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

[motomart]

Wow... Someone posted on Claymore thread that following config is getting 60 MHs with Phoenix 4.6c, I have it running for 10 min and it's true. I'm getting 59.7 at 104-110 Watt. I only hope it stays stable without lockup.

-tt 58 -cvddc 750 -cclock 1300 -fanmin 0 -mclock 900 -amd -acm -mi 12 -gt 126 -mode 1 -clKernel 1 -clNew 1 -clf 0 -lidag 1 -openclLocalWork 128 -openclGlobalMultiplier 4096

[Binary100100]

How can I troubleshoot incorrect shares?

I'm mining ETH with RX 5700 XT
-tt 58 -cvddc 750 -cclock 1300 -fanmin 0 -mclock 900 -amd -acm -mi 12 -gt 126 -mode 1 -clKernel 1 -clNew 1 -clf 0 -lidag 1 -openclLocalWork 128 -openclGlobalMultiplier 4096

I'm averaging 60MH/s but I'm getting a lot of incorrect shares. (11 out of 26)

Windows 10 with 19.9.2 driver

[UnclWish]

With -clKernel 3 and new founded -gt parameter (it differs from -clKernel 1) you can gain about 0,7-1MH/s additional speed...
And I recommend to find -gt parameter for each card individually, not using the same for all cards. Best of it can be differ even on two equal cards. Each changing of cclock or mclock leads to new best -gt parameter, just check it...

[Binary100100]

With -clKernel 3 and new founded -gt parameter (it differs from -clKernel 1) you can gain about 0,7-1MH/s additional speed...
And I recommend to find -gt parameter for each card individually, not using the same for all cards. Best of it can be differ even on two equal cards. Each changing of cclock or mclock leads to new best -gt parameter, just check it...

Yeah that didn't help at all with my incorrect shares. I removed the -gt parameter so it does it automatically. I'm going back to -clKernel 1 for the moment. Perhaps that will help.
And it looks like I can remove the -acm since Compute Mode isn't needed for these cards.

-tt 58 -cvddc 750 -cclock 1300 -fanmin 0 -mclock 900 -amd -mode 1 -clKernel 1 -clNew 1 -openclLocalWork 64
Reduces my hashrate slightly and I'm 3 for 3 so far. It's been running for a couple of minutes and no incorrect shares.

[Bathmat]

With -clKernel 3 and new founded -gt parameter (it differs from -clKernel 1) you can gain about 0,7-1MH/s additional speed...
And I recommend to find -gt parameter for each card individually, not using the same for all cards. Best of it can be differ even on two equal cards. Each changing of cclock or mclock leads to new best -gt parameter, just check it...

Code:

The option -clKernel 3 is ignored for GPU1

[Binary100100]

I have been playing around with these for most part of the day and started off by trying:
-tt 58 -cvddc 750 -cclock 1300 -fanmin 0 -mclock 900 -amd -acm -mi 12 -mode 1 -clKernel 3 -clNew 1 -clf 0 -lidag 1 -openclLocalWork 128 -openclGlobalMultiplier 4096
But I was getting between 30% to 50% incorrect shares.
I've tried slightly adjusting the -gt between 15 to 150 (even 0 or leaving it out completely) and it seemed to help slightly at ~115 but I was still experiencing a lot of incorrect shares.
Now... I've tried experimenting with -clKernel 3 but it always said that it was ignored.

I've tried:
-tt 58 -cvddc 750 -cclock 1300 -fanmin 0 -mclock 900 -amd -mode 1 -clKernel 3 -clNew 1 -openclLocalWork 64
Which seemed a little better but I was still getting between 5% incorrect shares (about 1 out of every 15-20) but I was only yielding ~56MH/s. Not too bad...

