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

[Targonis]

why does your miner come as a virus and why does using it unleash a coinmer virus , i wonder what else phoenix miner dows while using it , probably scans your drives hoping for wallets to hack , how many people lost crypto if they had a wallet on the same system as mining i wonder , lets do a poll. if it comes up as a virus in the new version nobody should use it.

There are a number of viruses/malware that use mining engines.   The idea is to infect as many computers as possible and then use them to mine for the author of the virus/malware.   As a result, most legit miners are picked up as a "virus", because they don't know what is intentional mining and what is an infection.

[Verbl Kint]

3. Finally last issue is 6800xt im using newer drivers 21.3.2 and have to use -clkernel 0
I get message "Unknown OpenCL driver version! OpenCL platform: OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP"
Phoenixminer tells me I get 20%ish stale shares but still get 60-70mh/s over time,
when I check my pool website it says normally 3% max is 5%.
Is this actually an issue also considering Im in Australia and pool is in Asia. Get 160ms share returns.
If i did downgrade to say 21.1.1 would this even make any difference?

21.3.2 isn't fully supported yet, roll the driver back to 21.1.1 and use -clkernel 1

160 ms is not ideal, try to find a server with a ping rate under 100 ms, if at all possible.  Reject/stale share rates should be under 2% on wifi or under 1% on ethernet.

[Eldridge]

• The specific hashrate is now shown in the form of kilo hashes per joule (kH/J). Example: if a GPU has hashrate of 30 MH/s with 100W power usage, the specific hashrate is 300 kH/J

Where is the "specific hashrate" in kH/joules? I've switched to 5.6a and I'm still seeing hashrate in MH/s on the screen and in the logs:

021.04.19:00:00:28.465: main GPUs: 1: 43.268 MH/s (6) 2: 44.619 MH/s (10)
2021.04.19:00:00:31.256: eths Eth: Received: {"id":0,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":["0xc9a80c719e3f4d8406228507678e6daad93f5dcf54c58c9d94547078b6b1f663","0xba5586fb4d9d316d3a8d5834d9b1a48f50d7c428281b93d90be12d67409c59af","0x0000000112e0be826d694b2e62d01511f12a6061fbaec8bc02357593e70e52ba","0xbb33e5"]}
2021.04.19:00:00:31.256: eths Eth: New job #c9a80c71 from ssl://us2.ethermine.org:5555; diff: 4000MH
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main  
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main *** 0:15 *** 4/19 00:00 **************************************
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main Eth: Mining ETH on ssl://us2.ethermine.org:5555 for 0:15
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main Eth: Accepted shares 16 (0 stales), rejected shares 0 (0 stales)
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main Eth: Incorrect shares 0 (0.00%), est. stales percentage 0.00%
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main Eth: Maximum difficulty of found share: 105.2 GH (!)
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main Eth: Average speed (5 min): 87.919 MH/s
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main Eth: Effective speed: 67.51 MH/s; at pool: 67.51 MH/s
2021.04.19:00:00:33.237: main Eth: Estimated income: 8.88 USD/day

[P00P135]

lol these 5.5d malware idiots are still spamming this version

[SherwoodRanger]

if it puts out trojans retard its a fucking virus and as for noob thats on your name twat , i been mining before your dad fucked your mother up her ass to produce a sniveling little shitweazel like you fucking tard, a virus is a virus u tard.

Someone missed sex education class

[Nihil5]

why does your miner come as a virus and why does using it unleash a coinmer virus , i wonder what else phoenix miner dows while using it , probably scans your drives hoping for wallets to hack , how many people lost crypto if they had a wallet on the same system as mining i wonder , lets do a poll. if it comes up as a virus in the new version nobody should use it.

There are a number of viruses/malware that use mining engines.   The idea is to infect as many computers as possible and then use them to mine for the author of the virus/malware.   As a result, most legit miners are picked up as a "virus", because they don't know what is intentional mining and what is an infection.

Not only that but they also use quite a few code obfuscation techniques common to malicious software, so a lot of DNN based heuristic detection systems flag them since very little legitimate software is so heavily obfuscated.

That said I think explaining this to this particular individual, looking at his later posts, may be a lost cause. One of the signs that mining has peaked I suppose; even complete idiots barely capable of tying their shoelaces are trying to get in on it.

[Targonis]

why does your miner come as a virus and why does using it unleash a coinmer virus , i wonder what else phoenix miner dows while using it , probably scans your drives hoping for wallets to hack , how many people lost crypto if they had a wallet on the same system as mining i wonder , lets do a poll. if it comes up as a virus in the new version nobody should use it.

There are a number of viruses/malware that use mining engines.   The idea is to infect as many computers as possible and then use them to mine for the author of the virus/malware.   As a result, most legit miners are picked up as a "virus", because they don't know what is intentional mining and what is an infection.

