PhoenixMiner 6.2c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)

[UnclWish]

Oh sorry guys, I forgot, that some pools requires worker name other way than usual...

[gsrcrxsi314]

So far 2.9b is a hit!

0.5% increase in speed across the 3 systems.
No stales in the first 30mins. Which is awesome. I’ll report back with a long term stales percentage number.

AMD rig (6x RX570, 2x RX580)
Before..............After
229.8MH..........230.7MH
0.6% stale........0.0% stale (30 mins)

NVIDIA rig (1x GTX1080ti, 6x GTX1060)
Before..............After
182.7MH...........183.7MH
1.5% stale.........0.0% stale

Gaming rig (1x GTX1080ti)
Before..............After
39.6MH.............39.7MH
3.0% stale.........0.0% stale

[lncm]

Could performance on Baffin (RX 460/560) be improved?

I have a system with a Baffin card and got around 11 Mh/s while Claymore's gives 14 Mh/s.

[rodyw]

I really like this miner. It uses slightly more power then Claymore, but the interface is much better. Maybe a noob question or maybe it has been asked before, but what are the 'degrees' with the exclamation marks ( !!! ). Is it like GH = ( ! ) and TH = ( !!! )?

  This is just a visual indicator of how big is the share difficulty. One exclamation mark is used when the share is between 10 GH and 10 TH. Three exclamation marks are used when the share is difficulty 10 TH or more. For comparison, the current difficulty of ETH network is about 3100 TH.

Thanks, that is exactly the information I asked for! I am using the new 2.9b version and so far it's working great!

[PhoenixMiner]

Hi,

just downloaded 2.9b and copied over my startup.bat but for some reason i am getting ID "0" in the mining pool overview instead of the worker name specified in the command.

http://beta-pirl.pool.sexy/#/account/0x7D7764c9D0EC722e246E1b717A7e11Aad08ACe9f

my start.bat file

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100


PhoenixMiner.exe -pool beta-pirl.pool.sexy:10052 -wal 0x7D7764c9D0EC722e246E1b717A7e11Aad08ACe9f -worker miner1 -coin pirl -nvidia -minRigSpeed 120 -log 0 -cdm 1 -cdmport 3333 -rmode 2 -mi 14

pause

Thank you for reporting this, the problem is fixed and an updated beta (2.9d) has now replaced 2.9b. You can find it at the same location (see this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2647654.msg34449237#msg34449237).

Could performance on Baffin (RX 460/560) be improved?

I have a system with a Baffin card and got around 11 Mh/s while Claymore's gives 14 Mh/s.

  Try to change the -gt parameter (the default is 15), or try using the command line option -clkernel 2 (only works with the latest beta version few posts above).

[Digital_Seytan]

Hehe finally 2.9.d, with a lot of effort downloaded and started only, the miner runs after a few seconds and starts again, and with version 2.8.c it ran like a train.rarara how is that possible. my start. bat is like that

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -pool2 eu1.ethermine.org:4444 -wal 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.rig4 -pass x -nvidia -proto 3 -ftimeout 120 -cdm 0 -log 0 -minRigSpeed 130.000 -rmode 2 - coin eth -coin2 eth -timeout 2200 -tstop 80 -start 70

I think it's all by the devfee who makes this software completely unbearable.

software that has proven itself is ethminer + watchdog windows.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ethminer.exe crash and doesn't restart? Here is a fix! WiNETH,I will take care of your miner and you can relax 2018

WiNETHER is a program that will restart your ethminer everytime it has error.

Links:

readme : https://github.com/digitalpara/WiNETH
downloads https://mirrorace.com/m/1qikt
Don't forget to click Watchdog options and set delay before monitoring for 0MH/s high (mine is 99)

Ethminer is an ethereum miner without devfee
Links:

readme https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer
downloads https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases

[gsrcrxsi314]

So far 2.9b is a hit!

0.5% increase in speed across the 3 systems.
No stales in the first 30mins. Which is awesome. I’ll report back with a long term stales percentage number.

AMD rig (6x RX570, 2x RX580)
Before..............After
229.8MH..........230.7MH
0.6% stale........0.0% stale (30 mins)

NVIDIA rig (1x GTX1080ti, 6x GTX1060)
Before..............After
182.7MH...........183.7MH
1.5% stale.........0.0% stale

Gaming rig (1x GTX1080ti)
Before..............After
39.6MH.............39.7MH
3.0% stale.........0.0% stale

5hrs in, still no stales from any machine.

[lesjokolat]

Hehe finally 2.9.d, with a lot of effort downloaded and started only, the miner runs after a few seconds and starts again, and with version 2.8.c it ran like a train.rarara how is that possible. my start. bat is like that


I think it's all by the devfee who makes this software completely unbearable.

software that has proven itself is ethminer + watchdog windows.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ethminer.exe crash and doesn't restart? Here is a fix! WiNETH,I will take care of your miner and you can relax 2018

WiNETHER is a program that will restart your ethminer everytime it has error.

