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

[Schtroumpf]

using software with devfee like claymore or pheonix is useless since ethminer has same hashrate and is free !!
https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases

[4ward]

using software with devfee like claymore or pheonix is useless since ethminer has same hashrate and is free !!
https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases

you are really bad at comparing numbers, aren't you?

[human75]

using software with devfee like claymore or pheonix is useless since ethminer has same hashrate and is free !!
https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer/releases

So why are you here then?:-))Do u think dont we know etherminer? Good. luck to you. We are happy with Phoenix Miner.

[PhoenixMiner]

In help file of 2.8c -tstop and -start are placed inside section "for AMD cards only". I hope it is by mistake? Will it work on NVIDIA cards or no?

  -tstop and -tstart work with Nvidia cards too. It was an oversight and was corrected, thank you for noticing.

PhoenixMiner 2.8c doesn't report Hashrate when I'm mining with HTTP GetWork through local eth-proxy.exe
I tried to set -rate 1 param but no effect.

Here is my cmd-line:
PhoenixMiner.exe -amd -coin eth -gwtime 50 -rate 1 -pool http://192.168.10.12:8090/rig1

  We couldn't reproduce the problem here. Could you tell us what proxy you are using (a download link perhaps)?

PhoenixMiner 2.8c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner works Great thanks.

in my case dont forget for Nvidia cards (-mi 10) with this code on the bat file.

Please add more auto functions

  If you haven't specified any -mi, the default value for Nvidia cards is still 10. Even if you have mixed Nvidia/Amd rig, you don't need to specify -mi if you are happy with 12 for AMD cards and 10 for Nvidia. However, if you want to use for example 14 for the AMD cards, you will have to specify -mi value for each card, e.g. -mi 14,14,14,10,10,10 if you have three AMD and three Nvidia cards.

Appeal to the developers. Can you cancel devfee for coins that are not currently listed? Switching dag files can lead to a crash and change of settings -eres / -lidag this problem is not solved (

 Unfortunately there is no good way to detect the coin. We use some heuristics but they aren't 100% accurate (if they were, we wouldn't have the -coin command line option). Also such feature will be easy for abuse in the future.

Phoenixminer I have a question, when you start phoenixminer and ethminer-0.9.41-genoil-1.x.x? the screen and the operation are very similar, is the basis of phoenixminer software the same as ethminer-0.9.41-genoil-1.x.x? .

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Phoenixminer 2.8.c works very well less stale shares, I use nvdia gpu so far I was very satisfied with version 2.6 which gave higher stale shares. thank you for this good miner software.

  No, but we liked some of the ideas in the original ethminer like showing the progress of DAG generation and the internal (visible to the miner) stale shares, so we implemented them in our miner too.

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

  More AMD kernel improvements are coming shortly in the first beta of 2.9.

[UnclWish]

What's this: PhoenixMiner 2.9c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Windows)?

[infectedmushi]

What's this: PhoenixMiner 2.9c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Windows)?

that's a nasty virus probably. was able to track the zip file, it only has an exe file with the name "PhoenixMiner 2.8c.exe"

[pooparknoty]

Running 2.8c now, One of my GPU's still drops to 0.0mh.  I have two models of this card, same memory, both with stable overclock.  Runs fine with 2.7b.  Have tried to lower significantly its memory clock from 2200 to 2100, 2075 and 2050, does not fix the problem, left the core at 1150.  With version 2.8c I have tried to use the -clnew 0 flag for that particular GPU while designating the other cards in the system -clnew 1 yet it does not fix the problem.  I run the card with -mi 12 on 2.7b so I also tried to lower that to -mi 10 on 2.8c with no difference in result.  Only way that card remains hashing is by running it separately with 2.7b.  I have also tried claymore 11.6 version with the same conclusion, hashes for a minute or two and drops out to 0.0mh. 

Has anyone else experienced this particular problem?  Its not a major issue for me running two versions but it is the idea that I cannot solve this problem has me twisted atm.   

[Iamtutut]

What's the ASIC rate of this card when you check with GPU-Z ? My weakest card must run at 1130MHz core to be stable with undervolting.
I'm trying the last claymore, I can't dual mine because of this one, it crashes. Waiting for next phoenix version to compare with claymore 11.6.

[bitcoin.dbi]

Tried 2.8c. Noticed that nvidia cards found a lot of more shares then AMD cards. 

[pooparknoty]

What's the ASIC rate of this card when you check with GPU-Z ? My weakest card must run at 1130MHz core to be stable with undervolting.
I'm trying the last claymore, I can't dual mine because of this one, it crashes. Waiting for next phoenix version to compare with claymore 11.6.

