lolMiner 1.53: Dual mining Eth+Kaspa and more efficient AMD kernels

[WhyMe]

We need an AMD miner for Cortex !

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[jasta more]

We need an AMD miner for Cortex !

you are already late for party on cortex,diff went to moon with new gminer

[Lolliedieb]

Please add --list options to show devices list

A good idea! Will note that for near future features to be added.

Cuckarood29 will no longer be active on Grin's 2nd Hard Fork around Jan 15, 2020,
to be replaced by Cuckaroom29:

https://www.grin-forum.org/t/next-pow-cuckaroom-unveiled-at-grincon1

Thanks John for pointing that out - I will prepare a miner for the fork

We need an AMD miner for Cortex !

you are already late for party on cortex,diff went to moon with new gminer

The problem with Cortex network is that its too small ... gminer was just earlier discovering it and now making a miner is kind of worthless. I mean... Cortex Cuckaroo-30 is an interesting algorithm to tune and it would be a lot of fun. Still I must ROI my time somehow. Just to drop a number: With current C31 code Vega 64 does 1.1 g/s at 180 W (settings: 1380 / 1000 @ 0.912V) making it the 2nd most profitable algorithm after CNR for V64 (!!!). Yet at my fee connector I get about 1 g/s meaning not even 100 of this cards mine this algorithm with my miner. (By the way: stale shares is ~2% and 0 invalids ... thats record breaking for this algo...)
So I am making maybe 35 cents each day from this algo - if it continues this way I can not expect that the time put into coding this ever ROIs for me. Then starting a new similar algorithm for a much smaller network would be just insane - If someone wants to fund the development things turn. For ExchangeCoin for example we had the same problem, but there the devs funded me (3 digit number, so not even too expensive) to build a proper miner, thats also why Exchange Coin was 0 fee in the first releases.

[WhyMe]

Did a test yesterday with 10* rented 1080ti. 10h ago, profit displayed on pool side was like 6$ /day /card ...

EDIT
EXCC was like a joke. 2 pools, lots of chain problems, i was the biggest hashrate on it for a very long time. But i made some good profit on it, for a time.

[MATHReX]

Did a test yesterday with 10* rented 1080ti. 10h ago, profit displqyed on pool side was like 6$ /day /card ...

EDIT
EXCC was like a joke. 2 pools, lots of chain problems, i was the biggest hashrate on it for a very long time. But i made some good profit on it, for a time.

Holy smokes!
That's an amazing profit for a 1080ti with the current market price though.
Is there a thread for it in the Announcement section?
I must have missed it.

I still remember the time when in 2017, there were these newly announced low cap coins which resulted in huge profits compared to ETH and such. One such coin I remember was Signatum.

[rednoW]

Just to drop a number: With current C31 code Vega 64 does 1.1 g/s at 180 W (settings: 1380 / 1000 @ 0.912V) making it the 2nd most profitable algorithm after CNR for V64 (!!!).

You are totally wrong with your calculation. Vega64 can easily make 50+mhs eth with lower than 180w power consumption. ))

[laik2]

Just to drop a number: With current C31 code Vega 64 does 1.1 g/s at 180 W (settings: 1380 / 1000 @ 0.912V) making it the 2nd most profitable algorithm after CNR for V64 (!!!).

You are totally wrong with your calculation. Vega64 can easily make 50+mhs eth with lower than 180w power consumption. ))

You didn't get what he meant. 1.1g/s @ 180W vs 50MH/s @ 160-170W is the comparison which should be used. I am pretty sure you're going to argue that 160-170W, this is Vega64 actual consumption measured at the wall. Vega56 is slightly (150-155W) better for ethash.

[Lolliedieb]

Just to drop a number: With current C31 code Vega 64 does 1.1 g/s at 180 W (settings: 1380 / 1000 @ 0.912V) making it the 2nd most profitable algorithm after CNR for V64 (!!!).

You are totally wrong with your calculation. Vega64 can easily make 50+mhs eth with lower than 180w power consumption. ))

Well ... hmm .. then WTM is off ^^
But even then it does not look too bad - I have to admit with 50 at 170 Ethash wins, next then is SUMO (CNR) and then next is Grin-31 ... so ok right, Ethash is in front but not that much - at least its good enough it should not be such a niche

[GKumaran]

With current C31 code Vega 64 does 1.1 g/s at 180 W (settings: 1380 / 1000 @ 0.912V) making it the 2nd most profitable algorithm after CNR for V64 (!!!).

https://ibb.co/JmrWnF3

Testing this :
6x Vega 64 rig
Clocks : ODT : 1344/1028/920mv
Results : 3.2 g/s for 6 cards => 0.53 g/s per card
Power(wall) : 1305 watts => approx 205 watts per card

No where near your 1.1 g/s @ 180 watts 
Note: when i started the miner, it say

Code:

Name:    Radeon RX Vega
    Address: 9:0
    Vendor:  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
    Memory:  8176 MByte (8171 MByte free)
    Active:  true (Selected Algorithm: Cuckatoo 31-4G)

May be need to enable 8gb solver for vega 64 ?

[HaloGenius]

anyone have the hashrate for a regular rx 5700?

I only did a short run on an under-clocked one at about 0.9 g/s ... not sure what a normal could do - it should be around 1.05 to 1.1... I will get one soon to test that.

Hello......................

Does your miner support beam hash II & equihash 192.7 for rx 5700 & rx 5700 xt ?, if so, what are the expected hash rates for both cards ?.
Thanks.

