excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA GPU miner [1.5.6a]

[Tidsdilatation]

Using this miner to mine ZEC on my 1070s, i get far better h/s on this miner than any elSe, like 30 s/h more.

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[NiceHashSupport]

I haven't played around with the settings as much as some of you, but my best speed (and OC) is around 648 S/s.  Power lim at 120%, +140 core, +500 mem.  Temp gets as high as 85c.  I think efficiency was somewhere around 2.x - Core was at around 1980 MHz while mem is 5508 MHz.  Power draw was around 275W I think.  Fan was at around 80%

I found the best efficiency I could do was just leave it at base clock (1480/5005).  Dialed the power lim it 63% and leave the core and mem clock at +0.  This leaves me with 540 S/s at 3.4 efficiency, 72c (lower fan speed - 42%) and power draw of 157W.

For GTX 1080 Ti, best setting is: +240 core, -300 mem, 60% TDP. You get 630 sol/s (if you keep temps low) at 150 W.

I'm only getting around 580 Sol/s with those settings, but efficiency gone up a bit - now at 3.8.  If I drop to 58% TDP, I get 563 Sol/s but my efficiency goes up to 4.

What are your temps? You will not be able to reach 600+ without properly cooled card. In our experiments, all 1080 Tis go to 620+ with these settings (tested on 6 of them) but it is also true that all are water cooled and have around 40 C working temperature.

[Subw]

Linux??

[guytechie]

I haven't played around with the settings as much as some of you, but my best speed (and OC) is around 648 S/s.  Power lim at 120%, +140 core, +500 mem.  Temp gets as high as 85c.  I think efficiency was somewhere around 2.x - Core was at around 1980 MHz while mem is 5508 MHz.  Power draw was around 275W I think.  Fan was at around 80%

I found the best efficiency I could do was just leave it at base clock (1480/5005).  Dialed the power lim it 63% and leave the core and mem clock at +0.  This leaves me with 540 S/s at 3.4 efficiency, 72c (lower fan speed - 42%) and power draw of 157W.

For GTX 1080 Ti, best setting is: +240 core, -300 mem, 60% TDP. You get 630 sol/s (if you keep temps low) at 150 W.

I'm only getting around 580 Sol/s with those settings, but efficiency gone up a bit - now at 3.8.  If I drop to 58% TDP, I get 563 Sol/s but my efficiency goes up to 4.

What are your temps? You will not be able to reach 600+ without properly cooled card. In our experiments, all 1080 Tis go to 620+ with these settings (tested on 6 of them) but it is also true that all are water cooled and have around 40 C working temperature.

67c.  The 60% TDP seems to be limiting the clock speed.

[NiceHashSupport]

I haven't played around with the settings as much as some of you, but my best speed (and OC) is around 648 S/s.  Power lim at 120%, +140 core, +500 mem.  Temp gets as high as 85c.  I think efficiency was somewhere around 2.x - Core was at around 1980 MHz while mem is 5508 MHz.  Power draw was around 275W I think.  Fan was at around 80%

I found the best efficiency I could do was just leave it at base clock (1480/5005).  Dialed the power lim it 63% and leave the core and mem clock at +0.  This leaves me with 540 S/s at 3.4 efficiency, 72c (lower fan speed - 42%) and power draw of 157W.

For GTX 1080 Ti, best setting is: +240 core, -300 mem, 60% TDP. You get 630 sol/s (if you keep temps low) at 150 W.

I'm only getting around 580 Sol/s with those settings, but efficiency gone up a bit - now at 3.8.  If I drop to 58% TDP, I get 563 Sol/s but my efficiency goes up to 4.

What are your temps? You will not be able to reach 600+ without properly cooled card. In our experiments, all 1080 Tis go to 620+ with these settings (tested on 6 of them) but it is also true that all are water cooled and have around 40 C working temperature.

67c.  The 60% TDP seems to be limiting the clock speed.

And temperature, too. Clock is starting to get lower after around 40-45 C. Cool it down to 45 and you will see the difference. Also what we noticed is that slow PCIe interfaces play some role here too; with PCIe 2.0 x1, there is around 10 sol/s missing compared to PCIe 3.0 x1. If you have PCIe 1.1 x1, then you might be loosing even more due to slow interface.

[guytechie]

I haven't played around with the settings as much as some of you, but my best speed (and OC) is around 648 S/s.  Power lim at 120%, +140 core, +500 mem.  Temp gets as high as 85c.  I think efficiency was somewhere around 2.x - Core was at around 1980 MHz while mem is 5508 MHz.  Power draw was around 275W I think.  Fan was at around 80%

I found the best efficiency I could do was just leave it at base clock (1480/5005).  Dialed the power lim it 63% and leave the core and mem clock at +0.  This leaves me with 540 S/s at 3.4 efficiency, 72c (lower fan speed - 42%) and power draw of 157W.

For GTX 1080 Ti, best setting is: +240 core, -300 mem, 60% TDP. You get 630 sol/s (if you keep temps low) at 150 W.

I'm only getting around 580 Sol/s with those settings, but efficiency gone up a bit - now at 3.8.  If I drop to 58% TDP, I get 563 Sol/s but my efficiency goes up to 4.

What are your temps? You will not be able to reach 600+ without properly cooled card. In our experiments, all 1080 Tis go to 620+ with these settings (tested on 6 of them) but it is also true that all are water cooled and have around 40 C working temperature.

67c.  The 60% TDP seems to be limiting the clock speed.

And temperature, too. Clock is starting to get lower after around 40-45 C. Cool it down to 45 and you will see the difference. Also what we noticed is that slow PCIe interfaces play some role here too; with PCIe 2.0 x1, there is around 10 sol/s missing compared to PCIe 3.0 x1. If you have PCIe 1.1 x1, then you might be loosing even more due to slow interface.

