?

[wll1rah]

if the 1060 does 300 sol at 87 watt it's not better than a 1070 that can reach 400 sol at 100watt

if it was the 3GB version that i would say it is better because of the price but the 6gb is expensive

My 1070's does 365 Sol/s at 90W (no OC) so yes, you probably right about it, 1070 is still better 

I don't have a 3GB version to test, but i will never buy one anyway, because in a year from now it would be very difficult to sell, because nobody will want a 3GB card anymore, even the GTX 970 G1 Gaming which is a fantastic gpu, is difficult to sell well nowadays because of the memory.

if i can get my hands on one i will do the tests and report.

they are put back to P0 max state so for my 1911 core 4004 memory

this is my exact reason why i ignored the 3gb version, for resale value

also it's on the way the new pascal refresh, 2070 and 2080 model they are faster than current one but same price, another reason not to have a dead card that cannot be resold

If they release those two GPU's with GDDR5X it will suffer the same issues as the 1080, assuming they haven't figured out the latency issue.

the current hashrate of a 1080 is better than the 1070, there is no issue with zcash but with dagger for what i understood

GTX 1080      2560   20   530 sol/s   26.5
GTX 1070      1920   15   430 sol/s   28 2/3
GTX 1060      1280   10   300 sol/s   30
GTX 1060 3GB   1152    9   273 sol/s   30 1/3
I was thinking more of how it compares with per compute core performance.
and the largest jumps are between the GTX 1060 and 1070.  If I had numbers it would also be between the GTX 1060 3GB and GTX 1050 Ti even if I gave the GTX 1050 Ti the 10% increase it should be around 156 sol's and the GTX 1050 would be around 138

Woah thanks for the numbers mate ! Are you running @ 50% tdp ? Also from what i see, with the current 1060 3GB price (199€, 0.72€/sol) , it could be the best card for mining zcash i think, but i wonder if zcash were to die, if there would be any alternative since they do pretty poorly elsewhere maybe the good compromise would be the 1060 6GB (250€ 0.83€/sol) but for longevity, resale value, alternatives, the 1070 is still interesting... 420€ 0.97€/sol, cruel dilemma.

Yes, it is very cruel,  The 1060 6GB get's very little more in other ago's and with dagger hash there isn't any or shouldn't be any.  I get about 23Mh ish with the 3GB and still has over a GB of room for dag growth.  The 1070 is your long term card at the moment.  I haven't tried 50% TDP, I'm using 80% TDP but this new version is way more stable as I could only do 85% before v0.1.0b

Yeah that's what i thought too, more expensive @start, but in the long term i think you're better going with 1070 but still a 1060 3GB rig sound interesting and could ROI fast but in this price range when you look @ versatility you're better to go with RX470/RX480 probably, even if the watt needed for a 1060 is really low, if you have expensive electricity like me, it could be very nice too, again what a dilemma lol. Oh 80% then your numbers are with stock clock ?

The only problem with the RX470/ 480 is in order to get good numbers you have to mod the bios which voids the warranty otherwise it's as good or worse than the GTX 1060 3GB.  you can pretty much forget about anything but ETH/ XMR/ or ZEC with the RX 480 it's TDP ranges from 150 to 225W and the RX 470 is better prom a power and price point of view.  The RX 470 is competitive with the GTX 1060 3GB on ETH and beats it hands down in XMR while ZEC goes to GTX 1060 3GB, power wise GTX 1060 wins, Price wise RX 470 wins although this gap is closing