That particular card that is having the drop out is 72.4% asic quality.  The other MSI armor 570 I got in that batch is 66% asic quality and is performing fine.  I am also not pushing the undervolting much, 850mv core & 900mv mem.

[pinamalina]

Just gave a chance to PM2.8c today on Windows 10. Sharing my first expression, observations, problems and results:

Copied the Claymore config file over. It fails out of the box. Requires a migration of configuration.
After a bit of tweaking a successful configuration file migration was in place. Got the PM2.8c running in less than 3 minutes.

The following discrepancies were observed:

PM2.8c vs CL11.5
1. config file with spaces listing multiple single option values, for example: "-cvddc   835, 835, 850, 900, 835, 835" reports an issue with invalid option 835. CL allows spaces. Some use spaces with a line above as comment with list of GPUs; GPU1 GPU2 GPU3 ... - spaces are for alignment.

2. Order of GPUs is different, this leads to incompatibility with CL existing configuration. CL lists AMD cards then adds NVidia cards. On PH2.8c all are mixed as discovered at system level The migration requires redo of the config file and custom settings for all options with individual values per GPU. For example: -cclock 0,0,0,0,1170,0,0,1160,1160,1160,1180,0,1120 - the 0 for NVIDIA cards. Migrated from -cclock 1170,1160,1160,1160,1180,1120.

3. -ethi default is different 8 vs 12.


Results/comparison as reported by miners (13 GPUs rig: 5x AMD RX580, 7x NVidia 1070):
CL11.5: Average speed (as observed in logs): 400.309 - ranging: 400.151 MH/s - 400.706 MH/s @ wall wattage: 1620W
PH2.8c: Average speed (5 min): 402.817 MH/s - ranging:  400.926 MH/s - 404.945 MH/s @ wall wattage: 1630W

Observations:

1. Can confirm increased hash rate of 0.62%. (Same settings as CL).
2. The reporting API works as advertised out of the box. Using Claymore's Monitor on Android it just works, reporting the version as: PM2.8c-ETH compared to 11.5-ETH (Claymore).
3. It appears stale shares value is at a similar level to CL. The PH reported % of stale shares is not in sync with pool report (ethermine.org): 1.26% vs 3%
4. Log file entries are detailed and easy to understand.
6. The on-screen run log/report is on a higher level compared to CL. Way more informative and rich with data. Not sure about the (!) next to Share actual difficulty when diff is in GH.
7. As a software engineer I do start counting my GPUs with 0, 1 ... but on the other hand some other SWs such as HWinfo64 are also listing GPUs from 1, 2, 3... Not sure yet how annoying if at all this is.

Will keep this rig running for a while to gather more data on stability and performance. Will report back.

Would be nice for miners to add a migration section (from other miner apps) to PH.
Definitely would be interested to buy a licensed version with devfee 0.
All in all a great alternative miner with better performance and a lower devfee. A solid ****. Excellent job.

[skinnyfalcon]

Perhaps folks can possibly help me as I'm stumped:
Few months back, I was getting an average of 240-250mhs with my 8 card rig.  Same Bios and setup at the time.  
As of recently though I'm averaging about 18-19 per card with one random gpu showing 30ish.  

I've tried to reinstall windows, turn off auto updates (heard that fall creators update can slow the hashes down).  
I tried the blockchain drivers, was pushing 150mhs for the same 8 card rig, and installed the new adrenaline drivers and enabled compute (that's where I got that extra 10mhs with the one random card).

I thought the difficulty went up and that's why they were running worse, but I'm reading people are still pulling about 30mhs with their Powercolor Red Devil RX580's 8GB models.  (I have 16 with hynix memory and 12 with micron memory.  Both groups have modded bios, which before allowed them to each run around 28-30mhs each).  

Any insight as to why they would've dropped?  I picked Phoenix Miner because I've heard good things about them, and the lower dev fee.  

Here is a pic of one of the 8 rigs for example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dlavivnwdfy7fkj/MHS.PNG?dl=0

Those are numbers indicative of cards not in the compute mode. If you are using the AMD utility to switch to computer, you have to switch each card and restart to take effect, repeat for all cards (very time consuming). There is a script to switch all at once by modifying the registry (much quicker). Also, how did you mod your bios? with a downloaded rom file or change the strap yourself? If you have not fixed the problem ping me i will try to help.

[Nokia555]

Added PhoenixMiner 2.8c to official EthControl software list, great work.

