[ANN] Yet another GPU miner release! [YAC]

[Thirtybird]

Anyone got his 5770 over 56 kH? Seeing a 7790 do over 120 kH makes me thing my good ol' 5770 can do 100 too, but no matter what settings i try, always max out at 56 kH. Currently doing this:
cgminer.exe --device 0 --scrypt --worksize 256 --lookup-gap 2 -I 11 --thread-concurrency 10240

None of the settings have a significant impact. E.g. I had Thread concurrency at 3200 as for scrypt mining, same result. Intensity 11, 12 or 13, same results (except at thread concurrency 3200, then it crashes the driver above 11). Worksize and lookup-gap too.

I've got my 5770 doing 61.5 KH/sec, but I think the only difference is I've ramped up the GPU and memory frequency - the following is what I use:

cgminer --scrypt --worksize 128 --lookup-gap 2 -I 12 --thread-concurrency 10240 --gpu-engine 950 --gpu-memclock 1250

I think the older 5XXX series cards just won't be in the same league as a 7XXX card for YaCoin due to the architecture and/or core GPU speed differences.  My 5870, which runs circles around my 7850 in Bitcoin mining runs about HALF of the 7850 in YaCoin mining.  I don't know exactly what the difference is either - the both has 256 bit bus widths with 1 GB of GDDR5 with comparable memory bandwidths.  The clock difference is 1.1GHz vs 850MHz, plus I can get I=12 on the 7850 where I=11 is the best I can do on the 5870.

[sevenseals]

ok folks. yacoin seems to be a nerd-coin until august. not eligible for the populace.

that will in my opinion lead to a price decline.

You're right that people will be afraid of the difficulty decline with N rises. Because it's common sense that the difficulty is the measure of network security for most crypto-coins. But you can also think it as the challenge.

why don't you help me hanzac?
my miner doesn't work yet.

[hanzac]

Anyone got his 5770 over 56 kH? Seeing a 7790 do over 120 kH makes me thing my good ol' 5770 can do 100 too, but no matter what settings i try, always max out at 56 kH. Currently doing this:
cgminer.exe --device 0 --scrypt --worksize 256 --lookup-gap 2 -I 11 --thread-concurrency 10240

None of the settings have a significant impact. E.g. I had Thread concurrency at 3200 as for scrypt mining, same result. Intensity 11, 12 or 13, same results (except at thread concurrency 3200, then it crashes the driver above 11). Worksize and lookup-gap too.

I've got my 5770 doing 61.5 KH/sec, but I think the only difference is I've ramped up the GPU and memory frequency - the following is what I use:

cgminer --scrypt --worksize 128 --lookup-gap 2 -I 12 --thread-concurrency 10240 --gpu-engine 950 --gpu-memclock 1250

I think the older 5XXX series cards just won't be in the same league as a 7XXX card for YaCoin due to the architecture and/or core GPU speed differences.  My 5870, which runs circles around my 7850 in Bitcoin mining runs about HALF of the 7850 in YaCoin mining.  I don't know exactly what the difference is either - the both has 256 bit bus widths with 1 GB of GDDR5 with comparable memory bandwidths.  The clock difference is 1.1GHz vs 850MHz, plus I can get I=12 on the 7850 where I=11 is the best I can do on the 5870.

The difficulty for 5XXX series might be the "keccak_block", there're lots of 64bit integer operations.

[hanzac]

ok folks. yacoin seems to be a nerd-coin until august. not eligible for the populace.

that will in my opinion lead to a price decline.

You're right that people will be afraid of the difficulty decline with N rises. Because it's common sense that the difficulty is the measure of network security for most crypto-coins. But you can also think it as the challenge.

why don't you help me hanzac?
my miner doesn't work yet.

Sorry, I don't notice your problem. Can you re-download the source package & make a clean build follow the building instruction?
Tell me if you still meet problems.

[eule]

Thanks for the 5770 clues ThirtyBird and hanzac, much appreciated! 

[sevenseals]

ok folks. yacoin seems to be a nerd-coin until august. not eligible for the populace.

that will in my opinion lead to a price decline.

You're right that people will be afraid of the difficulty decline with N rises. Because it's common sense that the difficulty is the measure of network security for most crypto-coins. But you can also think it as the challenge.

why don't you help me hanzac?
my miner doesn't work yet.

Sorry, I don't notice your problem. Can you re-download the source package & make a clean build follow the building instruction?
Tell me if you still meet problems.

I used the Win32 binary built by Thirtybird.

Now i have the following messages:

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(129): warning: storage-class specifiers not allowed for routines
  static void

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(131): error: bad argument type to opencl vload/vstore: expected pointer to scalar with addrSpace global/local/private/constant(vload only [2013-06-14 19:29:43] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0

[hanzac]

Sorry, I don't notice your problem. Can you re-download the source package & make a clean build follow the building instruction?
Tell me if you still meet problems.

I used the Win32 binary built by Thirtybird.