So then I remove the -openclLocalWork...
-tt 58 -cvddc 750 -cclock 1300 -fanmin 0 -mclock 900 -amd -mode 1 -clKernel 1 -clNew 1

I let this run for exactly 5 hours and 19 minutes.
Three XFX 5700 XT cards.
Accepted 318, Rejected 0, HW Errors 0
Averaging 52 MH/s for 156 MH/s combined and 277w combined (92w - 94w each)


You have to admit that these are very solid, stable and promising. Results of 52MH/s for 92w is 0.56MH/s per watt seems pretty efficient. Ideally I'd love to have a 500+MH/s Ethereum mining rig on a 1,000w PSU and I believe that it's achievable with these cards.

[Felis777]

has anyone experienced a constantly decrease in hashrate 1070 and p104 cards? P104 drops hashrate from 40 to 39 in last 2-3months, same settings. Any workaround?

[j2james]

has anyone experienced a constantly decrease in hashrate 1070 and p104 cards? P104 drops hashrate from 40 to 39 in last 2-3months, same settings. Any workaround?

Hm. I have the same problem. Two 1070 cards of 6 have decreased its hasrate. I thought it is because these cards work much time. Nothing was changed in configuration files, MSI Afterburner was not updated, Phoeninx miner was not updated too.

[joaogti36]

has anyone experienced a constantly decrease in hashrate 1070 and p104 cards? P104 drops hashrate from 40 to 39 in last 2-3months, same settings. Any workaround?

Hm. I have the same problem. Two 1070 cards of 6 have decreased its hasrate. I thought it is because these cards work much time. Nothing was changed in configuration files, MSI Afterburner was not updated, Phoeninx miner was not updated too.

u need to increase by +150 the core of the 1070.... like power 108watt core +150 mem +550 should go to 31.2mh per card!!

[Lunga Chung]

has anyone experienced a constantly decrease in hashrate 1070 and p104 cards? P104 drops hashrate from 40 to 39 in last 2-3months, same settings. Any workaround?

Hm. I have the same problem. Two 1070 cards of 6 have decreased its hasrate. I thought it is because these cards work much time. Nothing was changed in configuration files, MSI Afterburner was not updated, Phoeninx miner was not updated too.

u need to increase by +150 the core of the 1070.... like power 108watt core +150 mem +550 should go to 31.2mh per card!!

what about power limit?

[UnclWish]

has anyone experienced a constantly decrease in hashrate 1070 and p104 cards? P104 drops hashrate from 40 to 39 in last 2-3months, same settings. Any workaround?

Hm. I have the same problem. Two 1070 cards of 6 have decreased its hasrate. I thought it is because these cards work much time. Nothing was changed in configuration files, MSI Afterburner was not updated, Phoeninx miner was not updated too.

Maybe it happens due to DAG size growing?

[joaogti36]

has anyone experienced a constantly decrease in hashrate 1070 and p104 cards? P104 drops hashrate from 40 to 39 in last 2-3months, same settings. Any workaround?

Hm. I have the same problem. Two 1070 cards of 6 have decreased its hasrate. I thought it is because these cards work much time. Nothing was changed in configuration files, MSI Afterburner was not updated, Phoeninx miner was not updated too.

u need to increase by +150 the core of the 1070.... like power 108watt core +150 mem +550 should go to 31.2mh per card!!

what about power limit?

power limit is 108watt

[alumar]

Performance Video in my testing so far: 481mh @ 1062w for a 8x 5700 XT rig. https://twitter.com/BitsBeTrippin/status/1174169921250631682

But probably going to settle for 474mh @ 1058, as few of the cards not showing 100% stability with settings. Once I see it clean for 24h will post how I got there in video.

[bategojko74]

Performance Video in my testing so far: 481mh @ 1062w for a 8x 5700 XT rig. https://twitter.com/BitsBeTrippin/status/1174169921250631682

But probably going to settle for 474mh @ 1058, as few of the cards not showing 100% stability with settings. Once I see it clean for 24h will post how I got there in video.

What about the 2 from 8 incorrect shares?