Not only that but they also use quite a few code obfuscation techniques common to malicious software, so a lot of DNN based heuristic detection systems flag them since very little legitimate software is so heavily obfuscated.

That said I think explaining this to this particular individual, looking at his later posts, may be a lost cause. One of the signs that mining has peaked I suppose; even complete idiots barely capable of tying their shoelaces are trying to get in on it.

Good point.   I tried to explain it, but some people are unable to understand a basic concept.

[wOvAN]

The new beta version is finally ready. You can download PhoenixMiner 5.6a from here:

PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Windows.zip (GitHub)
PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Linux.tar.gz (GitHub)

To check the integrity of the downloaded file, please use the following hashes (you need the last file PhoenixMiner_NVRTC_Windows.zip only if you want to mine BCI with Nvdia cards under Windows):

Code:

    File: PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Windows.zip
    ===================================
   SHA-1: e9134f0b3985e967597f1e82c1cd7b0246fe4568
 SHA-256: e3e10bc0ed7af17c4f38fb8314f9c72350750a554475498346f67a0a590e759b
 SHA-512: 66b3e39daaadcb85fb79143697d8e10f7fc27bc8fc464f48ce1f362fc96235b15aa8a78bcfc547cd1416ebed19bb6e65746136a93318bc17875f50754ba90e57

    File: PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Linux.tar.gz
    ====================================
   SHA-1: d733df2b92876a1ecaff8c7d1f8fe6d5bf675f2d
 SHA-256: 671218da670fc02318e3b4c296b9335984997a512242bdc7d17ed2cde2506de0
 SHA-512: b38934dbdbaff49894ee30d4ae2937b84cd9f997432d68fffc8e23fb1cf8cab57d139533eee354b3be6625987bf628956c54826d42a21bbcebdc76edc3e521d4

    File: PhoenixMiner_NVRTC_Windows.zip
    ====================================
   SHA-1: ff6fa5e018adbd52caf631c42b7c2fac7ce48a51
 SHA-256: 8087757169405d51ea8ba818347fb05d0450aef985c29272165070346eb5a54a
 SHA-512: 7b2d832f7f40578bb1f501d5174467f5ae06612e601dab769fd56d39da48a471b18c6373435a485155f70fec4017d8378797bf1e1dfe5d62fee30fa6a1d992c4

The new features in this release are:

• Added native kernels for AMD RX6700 GPUs. These are faster than the generic kernels and produce a lot less stale shares
• Increase the max supported DAG epoch to 550 (should be enough to about Jan 2023)
• Full support for setting clocks, fan speeds, voltages, and memory timings of AMD RX6900/6800/6700 cards
• The specific hashrate is now shown in the form of kilo hashes per joule (kH/J). Example: if a GPU has hashrate of 30 MH/s with 100W power usage, the specific hashrate is 300 kH/J
• Added new command-line parameters -ttj and -ttmem, allowing automatic fan speed control based on GPU hotspot (junction), and memory temperatures respectively. Example: -ttmem 83 will keep the GPU memory temperature at or bellow 83C by increasing the fan speed as necessary. These parameters can be combined with -tt, as well as with each other. These options are supported only on AMD GPUs that report junction and memory temperatures
• Added new command-line parameters -tmaxj and -tmaxmem, allowing to decrease the GPU usage when the GPU hotspot (junction), or GPU memory temperatures are above the specified thresholds. These options are supported only on AMD GPUs that report junction and memory temperatures
• Added support for AMD Windows drivers 21.3.2, and 21.3.1
• Added support for AMD Linux drivers 20.50.x. Use this drivers only if you have Polaris or older GPUs, or the latest RX6x000 GPUs. WARNING: Vega, Radeon VII, and Navi GPUs won't work with these drivers!
• Turn off the zero fan feature on AMD cards whenever a fixed fan speed is used (e.g. -tt -40), or when an auto fan with min fan speed is used (e.g. -tt 63 -minfan 35). To disable this feature, add -fanstop 1 command-line parameter
• When -mcdag 1 is specified under Linux, the miner will not wait for the daggen.sh script to finish before starting to generate the DAGs. Instead it will for a fixed 7 seconds. This allows you to do all the following in the daggen.sh: turn off the overclocking of Nvidia GPUs, sleep for 30-60 seconds to allow time for DAG generation, and then re-apply the overclocking of the Nvidia GPUs
• Other small improvements and fixes

The support for -ttj, -ttmem, -tmaxj, and -tmaxmem for Nvidia 3090 and 3080 GPUs is not yet ready for release. We hope to have it ready for the final 5.6 release.

