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

[UserU]

I don't like some of zertor's arguments either, but his idea to have booth official and the beta releases in the first post, will make this thread more organized and safer. For example, people, looking for the miner and never read this thread can found what they need in the first place.

The moment those malware bots post something here, chances are high that someone would fall victim before the original uploader realizes, because they tend to post at irregular intervals, and also come in several ranks, including some highly-ranked ones.

The only thing is to report when we see such posts, there would always be one or two that would not read the OP before getting infected.

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[relax69]

I agree with Rickirs,unless you specifically implement the LHR mode like many of the other miners are doing you are going to lose clients from the Nvidia side,personally I am happy from quite a lot of time with your miner as I mainly have AMD cards but it is a shame that you have not implemented some kind of LHR tune yet,hopefully this will be fixed in the upcoming releases.

I don't have any LHR cards, but my 3070 non-LHR does not perform well with PM either. The miner needs improvements for all Nvidia cards too.
Also, I have on the way RX 6600 non-XT. Is that card will be supported in the beta release the same way as the XT models?

[PhoenixMiner]

Is PM fully compatible with WIN11 ? Any trouble with win11 ? I'm a small miner using my main computer which is win11 compliant but i'm concerned about any issue if i patch it to 11.

   Yes, we have tested on Windows 11 with both AMD and Nvidia cards, everything should work as in Win10 with the same drivers.

Why you don't keep downloads only in your 1st post in this topic?
And post notification eventually for a new version as a replies,
but keep all downloads in your 1st post only and not from a replies.

    Because then everyone will download and install the beta version from the first post, ignoring that it is in "beta" status, and if there are some problems with it we will never hear the end of it. Plus, it is not likely that this will stop the "fake" updates from appearing in our thread.

how to use optimized kernels for AMD RX6600XT cards ?

    They will be used automatically instead of the generic kernels, leading to slightly higher hashrate and much less stale shares.

I agree with Rickirs,unless you specifically implement the LHR mode like many of the other miners are doing you are going to lose clients from the Nvidia side,personally I am happy from quite a lot of time with your miner as I mainly have AMD cards but it is a shame that you have not implemented some kind of LHR tune yet,hopefully this will be fixed in the upcoming releases.

     Hopefully there will be kernels for Nvidia LHR cards in the next release. It is a shame but we don't strive to be the best in everything - all power to our competitors that implemented it before us. After all, the crypto is doomed if is not sufficiently decentralized, including in the area of mining software.

Also, I have on the way RX 6600 non-XT. Is that card will be supported in the beta release the same way as the XT models?

   Should be supported, but we were unable to test because we don't have 6600 non-XT yet in our hands. Let us know if you have any problems with it.

[dazmann]

To everyone concerned with the fake update links, at the left side of the post where the user information is shown just give a trust +1 to PhoenixMiner, so every time you see the green +1 trust you will know it is the real one. For every other user who posts links to a fake miner, click on the down right corner to report to a moderator, just type "malware" on the textbox and send. Then on the left side of the post again click "ignore" and the post will be hidden for you.

[UserU]

To everyone concerned with the fake update links, at the left side of the post where the user information is shown just give a trust +1 to PhoenixMiner, so every time you see the green +1 trust you will know it is the real one. For every other user who posts links to a fake miner, click on the down right corner to report to a moderator, just type "malware" on the textbox and send. Then on the left side of the post again click "ignore" and the post will be hidden for you.

You don't really have to do the bolded. Mods take swift action shortly after reporting.

[soda37]

     Hopefully there will be kernels for Nvidia LHR cards in the next release. It is a shame but we don't strive to be the best in everything - all power to our competitors that implemented it before us. After all, the crypto is doomed if is not sufficiently decentralized, including in the area of mining software.

When should we expect new release? Can you please give us ETA so we don't panic next time when you disappear from the forum for some time?

[janding]

I guess I'm one of the happy miners today.
I did the upgrade to 5.8b yesterday. My speed increased from 166.25 to 166.683 MH/s
Not a big gain but it is an improvement and I like it. No issues at all so far.
Been running 24 hrs.