Huh... I thought the throttle only happens when temps hit 84c

[tortellino]

what settings i ahve to make if i want to mine KMD on ZPOOL, where one port is available for mining different coin (ZCASH, KMD, ZClassic)? normally its at the end of the settings c=KMD but i amnot sure here.

[MohBTC]

Thanks for the addition. I am using my laptop GPU 940MX for ZEC mining  ( just for fun) and excavator gives 10% better hash rate the EWFB ( which was my previous best) . Thanks.

[b0ltzy]

try put them into Settings -> Devices/Algorithms -> select your card -> select Equigash (excavator) -> and type them into field Extra Launc Parameters

http://i89.fastpic.ru/big/2017/0330/34/56f538bb5115c360b3655e0125ba2234.jpg

I'm trying but it doesn't seem to work

You are right, I got the same issue, and after checking with process explorer there is no extra params.

I got a look on Nicehash's GUI on github https://github.com/nicehash/NiceHashMiner/blob/master/NiceHashMiner/Miners/Parsing/ExtraLaunchParameters.cs#L175

It's only handle '-c1' and '-c2' options..

I'm opening an issue on github.

[zawawa]

Hi all,

I just joined the NiceHash team and was put in charge of the new AMD/OpenCL support for excavator. I think the miner will be a meaningful contribution to the community with its top-notch performance and the clean, modular code base, and I would like to make the development process as collaborative as possible so that it will grow into a feature-rich, user-friendly miner. If you have any feedback and/or requests, please let me know. I look forward to working with you all.

Best,
zawawa

[chrysophylax]

Hi all,

I just joined the NiceHash team and was put in charge of the new AMD/OpenCL support for excavator. I think the miner will be a meaningful contribution to the community with its top-notch performance and the clean, modular code base, and I would like to make the development process as collaborative as possible so that it will grow into a feature-rich, user-friendly miner. If you have any feedback and/or requests, please let me know. I look forward to working with you all.

Best,
zawawa

nice going mate ...

when you decide working on other projects is worth the effort - let us know ...

#crysx

[felixbrucker]

Hi all,

I just joined the NiceHash team and was put in charge of the new AMD/OpenCL support for excavator. I think the miner will be a meaningful contribution to the community with its top-notch performance and the clean, modular code base, and I would like to make the development process as collaborative as possible so that it will grow into a feature-rich, user-friendly miner. If you have any feedback and/or requests, please let me know. I look forward to working with you all.

Best,
zawawa

last time i checked the api was pretty "light"

not top priority but worthy of being taken onto some list

[djeZo]

Hi all,

I just joined the NiceHash team and was put in charge of the new AMD/OpenCL support for excavator. I think the miner will be a meaningful contribution to the community with its top-notch performance and the clean, modular code base, and I would like to make the development process as collaborative as possible so that it will grow into a feature-rich, user-friendly miner. If you have any feedback and/or requests, please let me know. I look forward to working with you all.

Best,
zawawa

last time i checked the api was pretty "light"

not top priority but worthy of being taken onto some list

Excavator has the best API any mining software has ever displayed so far. But from version 1.2.0 on, which isn't publicly available (yet).

[patrike]

Hi all,

I just joined the NiceHash team and was put in charge of the new AMD/OpenCL support for excavator. I think the miner will be a meaningful contribution to the community with its top-notch performance and the clean, modular code base, and I would like to make the development process as collaborative as possible so that it will grow into a feature-rich, user-friendly miner. If you have any feedback and/or requests, please let me know. I look forward to working with you all.

Best,
zawawa

last time i checked the api was pretty "light"

not top priority but worthy of being taken onto some list

Excavator has the best API any mining software has ever displayed so far. But from version 1.2.0 on, which isn't publicly available (yet).

I'm getting several requests from users running Awesome Miner to add support for monitoring the Excavator miner. So getting a good API implemented will be appreciated. Just let me know if you need any beta testers for the API parts.

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[felixbrucker]

Hi all,

I just joined the NiceHash team and was put in charge of the new AMD/OpenCL support for excavator. I think the miner will be a meaningful contribution to the community with its top-notch performance and the clean, modular code base, and I would like to make the development process as collaborative as possible so that it will grow into a feature-rich, user-friendly miner. If you have any feedback and/or requests, please let me know. I look forward to working with you all.

Best,
zawawa

last time i checked the api was pretty "light"

not top priority but worthy of being taken onto some list

Excavator has the best API any mining software has ever displayed so far. But from version 1.2.0 on, which isn't publicly available (yet).

cant wait im almost amd only now so i might have to wait for opencl being included to fully play with it, haha

[airwalker2662]

I don't see the need for bragging rights quite yet. I cannot find excavator to be anything but less profitable than EWBF's miner. I am an nVidia miner, sets of 970's and 1070's and excavator just does not compete at the moment.

[chrysophylax]

I don't see the need for bragging rights quite yet. I cannot find excavator to be anything but less profitable than EWBF's miner. I am an nVidia miner, sets of 970's and 1070's and excavator just does not compete at the moment.

yup ...

especially when a new miner is under development now also ...

...

#crysx

[SS2006]

for zcash mining, i find EQM and ZECminer to give me much better hash rates on a gtx 1080..strange.

[zawawa]

Excavator's API has a pretty interesting minimalist design philosophy, which is refreshingly different from sgminer etc.
I would imagine its merits would become clearer as we add more features and algorithms and develop helper applications that take advantage of it.
As for raw performance, I will do everything I can to make it a top-notch OpenCL miner.
Now that I have more time and resources, I can try things that were previously impossible for me, and I am really excited about that.