EWBF's CUDA Zcash miner

[tntc4]

where to see the result of zcash mining? i need info to compare each gpu . please
how much the sols for :
980, 980ti, 1070, 1080, 1080ti ?
anyone can share it please

http://proudminers.hopto.org/tools.html

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[oup59]

where to see the result of zcash mining? i need info to compare each gpu . please
how much the sols for :
980, 980ti, 1070, 1080, 1080ti ?
anyone can share it please

Zcash Pool has aBenchmark tab on their site. You can filter for GPU and Coin you want to see what others have done so far.

May give you a baselien to decide on your GPU.

I have a MSI 980Ti. It makes 430-440 Sol/s for Zec. I just started with it so looking to optimize as much as I can.

[QuintLeo]

For the most options, try CoolBits 31 - 32 sets a single bit that isn't USED by anything AFAIK, 31 sets ALL the bits below that one.

[EWBF_]

Ewbf_ any update on a new release with better API? Hope all is well on your end!

Hi, yes new release coming soon. What new api features do you want to see?

[erk]

Hi, yes new release coming soon. What new api features do you want to see?

failover, so if a pool is not responding it tries a secondary pool you have nominated.

[sublimus]

where to see the result of zcash mining? i need info to compare each gpu . please
how much the sols for :
980, 980ti, 1070, 1080, 1080ti ?
anyone can share it please

http://proudminers.hopto.org/tools.html

Those figures are out of date taken from ver. 0.1.0

1070s do 450-480 easy.

[Heguli97]

where to see the result of zcash mining? i need info to compare each gpu . please
how much the sols for :
980, 980ti, 1070, 1080, 1080ti ?
anyone can share it please

http://proudminers.hopto.org/tools.html

Those figures are out of date taken from ver. 0.1.0

1070s do 450-480 easy.

1080ti does >750Sol/s easily at 260watts

[sublimus]

Hi, yes new release coming soon. What new api features do you want to see?

failover, so if a pool is not responding it tries a secondary pool you have nominated.

- Ability to stop/start a card by pressing the number key of the card.

- I would like the log to indicate the time of the processes.

- I would like --pec to monitor risers wattage. (if a sensor exist)
+----+-------+---------------------+----------------+
|GPU | Sol/w | Total Watt | Sol/s | Riser wattage |
+----+-------+------------+-------+----------------+
| 0   | 2.57   |    174w    |  451   |    xxw           |
+----+-------+-----------+--------+----------------+
| 1   | 2.63  |    186w    |  482    |    xxw           |
+---+-------+------------+--------+----------------+

[pchampn]

Hello: I am currently mining Zcash with 2x GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition cards and wanted to know if the results I get are typical.


Using this miner and nicehash pool and I am getting an average speed of 755 Sol/s (for 2 cards) and average earning of 0.0035 BTC/day (~$8/day). I haven't changed any settings in the cards or the miner and wonder how I can get the best results and whether mining through Nicehash is the best option.

Appreciate the advice of fellow miners!

[akuci]

Hi,

Sorry if it's not strictly about the miner itself, but I have some questions.
So... I purchased stuff for 5 rigs, quality stuff, but my problem is there is no AMD cards, and the shortages are likely to continue till the end of summer. Now, I'm considering buying GTX GPU's, more exactly GTX 1060's, but I have a dilema here. Will the 3GB version mine like 6GB? I heard ZCash does not store the DAG file on card, like ETH miners do, so basically you can mine with 1GB cards too. Also, I want to pick up the cheapest ones, sadly that's the Gigabyte MINI ITX ones... The room will have an AC, so that's not a problem I think, but do anyone here recommend that crap for 24\7 load? Also, if ZCash is not going to profitable anymore, what are my options, except selling them and buying some AMD cards?

[Heguli97]

Hi,

Sorry if it's not strictly about the miner itself, but I have some questions.
So... I purchased stuff for 5 rigs, quality stuff, but my problem is there is no AMD cards, and the shortages are likely to continue till the end of summer. Now, I'm considering buying GTX GPU's, more exactly GTX 1060's, but I have a dilema here. Will the 3GB version mine like 6GB? I heard ZCash does not store the DAG file on card, like ETH miners do, so basically you can mine with 1GB cards too. Also, I want to pick up the cheapest ones, sadly that's the Gigabyte MINI ITX ones... The room will have an AC, so that's not a problem I think, but do anyone here recommend that crap for 24\7 load? Also, if ZCash is not going to profitable anymore, what are my options, except selling them and buying some AMD cards?

If i remember correctly the difference between the 3GB and 6GB is only around 10 Sol/s so not that much considering they make around 300 Sol each, However i would recommend a full size card because they most likely have better cooling solutions. And as for ZCash profitability, there are other alternatives that use the equihash algorithm such as HUSH, Zclassic, ZenCash and Komodo.