Thanks Phoenix

Code:

*** 24:00 *** 10/18 19:57 **************************************
Eth: Mining ETC on ssl://us1-etc.ethermine.org:5555 for 24:00
GPUs: 1: 33.505 MH/s (699) 2: 33.273 MH/s (708) 3: 33.602 MH/s (645) 4: 33.144 MH/s (686/4) 5: 33.235 MH/s (736/1)
GPU1: 64C 69% 107W, GPU2: 65C 47% 97W, GPU3: 65C 26% 105W, GPU4: 65C 40% 98W, GPU5: 64C 47% 98W

Available GPUs for mining:
GPU1: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 2), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU2: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 3), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU3: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 4), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU4: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 6), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU5: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 7), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs

GPUs power: 504.2 W; cost: 0.61 USD/day; 331 kH/J
Current -gt 13,13,13,14,13
Eth: Accepted shares 3474 (2 stales), rejected shares 0 (0 stales)
Eth: Incorrect shares 5 (0.14%), est. stales percentage 0.06%
Eth: Maximum difficulty of found share: 134.7 TH (!!!)
Eth: Average speed (5 min): 166.683 MH/s
Eth: Effective speed: 160.77 MH/s; at pool: 160.77 MH/s
Eth: Estimated income: 6.94 USD/day

[Lafu]

To everyone concerned with the fake update links, at the left side of the post where the user information is shown just give a trust +1 to PhoenixMiner, so every time you see the green +1 trust you will know it is the real one. For every other user who posts links to a fake miner, click on the down right corner to report to a moderator, just type "malware" on the textbox and send. Then on the left side of the post again click "ignore" and the post will be hidden for you.

Report to the Moderator is for sure the best option and needed , and you can also write in my thread here : Report Malware and Suspicious Links here so Mods can take Action ! if possible .
Reason for that its mostly hacked Accounts that posting it and sometimes its making things a bit easier for recover them .
Also its good for me to know and when there is a new Fake Github Account behind the links i can report them on Github , got the most of them deleted the last Month.

[ardeverb]

Hello,

I have a Nvidia CMP 170HX card which is fanless. I want to use it with phoenixminer and HiveOS but Phoenixminer gives an error that it cannot get fan speed infomation back. Any advice how to solve this problem?

[Gaelyon]

Thanks for answering my questions, PhoenixMiner 

[ardeverb]

hello,

I have got this problem with the 5.8B version.

Hello,

I have a Nvidia CMP 170HX card which is fanless. I want to use it with phoenixminer and HiveOS but Phoenixminer gives an error that it cannot get fan speed infomation back. Any advice how to solve this problem?

The exact error is Error GPU1: unable to get fan speed - Not Supported (3)

Thanks

[relax69]

hello,

I have got this problem with the 5.8B version.

Hello,

I have a Nvidia CMP 170HX card which is fanless. I want to use it with phoenixminer and HiveOS but Phoenixminer gives an error that it cannot get fan speed infomation back. Any advice how to solve this problem?

The exact error is Error GPU1: unable to get fan speed - Not Supported (3)

Thanks

Wow, congrats on that card. Where did you find it and for how much?

If I had this card, I would try to turn OFF the fan control from the top menu in hive os and will use these settings in the TUNING section:

Code:

-tt 0
-fcm 1

Also, you can find more commands and options for fan control and hardware control in the readme file.

If none of these options make it work, I would try with a different miner or with a different OS.
I would experiment with every single option until I made it work. Good luck.

[PhoenixMiner]

Hello,

I have a Nvidia CMP 170HX card which is fanless. I want to use it with phoenixminer and HiveOS but Phoenixminer gives an error that it cannot get fan speed infomation back. Any advice how to solve this problem?

     We will check what can be done, perhaps to report this once and then just report 0% as fan speed without further errors. As we are making some fixes in Linux version of 5.8b for some unrelated problems, we will include this in 5.8c, which will be ready in a day or two. Note that 5.8b for Windows has no important issues so far, and will probably be the release version soon.