Now i have the following messages:

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(129): warning: storage-class specifiers not allowed for routines
  static void

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(131): error: bad argument type to opencl vload/vstore: expected pointer to scalar with addrSpace global/local/private/constant(vload only [2013-06-14 19:29:43] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0

Which GPU do you use? Which OS & display driver do you use?

It seems like your opencl version is not support some features.

[sevenseals]

Sorry, I don't notice your problem. Can you re-download the source package & make a clean build follow the building instruction?
Tell me if you still meet problems.

I used the Win32 binary built by Thirtybird.

Now i have the following messages:

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(129): warning: storage-class specifiers not allowed for routines
  static void

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(131): error: bad argument type to opencl vload/vstore: expected pointer to scalar with addrSpace global/local/private/constant(vload only [2013-06-14 19:29:43] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0

Which GPU do you use? Which OS & display driver do you use?

It seems like your opencl version is not support some features.

GPU 5750
Windows XP
ATI Catalyst 11.7
SDK 2.1

Newer versions of catalyst and sdk doesn't work for bitcoin mining.

[Mapuo]

Not working. With 2x7850 and 1x5770. First is my pc, second is my work pc. Anything in this thread is useless for my cards.

[broken_pixel]

What settings for 7970?  I'm having trouble getting it to work, also what's a good p2pool

7970 should be the same with 7950, what's the trouble, does it print HW errors?

7970s use -g 2 8192 TC -I 13

[Thirtybird]

3.2.1 Windows x86 Binary built: https://mega.co.nz/#!e1YVDBYZ!YSzn40ba5ciOVUeJjIcQnFxbvr0JhdYwkzqempL_l8Y

[Thirtybird]

Not working. With 2x7850 and 1x5770. First is my pc, second is my work pc. Anything in this thread is useless for my cards.

Perhaps there's a version problem with your driver or SDK version?  I actually have one machine running that has 1x7850 and 1x5770, and following the baseline command line hanzac provided, both of those cards worked right out of the gate.

I use AMD catalyst driver 12.10 and SDK version 2.7 on this machine with the following command line :

cgminer --scrypt --worksize 128 --lookup-gap 2 -I 12,12 --thread-concurrency 10240,10240 --gpu-engine 1100,950 --gpu-memclock 1250,1250

(device 0 is the 7850 - it has the GPU freq of 1100.  Device 1 is the 5770 with the GPU freq of 950)

It's okay if you don't want to try some things to get them to work - lower hashrate is better for me

[hanzac]

What settings for 7970?  I'm having trouble getting it to work, also what's a good p2pool

7970 should be the same with 7950, what's the trouble, does it print HW errors?

7970s use -g 2 8192 TC -I 13

Please lower your intensity & try again. You need to search for the card optimal setting.

[tamehuang]

great job!

[hanzac]

Sorry, I don't notice your problem. Can you re-download the source package & make a clean build follow the building instruction?
Tell me if you still meet problems.

I used the Win32 binary built by Thirtybird.

Now i have the following messages:

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(129): warning: storage-class specifiers not allowed for routines
  static void

C:\.....\Locale~1\Temp\OCLA3.tmp.cl(131): error: bad argument type to opencl vload/vstore: expected pointer to scalar with addrSpace global/local/private/constant(vload only [2013-06-14 19:29:43] Failed to init GPU thread 0, disabling device 0

Which GPU do you use? Which OS & display driver do you use?

It seems like your opencl version is not support some features.

GPU 5750
Windows XP
ATI Catalyst 11.7
SDK 2.1

Newer versions of catalyst and sdk doesn't work for bitcoin mining.

This I can't help much, you'll need to install new versions of catalyst driver.

[hanzac]

3.2.1 Windows x86 Binary built: https://mega.co.nz/#!e1YVDBYZ!YSzn40ba5ciOVUeJjIcQnFxbvr0JhdYwkzqempL_l8Y

Thanks, Thirtybird. You're really nice.

[Eli0t]

beta 1 was working but i cant get beta 2 (64bit) to work no matter what i set. was the -scrypt switch renamed?



yacminer --scrypt --worksize 64 --lookup-gap 2 -I 10 --thread-concurrency 2816

[hanzac]

beta 1 was working but i cant get beta 2 (64bit) to work no matter what i set. was the -scrypt switch renamed?



yacminer --scrypt --worksize 64 --lookup-gap 2 -I 10 --thread-concurrency 2816

No the -scrypt switch not changed, because I think it's simple to use.

Can you lower the thread-concurrency or just fall back to beta 1. I can't tell the reason for this error.
Or maybe you can try reboot your PC to make a fresh start.

[YacLives]

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/2333/xbk.png

Not bad for a GTX680 loool A:5 R:5 is not so good though i will have to keep playing around with it but its interesting all the same
and im not even going to get into whether PoS balances the power its using to hash that haha, im sure it will one day

EDIT: these where the settings yacminer --scrypt --worksize 256 --lookup-gap 3 --thread-concurrency 16400 -I 12 using the thirtys update

[wetroof]

can you say what settings do you use for the GTX680?