Links:

readme : https://github.com/digitalpara/WiNETH
downloads https://mirrorace.com/m/1qikt
Don't forget to click Watchdog options and set delay before monitoring for 0MH/s high (mine is 99)

Ethminer is an ethereum miner without devfee
Links:

readme https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer
downloads https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases

Funny Etherminer for me using Fury x and vega 64 is about 15 % slower than PM 2.8b or 2.8c(haven`t tried PM 2.9b) yet...

So lets look at the math if we look at PM rate being 100%(inc dev fee)...
Etherminer 100% - 15% = 85% total rate
PhoenixMiner Miner 100% - .65% = 99.35% total rate

If we look at top level total rate and assume the stale rates are the same(PM tends to lower for me) Then Using Etherminer will lose you around -14.35% of your total mining rate after the PM dev fee...

Be interesting to see others comparisons if they have done it.

[Digital_Seytan]

i think my one nvidia based rig is having a similar issue. it's running 2.8c.

it will run fine for 5-50+hrs, then suddenly it crashes, gets the "unspecified launch failure" error, and doesnt auto-restart. i can see that the watchdog triggered, but then the pheonixminer.exe crashes in windows and it hangs until i manually close it. i usually just reboot the system and it's fine. i run all default parameters except only running the -coin eth command, everything else is defaults.

my AMD based system on 2.8c is rock steady. runs for 300+ hrs and never crashes.

this is what's happening.



normally something like this would just trigger the watchdog, but it crashes in windows and just hangs. so it cant restart itself.

lower the OC on GPU 7, i had the same issue working stable now

seems to be just the miner 2.8c version. been stable since the switch back to 2.8b

the same problem here, over from 2.8.c to 2.9.d only the phoenixminer downloaded nothing changed and becoming Crashes what now?

[j2james]

Funny Etherminer for me using Fury x and vega 64 is about 15 % slower than PM 2.8b or 2.8c(haven`t tried PM 2.9b) yet...

Agreed. PhoenixMiner is the best! I have 6x1070 rig. Etherminer gives me 185-188MH, Claymore 10.6 - up to 190.2, but requires 2 restarts of rig per day to have stable hashrate (using windows scheduler), 11.0 - 11.5 do not provide stable hashrate (170 - 190), 11.6 did not test and do not want, but PhoenixMiner 2.8c gives me stable 191.6!!!

[xunl]

What is the best version for nVidia driver to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c or 2.9d?
I open multiple instances to run claymore on RX580 and Phoenix on GTX1070/1060 on the same rig, right?

[rboer]

Hi,

just downloaded 2.9b and copied over my startup.bat but for some reason i am getting ID "0" in the mining pool overview instead of the worker name specified in the command.

http://beta-pirl.pool.sexy/#/account/0x7D7764c9D0EC722e246E1b717A7e11Aad08ACe9f

my start.bat file

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100


PhoenixMiner.exe -pool beta-pirl.pool.sexy:10052 -wal 0x7D7764c9D0EC722e246E1b717A7e11Aad08ACe9f -worker miner1 -coin pirl -nvidia -minRigSpeed 120 -log 0 -cdm 1 -cdmport 3333 -rmode 2 -mi 14

pause

Thank you for reporting this, the problem is fixed and an updated beta (2.8d) has now replaced 2.8b. You can find it at the same location (see this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2647654.msg34449237#msg34449237).

Could performance on Baffin (RX 460/560) be improved?

I have a system with a Baffin card and got around 11 Mh/s while Claymore's gives 14 Mh/s.

   Try to change the -gt parameter (the default is 15), or try using the command line option -clkernel 2 (only works with the latest beta version few posts above).

thanks man -worker name is resolved for me! now thats what i call support !!!

[rboer]

What is the best version for nVidia driver to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c or 2.9d?
I open multiple instances to run claymore on RX580 and Phoenix on GTX1070/1060 on the same rig, right?

Use two instances of Phoenix (or maybe you can specify which kernel for which GPU?) 1 for your AMD and another for your NVIDIA?

[lesjokolat]

2.8c has all but removed all stales i get reported on screen.

vega 64 impact, no difference in terms of speed mh wise from 2.8b.(ratio of found shares does seem to be lower though when looking at all shares found across all gpus in rig)

fury x the reported hash rates are more level but spikes to higher hashrates are gone. I was getting an avg 35.2 mh on them with spikes to 40.(2.8b) now avg is 34.5 with no spikes. 2.8c

thanks for PM

Update and comparison
2.9d is actually a bit of a loss in hashrate. vega 64 virtually no change from 2.8c. fury x are lower than 2.8c 34.5 avg now

the best speed was 2.8b but stales now are virtually nil.