When should we expect new release? Can you please give us ETA so we don't panic next time when you disappear from the forum for some time?

     Before the end of the year. We are monitoring the forum all the time but will only react if something extraordinary happens. It's just not possible to answer every post with questions.

I guess I'm one of the happy miners today.
I did the upgrade to 5.8b yesterday. My speed increased from 166.25 to 166.683 MH/s
Not a big gain but it is an improvement and I like it. No issues at all so far.
Been running 24 hrs.

Thanks Phoenix

Code:

*** 24:00 *** 10/18 19:57 **************************************
Eth: Mining ETC on ssl://us1-etc.ethermine.org:5555 for 24:00
GPUs: 1: 33.505 MH/s (699) 2: 33.273 MH/s (708) 3: 33.602 MH/s (645) 4: 33.144 MH/s (686/4) 5: 33.235 MH/s (736/1)
GPU1: 64C 69% 107W, GPU2: 65C 47% 97W, GPU3: 65C 26% 105W, GPU4: 65C 40% 98W, GPU5: 64C 47% 98W

Available GPUs for mining:
GPU1: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 2), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU2: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 3), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU3: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 4), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU4: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 6), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU5: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 7), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs

GPUs power: 504.2 W; cost: 0.61 USD/day; 331 kH/J
Current -gt 13,13,13,14,13
Eth: Accepted shares 3474 (2 stales), rejected shares 0 (0 stales)
Eth: Incorrect shares 5 (0.14%), est. stales percentage 0.06%
Eth: Maximum difficulty of found share: 134.7 TH (!!!)
Eth: Average speed (5 min): 166.683 MH/s
Eth: Effective speed: 160.77 MH/s; at pool: 160.77 MH/s
Eth: Estimated income: 6.94 USD/day

    Well, that's better than in our internal testing. Probably because of the more extreme timings on your cards - we keep our cards on fairly conservative timings to be sure that when something goes wrong, it's not an overclocking instability.

[ardeverb]

I bought 2 cards for $3900 dollars each from a reseller (akminer) in China. i have got them running with ethminer in hiveos currently. I always use phoenix miner for all miner other rigs and this mineris my favorite for eth. I have got them running at 440 watt at 304 MH and very stable. They need cooling so i had to place them in the air wave of my cooling system. They run at 70 degrees on this temperature with a power limit of 220 watt. Standard PL is 250 watt. The 30 watt lower costs only 4 MH but they run lot cooler.

hello,

I have got this problem with the 5.8B version.

Hello,

I have a Nvidia CMP 170HX card which is fanless. I want to use it with phoenixminer and HiveOS but Phoenixminer gives an error that it cannot get fan speed infomation back. Any advice how to solve this problem?

The exact error is Error GPU1: unable to get fan speed - Not Supported (3)

Thanks

Wow, congrats on that card. Where did you find it and for how much?

If I had this card, I would try to turn OFF the fan control from the top menu in hive os and will use these settings in the TUNING section:

Code:

-tt 0
-fcm 1

Also, you can find more commands and options for fan control and hardware control in the readme file.

If none of these options make it work, I would try with a different miner or with a different OS.
I would experiment with every single option until I made it work. Good luck.

[ardeverb]

Thanks for your quick response. Appreciated. Not sure how fast HiveOS implements this in their software but i will looking forward to test the 5.8c version.

Hello,

I have a Nvidia CMP 170HX card which is fanless. I want to use it with phoenixminer and HiveOS but Phoenixminer gives an error that it cannot get fan speed infomation back. Any advice how to solve this problem?

    We will check what can be done, perhaps to report this once and then just report 0% as fan speed without further errors. As we are making some fixes in Linux version of 5.8b for some unrelated problems, we will include this in 5.8c, which will be ready in a day or two. Note that 5.8b for Windows has no important issues so far, and will probably be the release version soon.

When should we expect new release? Can you please give us ETA so we don't panic next time when you disappear from the forum for some time?

    Before the end of the year. We are monitoring the forum all the time but will only react if something extraordinary happens. It's just not possible to answer every post with questions.