[roniux]

I've tested with Windows 7 and works great, now I want to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c with Windows 10.0.16299.334 with the last patches in the same Workstation (Intel s5000psl, 2 Intel Xeon E5450 processors for a total of 8 cores, 32Gb RAM, EVGA nVidia 1060GTX 3Gb, a virtual memory assigned to 16Gb Min/64Gb Max) but appear the follow issue:

GPU1: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (pcie 7), CUDA cap. 6.1, 3 GB VRAM, 9 CUs
Listening for CDM Remote manager at port 3333 in read only
Eth: the pool list contains 4 pools
Eth: primary pool: eu1.ethpool.org:3333
Starting GPU mining
Eth: Connection to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (proto: QtMiner)
Eth:Connected to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (35.198.113.32)
GPU1: 54C 16%
Eth: New Job #03b29753 from eu1.ethpool.org:3333; diff 4000MH
GPU1: Starting up...(0)
Eth: Generating light cache for epoch #178
Eth: Allocating DAG (2.41) GB; good for epoch up to #180
Eth speed: 0.000 M/s, shares: 0/0/0, time: 0:00
CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)
GPU1 initMiner error: out of memory
Thread(s)  not responding. Restarting.

In an infinite loop until I close the window, I've used the following syntax in the bat file:

PhoenixMiner.exe -coin eth -nvidia -gpus 1 -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

or

PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

In both cases the same issue "CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)" .

Anyone that could help me I appreciate, thanks in advanced

[mayers8851]

I've tested with Windows 7 and works great, now I want to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c with Windows 10.0.16299.334 with the last patches in the same Workstation (Intel s5000psl, 2 Intel Xeon E5450 processors for a total of 8 cores, 32Gb RAM, EVGA nVidia 1060GTX 3Gb, a virtual memory assigned to 16Gb Min/64Gb Max) but appear the follow issue:

GPU1: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (pcie 7), CUDA cap. 6.1, 3 GB VRAM, 9 CUs
Listening for CDM Remote manager at port 3333 in read only
Eth: the pool list contains 4 pools
Eth: primary pool: eu1.ethpool.org:3333
Starting GPU mining
Eth: Connection to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (proto: QtMiner)
Eth:Connected to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (35.198.113.32)
GPU1: 54C 16%
Eth: New Job #03b29753 from eu1.ethpool.org:3333; diff 4000MH
GPU1: Starting up...(0)
Eth: Generating light cache for epoch #178
Eth: Allocating DAG (2.41) GB; good for epoch up to #180
Eth speed: 0.000 M/s, shares: 0/0/0, time: 0:00
CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)
GPU1 initMiner error: out of memory
Thread(s)  not responding. Restarting.

In an infinite loop until I close the window, I've used the following syntax in the bat file:

PhoenixMiner.exe -coin eth -nvidia -gpus 1 -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

or

PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

In both cases the same issue "CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)" .

Anyone that could help me I appreciate, thanks in advanced

For 1060 3GB + W10 the best is Claymore 11.6: stable, no errors about memory, 0% developer fee!!

[warezzol]

I've tested with Windows 7 and works great, now I want to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c with Windows 10.0.16299.334 with the last patches in the same Workstation (Intel s5000psl, 2 Intel Xeon E5450 processors for a total of 8 cores, 32Gb RAM, EVGA nVidia 1060GTX 3Gb, a virtual memory assigned to 16Gb Min/64Gb Max) but appear the follow issue:

GPU1: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (pcie 7), CUDA cap. 6.1, 3 GB VRAM, 9 CUs
Listening for CDM Remote manager at port 3333 in read only
Eth: the pool list contains 4 pools
Eth: primary pool: eu1.ethpool.org:3333
Starting GPU mining
Eth: Connection to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (proto: QtMiner)
Eth:Connected to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (35.198.113.32)
GPU1: 54C 16%
Eth: New Job #03b29753 from eu1.ethpool.org:3333; diff 4000MH
GPU1: Starting up...(0)
Eth: Generating light cache for epoch #178
Eth: Allocating DAG (2.41) GB; good for epoch up to #180
Eth speed: 0.000 M/s, shares: 0/0/0, time: 0:00
CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)
GPU1 initMiner error: out of memory
Thread(s)  not responding. Restarting.

In an infinite loop until I close the window, I've used the following syntax in the bat file:

PhoenixMiner.exe -coin eth -nvidia -gpus 1 -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

or

PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

In both cases the same issue "CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)" .

Anyone that could help me I appreciate, thanks in advanced

Hello, friend!
Use  option -eres 0

[UnclWish]

I noticed that PM constantly uses 1.5-2% of CPU power during mining. Why? Can it be reduced?