For more robust integrity check, you can use our GPG public key, which was verifyed with ETH transaction from our main devfee account as explained here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2647654.msg56755869#msg56755869. Here are the signatures for the files in this release:

• PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Windows.zip.asc
• PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Linux.tar.gz.asc
• PhoenixMiner_NVRTC_Windows.zip.asc

Please let us know if you have any problems or questions related to PhoenixMiner 5.6a.

Bug: No temps in on Nvidia cards in Windows driver 461.92

[tonyhinkle]

Will RTX 3060 mine without installation on a motherboard, speed 48-50 mh / s?

No.  The known workarounds have nothing to do with the miner (PhoenixMiner, etc.).  Three conditions are required to get a 3060 to sustain full hashrate:

• Directly connected to a PCIe x16 slot (risers do not work, but from what I understand a PCI extension cable should work)
• The Nvidia 470.05 development driver
• A powered-on monitor or an HDMI dummy plug connected

See https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/m65tc4/rtx_3060_share_what_works_what_doesnt_on_47005/

[jetwalsh]

The new beta version is finally ready. You can download PhoenixMiner 5.6a from here:

PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Windows.zip (GitHub)
PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Linux.tar.gz (GitHub)

To check the integrity of the downloaded file, please use the following hashes (you need the last file PhoenixMiner_NVRTC_Windows.zip only if you want to mine BCI with Nvdia cards under Windows):

Code:

    File: PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Windows.zip
    ===================================
   SHA-1: e9134f0b3985e967597f1e82c1cd7b0246fe4568
 SHA-256: e3e10bc0ed7af17c4f38fb8314f9c72350750a554475498346f67a0a590e759b
 SHA-512: 66b3e39daaadcb85fb79143697d8e10f7fc27bc8fc464f48ce1f362fc96235b15aa8a78bcfc547cd1416ebed19bb6e65746136a93318bc17875f50754ba90e57

    File: PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Linux.tar.gz
    ====================================
   SHA-1: d733df2b92876a1ecaff8c7d1f8fe6d5bf675f2d
 SHA-256: 671218da670fc02318e3b4c296b9335984997a512242bdc7d17ed2cde2506de0
 SHA-512: b38934dbdbaff49894ee30d4ae2937b84cd9f997432d68fffc8e23fb1cf8cab57d139533eee354b3be6625987bf628956c54826d42a21bbcebdc76edc3e521d4

    File: PhoenixMiner_NVRTC_Windows.zip
    ====================================
   SHA-1: ff6fa5e018adbd52caf631c42b7c2fac7ce48a51
 SHA-256: 8087757169405d51ea8ba818347fb05d0450aef985c29272165070346eb5a54a
 SHA-512: 7b2d832f7f40578bb1f501d5174467f5ae06612e601dab769fd56d39da48a471b18c6373435a485155f70fec4017d8378797bf1e1dfe5d62fee30fa6a1d992c4

The new features in this release are:

• Added native kernels for AMD RX6700 GPUs. These are faster than the generic kernels and produce a lot less stale shares
• Increase the max supported DAG epoch to 550 (should be enough to about Jan 2023)
• Full support for setting clocks, fan speeds, voltages, and memory timings of AMD RX6900/6800/6700 cards
• The specific hashrate is now shown in the form of kilo hashes per joule (kH/J). Example: if a GPU has hashrate of 30 MH/s with 100W power usage, the specific hashrate is 300 kH/J
• Added new command-line parameters -ttj and -ttmem, allowing automatic fan speed control based on GPU hotspot (junction), and memory temperatures respectively. Example: -ttmem 83 will keep the GPU memory temperature at or bellow 83C by increasing the fan speed as necessary. These parameters can be combined with -tt, as well as with each other. These options are supported only on AMD GPUs that report junction and memory temperatures
• Added new command-line parameters -tmaxj and -tmaxmem, allowing to decrease the GPU usage when the GPU hotspot (junction), or GPU memory temperatures are above the specified thresholds. These options are supported only on AMD GPUs that report junction and memory temperatures
• Added support for AMD Windows drivers 21.3.2, and 21.3.1
• Added support for AMD Linux drivers 20.50.x. Use this drivers only if you have Polaris or older GPUs, or the latest RX6x000 GPUs. WARNING: Vega, Radeon VII, and Navi GPUs won't work with these drivers!
• Turn off the zero fan feature on AMD cards whenever a fixed fan speed is used (e.g. -tt -40), or when an auto fan with min fan speed is used (e.g. -tt 63 -minfan 35). To disable this feature, add -fanstop 1 command-line parameter
• When -mcdag 1 is specified under Linux, the miner will not wait for the daggen.sh script to finish before starting to generate the DAGs. Instead it will for a fixed 7 seconds. This allows you to do all the following in the daggen.sh: turn off the overclocking of Nvidia GPUs, sleep for 30-60 seconds to allow time for DAG generation, and then re-apply the overclocking of the Nvidia GPUs
• Other small improvements and fixes

The support for -ttj, -ttmem, -tmaxj, and -tmaxmem for Nvidia 3090 and 3080 GPUs is not yet ready for release. We hope to have it ready for the final 5.6 release.