Not yet ... but will come once I get my own one. Till recently it was extremely hard to get this cards to do anything useful at all

It's true only very partially. We did Beta image  which supporting RX 5700 series with UV/OC and this card seems to be hot propect for the future. Ofc if mining not die totally  
But supporting this cards by mining software currently very awful. I would even say that support by mining software is even worse than the drivers for these cards  

[Lolliedieb]

May be need to enable 8gb solver for vega 64 ?

Thats odd... is this 0.9 or 0.9.1? Please check!
I ask because even the 0.9.1 4G solver should be much quicker.

If its 0.9: then the 8G does not load because the Binary Kernel can not be loaded --> install Adrenalin 19.10.1 or newer in Windows or 19.30 in Linux. Also upgrade to 0.9.1, pool hash is better with that one.

[GKumaran]

With current C31 code Vega 64 does 1.1 g/s at 180 W (settings: 1380 / 1000 @ 0.912V) making it the 2nd most profitable algorithm after CNR for V64 (!!!).

https://ibb.co/JmrWnF3

Testing this :
6x Vega 64 rig
Clocks : ODT : 1344/1028/920mv
Results : 3.2 g/s for 6 cards => 0.53 g/s per card
Power(wall) : 1305 watts => approx 205 watts per card

No where near your 1.1 g/s @ 180 watts  
Note: when i started the miner, it say

Code:

Name:    Radeon RX Vega
    Address: 9:0
    Vendor:  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
    Memory:  8176 MByte (8171 MByte free)
    Active:  true (Selected Algorithm: Cuckatoo 31-4G)

May be need to enable 8gb solver for vega 64 ?

May be need to enable 8gb solver for vega 64 ?

Thats odd... is this 0.9 or 0.9.1? Please check!
I ask because even the 0.9.1 4G solver should be much quicker.

If its 0.9: then the 8G does not load because the Binary Kernel can not be loaded --> install Adrenalin 19.10.1 or newer in Windows or 19.30 in Linux. Also upgrade to 0.9.1, pool hash is better with that one.

Retested :
6x Vega 64 Rig on windows 10

Results:

Code:

Driver : 18.6.1
0.9.0 -> 3.200 g/s - after fee - 3.168 @ 1305 watt => 0.528 g/s @ 206.67 watt -> 2.555 g/w
Clocks : 1344/1028/920

Driver : 19.10.1
0.9.1 -> 6.160 g/s - after fee - 6.098 @ 1205 watt => 1.016 g/s @ 190.00 watt -> 5.347 g/w
Clocks : 1305/1028/850

Reaching 1.1 on a vega 64 is possible in lolminer also  

[Lolliedieb]

Ah, now we are talking about the right range

Glad you got it working

By the way I got a telegram channel now for support: https://t.me/lolMiner

[Lolliedieb]

Hey, just wanted yyou to know that I pushed a beta version to.my testing repo - not yet fully production ready, but would appreciate some testing. Here is the link: https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-preview/releases/tag/0.9.2beta

Only changes so far is some slight improvement for C31 (while 4G solver is defect atm - will be fixed before release).

Testing results (v0.9.1 -> 0.9.2 beta)

Radeon VII (stock): 1.7 -> 1.76 (+3.5%)
Radeon VII (1400 / 1000 @ 0.825V): 1.35 -> 1.4 (+3.7%)
Vega 56 (1350 / 920 @ 0.9V): 1.0 -> 1.03 (+3%)
RX 5700 (Powercolor Red Dragon, Silent Bios): 0.78 -> 0.84 (+7.6%)

Let me know more or if there are issues with the beta. Release of official version some time next week. Want to go over more code sections

[tale01]

Hey, just wanted yyou to know that I pushed a beta version to.my testing repo - not yet fully production ready, but would appreciate some testing. Here is the link: https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-preview/releases/tag/0.9.2beta

Only changes so far is some slight improvement for C31 (while 4G solver is defect atm - will be fixed before release).

Testing results (v0.9.1 -> 0.9.2 beta)

Radeon VII (stock): 1.7 -> 1.76 (+3.5%)
Radeon VII (1400 / 1000 @ 0.825V): 1.35 -> 1.4 (+3.7%)
Vega 56 (1350 / 920 @ 0.9V): 1.0 -> 1.03 (+3%)
RX 5700 (Powercolor Red Dragon, Silent Bios): 0.78 -> 0.84 (+7.6%)

Let me know more or if there are issues with the beta. Release of official version some time next week. Want to go over more code sections

Nice Works, I'm wait improve 4G 

[Lolliedieb]

That will be tough ^^ A bit better is possible, but not as much as the 8G Navis just did
Anyways, planing 0.9.2 next werk - some more tweeks to be tested before

[joeykolb]

 Starts mining, and blue screen (atikmpagsys), then after restart, two of my cards dont even start, and not showing either in devmgr
what could be? pwr supply?

[Lolliedieb]

Thats hard to debug from the distance. What exact cards are these and which settings do this cards have? Also what are you trying to mine with lolMiner (all the algos here are a bit different) and what lolMiner version and which driver you use. We need a bit more info here to help
 Most likely the undervolt is too low for the needed compute power... but thats only a very vague guess

[joeykolb]

its not the miner, every miner does, claymore, lolminer , phoenix miner, it is the mb? i think a fucked up some straps, and from then its only problems

[0xcosmos]

its not the miner, every miner does, claymore, lolminer , phoenix miner, it is the mb? i think a fucked up some straps, and from then its only problems

if you do have a original backup of the bios
i will recommend flashing them and see if the problem persists
it seems like a card instability issue
also did you run pixel patcher to patch amd drivers?