Regards

[xunl]

What is the best version for nVidia driver to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c or 2.9d?
I open multiple instances to run claymore on RX580 and Phoenix on GTX1070/1060 on the same rig, right?

Use two instances of Phoenix (or maybe you can specify which kernel for which GPU?) 1 for your AMD and another for your NVIDIA?

Thanks, but I want to run 1 instance of Phoenix for nvidia and 1 instance of claymore for AMD on the same rig.
I don't have AMD 18.3 driver installed on the rig. I only have the blockchain beta which is not suitable for Phoenix miner. Claymore has run very stable on it for months and I don't want to upgrade the drivers to introduce unkown factor and downtime.
The nVidia driver on the rig is very stable as well. But if my nVidia driver is good enough for phoenix, I can start a separated instnace of cmd to run all GTX1070/1060 on the rig. Some unknown factors but no downtime. That's why I want to know what's a good version of nVidia driver to run Phoenix. I use afterburn to control OC/Voltage for nVidia cards. Thanks in advance.

[xunl]

Also I would like to know if I start 8 instances of command windows to run Phoenix miner on 8 gpus of the same rig, is there any performance penalty on that?
This is what I did for claymore right now. each miner takes -di # (# is a single digit between 0 to 7 representing 1 gpu)
8 instances of claymores, each mine to a unique eth addr.
If one gpu crashes the miner but didn't cause system hang, the other 7 conitnue working w/o restart. the crashed gpu would just restart automatically 30 second ~ 20 minutes late depending on how bad the situation is. If I start all 8 in one instance, it would restart all 8 gpus as many times as it could until the single crash one became stable.

[BennyT]

Also I would like to know if I start 8 instances of command windows to run Phoenix miner on 8 gpus of the same rig, is there any performance penalty on that?
This is what I did for claymore right now. each miner takes -di # (# is a single digit between 0 to 7 representing 1 gpu)
8 instances of claymores, each mine to a unique eth addr.
If one gpu crashes the miner but didn't cause system hang, the other 7 conitnue working w/o restart. the crashed gpu would just restart automatically 30 second ~ 20 minutes late depending on how bad the situation is. If I start all 8 in one instance, it would restart all 8 gpus as many times as it could until the single crash one became stable.

As long as you have enough ram and processing power there shouldn’t be a performance hit. If you don’t have enough resources then yes.

I’ll often run 2 instances of a miner on the same system. Four cards on claymore and four on Phoenix to test the differences over a few days. But I have more ram and processing power than a mining computer typically needs.

[xunl]

Also I would like to know if I start 8 instances of command windows to run Phoenix miner on 8 gpus of the same rig, is there any performance penalty on that?
This is what I did for claymore right now. each miner takes -di # (# is a single digit between 0 to 7 representing 1 gpu)
8 instances of claymores, each mine to a unique eth addr.
If one gpu crashes the miner but didn't cause system hang, the other 7 conitnue working w/o restart. the crashed gpu would just restart automatically 30 second ~ 20 minutes late depending on how bad the situation is. If I start all 8 in one instance, it would restart all 8 gpus as many times as it could until the single crash one became stable.

As long as you have enough ram and processing power there shouldn’t be a performance hit. If you don’t have enough resources then yes.

I’ll often run 2 instances of a miner on the same system. Four cards on claymore and four on Phoenix to test the differences over a few days. But I have more ram and processing power than a mining computer typically needs.

Thanks

Since I was able to run 8 instances of claymore in one computer, I assume I would have enough resource to do the same for phoenix then. I start 8 instance also for benchmark reason as well. Particularly I was able to measure the true output for different brand gtx 1070/1060 rx 580 gpus: eth/hour on a particular gpu.

Which nVidia driver version is consider to be good for Phoenix miner?

[fimatiku]

Agreed. PhoenixMiner is the best! I have 6x1070 rig. Etherminer gives me 185-188MH, Claymore 10.6 - up to 190.2, but requires 2 restarts of rig per day to have stable hashrate (using windows scheduler), 11.0 - 11.5 do not provide stable hashrate (170 - 190), 11.6 did not test and do not want, but PhoenixMiner 2.8c gives me stable 191.6!!!

I use CL uptime 20 days+++ flawless same hash no issues so speak for yourself. perhaps crap PC or crap gpu? nvidia ? I run RX580's

[fimatiku]

To the Developer:

For some reason phoenixminer will NOT AUTO RUN using regedit but Claymore does  ? what gives

I set up all my rigs to auto log on auto mine - in case power loss or windows update or some other bulsh*t etc.........

works fine with claymore.

If I input phoenixminer.exe absolutely NOTHING HAPPENS AFTER REBOOT ..................... WTF.......................................