I guess I'm one of the happy miners today.
I did the upgrade to 5.8b yesterday. My speed increased from 166.25 to 166.683 MH/s
Not a big gain but it is an improvement and I like it. No issues at all so far.
Been running 24 hrs.

Thanks Phoenix

Code:

*** 24:00 *** 10/18 19:57 **************************************
Eth: Mining ETC on ssl://us1-etc.ethermine.org:5555 for 24:00
GPUs: 1: 33.505 MH/s (699) 2: 33.273 MH/s (708) 3: 33.602 MH/s (645) 4: 33.144 MH/s (686/4) 5: 33.235 MH/s (736/1)
GPU1: 64C 69% 107W, GPU2: 65C 47% 97W, GPU3: 65C 26% 105W, GPU4: 65C 40% 98W, GPU5: 64C 47% 98W

Available GPUs for mining:
GPU1: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 2), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU2: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 3), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU3: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 4), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU4: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 6), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs
GPU5: Radeon RX 580 Series (pcie 7), OpenCL 2.0, 4 GB VRAM, 36 CUs

GPUs power: 504.2 W; cost: 0.61 USD/day; 331 kH/J
Current -gt 13,13,13,14,13
Eth: Accepted shares 3474 (2 stales), rejected shares 0 (0 stales)
Eth: Incorrect shares 5 (0.14%), est. stales percentage 0.06%
Eth: Maximum difficulty of found share: 134.7 TH (!!!)
Eth: Average speed (5 min): 166.683 MH/s
Eth: Effective speed: 160.77 MH/s; at pool: 160.77 MH/s
Eth: Estimated income: 6.94 USD/day

   Well, that's better than in our internal testing. Probably because of the more extreme timings on your cards - we keep our cards on fairly conservative timings to be sure that when something goes wrong, it's not an overclocking instability.

[ironmanred]

Is anyone running 5700XT with AMD 21.10.2 driver? The reason I ask is because I have one rig with 5700XT only and uses 21.3.2 for now. It is stable. I got one 6600 which requires 21.10.2. If I add 6600 onto the rig with 5700XT, I will have to use 21.10.2 driver. Please let me know if there is any issue to use 21.10.2 with 5700XT or not. 

[VRMdude]

Anybody got PM  5.8b working in linux with multiple RX6800XT on driver 21.30 or any driver above 20.40?

I was delighted to see the update for the beta version 5.8b above however with a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04.3 kernel 5.11 and driver 21.30 promised working in PM post above but clinfo doesnt even see a single card just the IGFX which obv isnt used for mining. Using chipset B550 and the only way i have ever been able to get pm working under ubuntu on driver later than 20.40 is single GPU only long ago. Maybe its a bios thing im not used to such modern mobo, currently got pci set to gen 1 - Any ideas? And in my defence i wil state that without touching a bios setting i can boot into Manjaro and mine with 6 x RX6800XT although stale shares are running around 20% using driver 20.40 and opencl as per this info: https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/6900xt-and-opencl-on-linux/td-p/439474/page/2


Read about an issue with multiple GPUs caused by ROCR PCIE 3.0 atomics as per link below...have tried it without success...... Currently stuck on Manjero with driver 20.40 and clkernel0 which gives an undesirable stale share volume though it is stable and have full control...

https://www.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/ptmyjd/ubuntu_20043_amdgpu_2130_opencl_rocr_rocm/


UBUNTU TESTING

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Driver 21.30  gave these warnings

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-38-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/yellow_carp_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vangogh_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for module amdgpu

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Driver 21.20 gave these warnings

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.11.0-38-generic
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vangogh_gpu_info.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for module amdgpu

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All I have seen in Ubuntu with RX6000 is:


Phoenix Miner 5.8b Linux/gcc - Release build
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OpenCL driver version: 21.30-1290604-rocr
Unable to use OpenCL device Device 1638 (pcie 26) for Ethash mining  <---- IGFX not to concerned...
No avaiable GPUs for mining. Please check your drivers and/or hardware.

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QUESTION

Dear PM, would you recommend the very latest Linux Kernel under ubuntu or another kernel option?