[akuci]

Are MSI's Armor series okay? They are not cheap as Gigabyte's ITX, but have a better cooling solution as you said.
Last question, and I'm cutting off with offtopic. Do you recommend going with GTX cards, instead of Radeons? I really don't know what I'm gonna mine right now (What coin), so I feel a little bit insecure to invest that amount of money in GTX cards. They are easier to sell, that for sure.

So I'm done with off, thank you everyone.

[Akaruz]

My MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X does easy 500 Sols/s using 180W

[Pustul]

My MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X does easy 500 Sols/s using 180W

I just bought a used MSI Gaming X since I found a good deal locally and this card is a beast! As you said, it will mine stable 500 Sols/s @ 180W and can even go up to 520 Sols/s (33 MH/s for ETH), consumes about 210W though

Are MSI's Armor series okay? They are not cheap as Gigabyte's ITX, but have a better cooling solution as you said.
Last question, and I'm cutting off with offtopic. Do you recommend going with GTX cards, instead of Radeons? I really don't know what I'm gonna mine right now (What coin), so I feel a little bit insecure to invest that amount of money in GTX cards. They are easier to sell, that for sure.

So I'm done with off, thank you everyone.

The Armor has less good cooling though and can't overclock as well, but it can still do about 480 Sols/s @ 170W, I could push it to 500 Sols/s but had stability issues so I dialed it back a little. It still a good price for the money I'd say since the Gaming X new is a good 40$ more here.

As for AMD vs NVIDIA, I went for NVIDIA because they are good at mining other coins such as equihash which have very valuable coins right now (ZEN, ZEC, etc.). Plus the miner from EWBF is great and they are available right now

[jonfrakes]

EWBF's miner actually took 5-6% DevFee instead of the stated 2%. I checked the log file out of curiosity and counted all accepted vs DevFee:

GPU0   1703 accepted
GPU1   1772 accepted
GPU2   1791 accepted
GPU3   1723 accepted

Total: 6989 accepted
DevFee: 362 instances

362 / 6989   = 0.05179567892402346544570038632136 = 5.1%


On a second run I got the following:

Total: 6159 accepted
DevFee: 347 instances

347 / 6159   = 0.05634031498619905828868322779672 = 5.6%


I was doing around 1800 sol/s with EWBF and around 1700 sol/s with NiceHash's Excavator. So I stopped using EWBF since there's no difference running Excavator over this.

[sublimus]

EWBF's miner actually took 5-6% DevFee instead of the stated 2%. I checked the log file out of curiosity and counted all accepted vs DevFee:

GPU0   1703 accepted
GPU1   1772 accepted
GPU2   1791 accepted
GPU3   1723 accepted

Total: 6989 accepted
DevFee: 362 instances

362 / 6989   = 0.05179567892402346544570038632136 = 5.1%


On a second run I got the following:

Total: 6159 accepted
DevFee: 347 instances

347 / 6159   = 0.05634031498619905828868322779672 = 5.6%


I was doing around 1800 sol/s with EWBF and around 1700 sol/s with NiceHash's Excavator. So I stopped using EWBF since there's no difference running Excavator over this.

With Excavator you get paid in Zec or in BTC?

[jonfrakes]

With Excavator you get paid in Zec or in BTC?

I can point Excavator to any mining pool I want. It doesn't matter which currency I get paid. The fact is 5.6% of my GPUs work done was allocated to DevFee as opposed to the stated 2%.

[fatsailor]

Ewbf_ any update on a new release with better API? Hope all is well on your end!

Hi, yes new release coming soon. What new api features do you want to see?

More verbose error messages, i.e. Error 29 means nothing to me and I get it frequently.

[zer0k]

EWBF's miner actually took 5-6% DevFee instead of the stated 2%. I checked the log file out of curiosity and counted all accepted vs DevFee:

GPU0   1703 accepted
GPU1   1772 accepted
GPU2   1791 accepted
GPU3   1723 accepted

Total: 6989 accepted
DevFee: 362 instances

362 / 6989   = 0.05179567892402346544570038632136 = 5.1%


On a second run I got the following:

Total: 6159 accepted
DevFee: 347 instances

347 / 6159   = 0.05634031498619905828868322779672 = 5.6%


I was doing around 1800 sol/s with EWBF and around 1700 sol/s with NiceHash's Excavator. So I stopped using EWBF since there's no difference running Excavator over this.

You should run another test with --fee 0 and see what you end up with

[sublimus]

With Excavator you get paid in Zec or in BTC?

I can point Excavator to any mining pool I want. It doesn't matter which currency I get paid. The fact is 5.6% of my GPUs work done was allocated to DevFee as opposed to the stated 2%.

I understood that. No need to get mad at me.