[DonQuijote]

what is the best gpu for your miner? (ROI)

[roniux]

I've tested with Windows 7 and works great, now I want to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c with Windows 10.0.16299.334 with the last patches in the same Workstation (Intel s5000psl, 2 Intel Xeon E5450 processors for a total of 8 cores, 32Gb RAM, EVGA nVidia 1060GTX 3Gb, a virtual memory assigned to 16Gb Min/64Gb Max) but appear the follow issue:

GPU1: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (pcie 7), CUDA cap. 6.1, 3 GB VRAM, 9 CUs
Listening for CDM Remote manager at port 3333 in read only
Eth: the pool list contains 4 pools
Eth: primary pool: eu1.ethpool.org:3333
Starting GPU mining
Eth: Connection to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (proto: QtMiner)
Eth:Connected to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (35.198.113.32)
GPU1: 54C 16%
Eth: New Job #03b29753 from eu1.ethpool.org:3333; diff 4000MH
GPU1: Starting up...(0)
Eth: Generating light cache for epoch #178
Eth: Allocating DAG (2.41) GB; good for epoch up to #180
Eth speed: 0.000 M/s, shares: 0/0/0, time: 0:00
CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)
GPU1 initMiner error: out of memory
Thread(s)  not responding. Restarting.

In an infinite loop until I close the window, I've used the following syntax in the bat file:

PhoenixMiner.exe -coin eth -nvidia -gpus 1 -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

or

PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

In both cases the same issue "CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)" .

Anyone that could help me I appreciate, thanks in advanced

Hello, friend!
Use  option -eres 0

I've tested with Windows 7 and works great, now I want to run PhoenixMiner 2.8c with Windows 10.0.16299.334 with the last patches in the same Workstation (Intel s5000psl, 2 Intel Xeon E5450 processors for a total of 8 cores, 32Gb RAM, EVGA nVidia 1060GTX 3Gb, a virtual memory assigned to 16Gb Min/64Gb Max) but appear the follow issue:

GPU1: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (pcie 7), CUDA cap. 6.1, 3 GB VRAM, 9 CUs
Listening for CDM Remote manager at port 3333 in read only
Eth: the pool list contains 4 pools
Eth: primary pool: eu1.ethpool.org:3333
Starting GPU mining
Eth: Connection to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (proto: QtMiner)
Eth:Connected to ethash pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 (35.198.113.32)
GPU1: 54C 16%
Eth: New Job #03b29753 from eu1.ethpool.org:3333; diff 4000MH
GPU1: Starting up...(0)
Eth: Generating light cache for epoch #178
Eth: Allocating DAG (2.41) GB; good for epoch up to #180
Eth speed: 0.000 M/s, shares: 0/0/0, time: 0:00
CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)
GPU1 initMiner error: out of memory
Thread(s)  not responding. Restarting.

In an infinite loop until I close the window, I've used the following syntax in the bat file:

PhoenixMiner.exe -coin eth -nvidia -gpus 1 -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

or

PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eu1.ethpool.org:3333 -pool2 asia1.ethpool.org:3333 -wal wallet.workername -proto 3

In both cases the same issue "CUDA error in CudaProgram.cu:205 : out of memory (2)" .

Anyone that could help me I appreciate, thanks in advanced

Hello, friend!
Use  option -eres 0

Thanks for your suggestion, I've tested with -eres 0, -eres 1, -eres 2 and -eres 0 -lidag 1, but the same issue, at this time I've downloaded and installed the driver 388.13 from nVidia, just reboot my workstation and I will test again. Thanks

[Digital_Seytan]

Latest version is v11.6:

- improved hashrate for weak Nvidia cards by about 1%.
- zero devfee for 3GB cards in Windows 10, same as for all 2GB cards.
- applied some tricks to increase available memory for 3GB cards in Windows 10 so you can mine ETH a bit longer.
- now you can press "y" key to turn on "Compute Mode" in AMD drivers for all cards (Windows only).
- Linux version: removed openssl library dependency.
- improved "-logfile" option, now you can use it to specify a folder for log files, use slash at the end to do it, for example, "-logfile logs\".
- added "-epoolsfile" and "-dpoolsfile" options.
- remote management: now "miner_getstat2" command also returns PCI bus index for every GPU.
- a few minor bug fixes and improvements.


LINKS:

DOWNLOAD:  https://mirrorace.com/m/2M83y

For 1060 3GB + W10 the best is Claymore 11.6: stable, no errors about memory, 0% developer fee!!