[PhoenixMiner]

Is anyone running 5700XT with AMD 21.10.2 driver? The reason I ask is because I have one rig with 5700XT only and uses 21.3.2 for now. It is stable. I got one 6600 which requires 21.10.2. If I add 6600 onto the rig with 5700XT, I will have to use 21.10.2 driver. Please let me know if there is any issue to use 21.10.2 with 5700XT or not. 

    It shouldn't be a problem to run 5700XT and 6600 on the same rig with 21.10.2. The latest drivers will have problems only with very old cards like Baffin or Gfx804 (RX 460/550/560), or anything older than Polaris. Polaris cards (RX 470/480/570/580/590), Vega, RX5x00, and RX6x00 cards will work fine with the latest drivers. We haven't tested with 6600 yet but the we managed to order a few of them so we will be able to confirm that they work in a week or so.

Anybody got PM  5.8b working in linux with multiple RX6800XT on driver 21.30 or any driver above 20.40?

I was delighted to see the update for the beta version 5.8b above however with a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04.3 kernel 5.11 and driver 21.30 promised working in PM post above but clinfo doesnt even see a single card just the IGFX which obv isnt used for mining. Using chipset B550 and the only way i have ever been able to get pm working under ubuntu on driver later than 20.40 is single GPU only long ago. Maybe its a bios thing im not used to such modern mobo, currently got pci set to gen 1 - Any ideas? And in my defence i wil state that without touching a bios setting i can boot into Manjaro and mine with 6 x RX6800XT although stale shares are running around 20% using driver 20.40 and opencl as per this info: https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/6900xt-and-opencl-on-linux/td-p/439474/page/2


Read about an issue with multiple GPUs caused by ROCR PCIE 3.0 atomics as per link below...have tried it without success...... Currently stuck on Manjero with driver 20.40 and clkernel0 which gives an undesirable stale share volume though it is stable and have full control...

https://www.reddit.com/r/gpumining/comments/ptmyjd/ubuntu_20043_amdgpu_2130_opencl_rocr_rocm/

   Unfortunately this is a limitation of the new ROCr driver itself - it usually means that the RX6x00 cards will work only on the PCIe slots that are connected directly to the CPU PCIe lanes. On the most consumer-level motherboards this means only 1 or 2 slots (usually the first PCIe 16x slot closer to the CPU socket). However, if you are able to see RX6800 in other slots using the older drivers (like 20.40), the upcoming PhoenixMiner 5.8c for Linux should solve the stale shares problem.



 

[ironmanred]

    It shouldn't be a problem to run 5700XT and 6600 on the same rig with 21.10.2. The latest drivers will have problems only with very old cards like Baffin or Gfx804 (RX 460/550/560), or anything older than Polaris. Polaris cards (RX 470/480/570/580/590), Vega, RX5x00, and RX6x00 cards will work fine with the latest drivers. We haven't tested with 6600 yet but the we managed to order a few of them so we will be able to confirm that they work in a week or so.

It is good to know and thank you for the advise. Normally I don't use AMD driver when it is released immediately as I had bad experience with 21.4.1 and 21.5.1 with 5700XT. I will try it out soon.

[Verbl Kint]

I was delighted to see the update for the beta version 5.8b above however with a fresh install of ubuntu 20.04.3 kernel 5.11 and driver 21.30 promised working in PM post above but clinfo doesnt even see a single card just the IGFX which obv isnt used for mining. Using chipset B550 and the only way i have ever been able to get pm working under ubuntu on driver later than 20.40 is single GPU only long ago. Maybe its a bios thing im not used to such modern mobo, currently got pci set to gen 1 - Any ideas? And in my defence i wil state that without touching a bios setting i can boot into Manjaro and mine with 6 x RX6800XT although stale shares are running around 20% using driver 20.40 and opencl as per this info: https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/6900xt-and-opencl-on-linux/td-p/439474/page/2

I would do these on your BIOS settings:

• Set PCIe to Gen 2
• 4G decoding turned on (cryptomining mode in some boards)
• Turn off any overclocking (including on RAM -- XMP)