For more robust integrity check, you can use our GPG public key, which was verifyed with ETH transaction from our main devfee account as explained here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2647654.msg56755869#msg56755869. Here are the signatures for the files in this release:

• PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Windows.zip.asc
• PhoenixMiner_5.6a_Linux.tar.gz.asc
• PhoenixMiner_NVRTC_Windows.zip.asc

Please let us know if you have any problems or questions related to PhoenixMiner 5.6a.

Bug: No temps in on Nvidia cards in Windows driver 461.92

The wording for option mcdag 1 seemed to have changed.

Original says the following: “ Under Linux -mcdag 1 will execute provided by the user shell script named daggen.sh (if present in the current directory) for each Nvidia GPU, passing the GPU index as the first argument, and PCIE bus ID as second argument. The miner will then wait for about 7 seconds before starting DAG generation to allow the script enough time to reset the memory overclock.” Bad wording on 5.6a or change in how things work?

[P00P135]

Still don't understand why brand new accounts are allowed to post links.  Anyone that is new to this don't download anything in here unless its from the OP.

[nik-qz]

The new beta version is finally ready. You can download PhoenixMiner 5.6a from here:

Tried the new version miner for AMD and
the cores are not very optimized, there are relatively many expired shares, the power consumption is high. TRM miner is doing better with this, so I'll stay on it for now
to be honest, i'm a little disappointed, such a large miner cannot make the proper effort and outperform the competition

[Vann]

Bug: No temps in on Nvidia cards in Windows driver 461.92

Confirm the same for Pascal cards in Linux with 460.67 driver.

[Jarevid]

guys, im running PM5.4c on linux based, i have 5 RTX570 gpus and i have a low hrate.
Can someone help me how to access bat files to see what is wrong cause i tried everything and cant access it?
i wanna check rvram and dagrate if i need to but no luck for me (3 days already)
Not mine rig, im just trying to make it works ok

Tnx in Advance

[miner29]

guys, im running PM5.4c on linux based, i have 5 RTX570 gpus and i have a low hrate.
Can someone help me how to access bat files to see what is wrong cause i tried everything and cant access it?
i wanna check rvram and dagrate if i need to but no luck for me (3 days already)
Not mine rig, im just trying to make it works ok

Tnx in Advance

First off..its linux so its not a .bat files.  It will be a .sh file.  If you cant edit a trxt file in linux how you expect is to help you.  Then you add its not your system.  I mean a simple ‘nano (filename)’ is one method to edit a text file. 

[sxemini]

After the update to 5.6a I can only say that my 5 card AMD miner hasn't experienced any issues.
( But neither did 5.5c ) I will also say it didn't improve anything either. Seems like a pretty poor update.
Few if any real new impressive features. Overall, pretty disappointing for a software release making the devs millions.

This is why i changed to other miners, because they give better real hashrates, better functions and we don´t speak about support, this is more than a pain if you need support from the phoenixminer devs. They don´t here the community and make what he want.

[oblivionxt]

I've had a good experience with 5.6a so far, but, I have an RX 6800 and want the latest drivers for gaming.

As far as I can tell, this release is focused on support for the newest cards and drivers, the driver no longer crashes like clockwork and the newest opencl kernels work.

Hopefully we'll get some new features coming through in the near future, but it seems less likely than ever since I'm sure phoenix took a big hit from the Nicehash attack.

[12val1212]

Please add an option
sending to the com port of the current hash rate in megahashes
(current hash rate in megahashes divided by 10)
preferably one byte .. (0-255)
COM port number to be set in the configuration
I want to make my supervisor on a microcontroller
stm or avr
this option would simplify the task

[StenkaRX]

The new beta version is finally ready. You can download PhoenixMiner 5.6a from here:

Tried the new version miner for AMD and
the cores are not very optimized, there are relatively many expired shares, the power consumption is high. TRM miner is doing better with this, so I'll stay on it for now
to be honest, i'm a little disappointed, such a large miner cannot make the proper effort and outperform the competition

Navi rig here, Phoenix on average hashrate for days performs much better than TRM (yes, comsumption is high but only 4-5w more per card).

And only 0.65 devfee instead of 1% of TRM, happy with Phoenix.

[Targonis]

I just updated to the new AMD drivers(21.4.1), and PhoenixMiner seems to be choking(similar to when 21.3.1 came out with 5.5c.   Radeon 6800 non-XT.   Moving back to 21.3.2 for now.