[KaydenC]

Performance Video in my testing so far: 481mh @ 1062w for a 8x 5700 XT rig. https://twitter.com/BitsBeTrippin/status/1174169921250631682

But probably going to settle for 474mh @ 1058, as few of the cards not showing 100% stability with settings. Once I see it clean for 24h will post how I got there in video.

Nice, it's more efficient that Vega VII unless the Vega runs at 0.8v, 75mh/s. Better price perf too. Never thought that can happen, since HBM has good power savings. I guess it's because the Rx 5700 can run at lower voltages, while the Vega need 0.9v for 90mh/s. So it's not savings due to architecture, but due to better core to mem bandwidth ratio, allowing for lower voltage.

It still has to run ProgPow competitively and ideally a few more algos like beam and mtp before I can consider getting it.

[Quake4]

ProgPow just ended on startup

Code:

Phoenix Miner 4.6c Windows/msvc - Release build
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CUDA version: 10.0, CUDA runtime: 8.0
Available GPUs for mining:
GPU1: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (pcie 1), CUDA cap. 6.1, 11 GB VRAM, 28 CUs
Nvidia driver version: 430.86
PP: the pool list contains 1 pool (1 from command-line)
PP: primary pool: progpow.mine.zergpool.com:3200
Starting GPU mining
PP: Connecting to progpow pool progpow.mine.zergpool.com:3200 (proto: Stratum)
GPU1: 35C 28% 17W
GPUs power: 17.4 W
PP: Connected to progpow pool progpow.mine.zergpool.com:3200 (103.249.70.7)
PP: Subscribed to progpow pool
Listening for CDM remote manager at port 3360 in read-only mode
PP: Worker xxx authorized
PP: New job #2d81e29b from progpow.mine.zergpool.com:3200; diff: 188MH
GPU1: Starting up... (0)
GPU1: Generating ethash light cache for epoch #20
Light cache generated in 2.9 s (6.3 MB/s)
GPU1: ProgPOW seed set to 20

Run as:

Code:

PhoenixMiner.exe -pool stratum+tcp://progpow.mine.zergpool.com:3200 -wal xxx -pass c=BTC,Test -proto 1 -cdmport 3360 -nvidia -coin bci

[Bathmat]

I've noticed an issue where at least 1 of my RX5700 will crash after switching to ETC when mining on Nicehash. The crash happens after a few minutes (less than 10) and they will crash even if it's only a brief switch to ETC then back to ETH. Mining to a regular ETC pool does not have any issues. I've tried every config setting/flag I can think of to try to prevent it (-eres 0 -rvram -1 -lidag 0 through 3), and both drivers 19.9.1 and 19.9.2. This is using version 4.6c. Any other setting I should try?

[j2james]

has anyone experienced a constantly decrease in hashrate 1070 and p104 cards? P104 drops hashrate from 40 to 39 in last 2-3months, same settings. Any workaround?

Hm. I have the same problem. Two 1070 cards of 6 have decreased its hasrate. I thought it is because these cards work much time. Nothing was changed in configuration files, MSI Afterburner was not updated, Phoeninx miner was not updated too.

u need to increase by +150 the core of the 1070.... like power 108watt core +150 mem +550 should go to 31.2mh per card!!

Core settings does not change hashrate for ETH significally.
I use CV +0, PL 64, CC +0, MC +600 and have 31.6 per card. That was more then 1.5 year. But last month (may be less then 30 days) 2 cards have about 31. Only two cards. Other 4 cards still have 31.6. As I said, nothing was changed. So I think that these two cards have regression because work much time. Initially I have only 2 cards. Then I have added 4 cards. But for now I do not know which cards decreased their hashrate - these 2 old cards or others. With these settings I have about 730W.

[53nsk]

After updating drivers from 19.9.1 to 19.9.2 miner won't start, claymore works fine.

[Bathmat]

After updating drivers from 19.9.1 to 19.9.2 miner won't start, claymore works fine.

Check that windows defender isn't blocking the process... that's what happened to me.