[XMR] sgminer-MK - actually one of the best open source Monero miner.

[MadKernel]

Hi to all,
I'm here to present my work on Monero.
It's an optimized AMD Monero miner, derived from the sgminer project.
The source code and the executable for Windows are available on Github.

https://github.com/Enoch72/sgminer-MK/releases

Tested on AMD R9 390x (stock values) the miner seems to give the best hashrate compared to other best miners.
Claymore Cryptonote performs about 855 hashes/s, SRBminer performs 874 hashes per secs, while MK is constantly above 880 hashes/sec with peaks to 890.
I haven't tested the miner on newer cards simply because at the moment I decided to don't buy ones.

The miner is free to download for test purposes.
NO dev fee in the miner but ... Open source software doesn't means software for free.
GPL license allow to charge a price or a fee for download the software.
If you want to use the miner in production environment you shall to pay a developer fee of 0.005 XMR for GPU.
Obviously this contribute the project alive. For other details please read the LICENSE.TXT file in the distribution file.

The planned road-map for next release/s are:

• Other speed optimizations for Monero (1/2%)
• Implement and transfer optimizations to CNHeavy algo
• GUI and tools to best configure, monitor and fine tuning the mining algos
• Under request, is possible transfer the optimizations to other Open Source projects (ex: XMR rig). The speedup gain is estimated between 3 and 5%.

Please support the development sending donations and/or fee payments [XMR] to this address:

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NOTE: for best configure you cards please read the manual included the zip file.
For sure you have to change the rawintensity and worksize values in the batch file.

Giovanni

[Rastanan]

Does it use more power than the other miners?

[MadKernel]

Does it use more power than the other miners?

I haven't compared the power utilization of the miner.
Reasonably the consume is a little bit more, proportionally to the hash gain.
I will do and publish the power tests for my R9 card. For other models we will wait for a proud tester.

[anhthinhzz]

With your configuration, can you tell me how many days you have a hash of how many xmr?

[MadKernel]

With your configuration, can you tell me how many days you have a hash of how many xmr?

I have tested the miner on miningpoolhub one month ago for six hours. The pool hashrate was in line with the value displayed on the gui of the miner.

[MadKernel]

With your configuration, can you tell me how many days you have a hash of how many xmr?

I have tested the miner on miningpoolhub one month ago for six hours. The pool hashrate was in line with the value displayed on the gui of the miner.

Graph of about 20 hours of mining.
https://imgur.com/8XRJwL5

Mining is yet active for about 12 hours after this post at:
https://www.supportxmr.com
miner :

Code:

49tTCX9JUzejoBjTseyeCRPHqp13Nw7ze5dN6ru2C6BwZWuzvJZ25Cn8E4VEkn44jz8dXwMmo3okT8BWg4gQmJae6ERwXde

EDIT: reinserted the miner id

https://i.imgur.com/xnPDhjW.png

End of the test:

https://i.imgur.com/xnPDhjW.png

Running time: about 32 hours

Avg Hashrate displayed by the miner  : 887
24 Hrs Hashrate diplayed by the pool  : 892
Testing environment : Bad.
Connection instable (no optic fiber , no cable , wi max, shared with the family members)
PC: instable. Sometimes freezes if browser is used. During the test the PC is freezed 2 times. One while posting the intermediate results.

2#EDIT: result of the 24 hrs test

[Pennywis3]

I love your project, i used SGminer a lot back in the days and it was awesome.
Unfortunately i can't get decent speeds out of 570/580 on this one, don't know why.

Do you have any RX series cards to test? The R9 series are not really an option these days because of high consumption/profit ratio i guess.

[MadKernel]

I love your project, i used SGminer a lot back in the days and it was awesome.
Unfortunately i can't get decent speeds out of 570/580 on this one, don't know why.

Do you have any RX series cards to test? The R9 series are not really an option these days because of high consumption/profit ratio i guess.

Hi Pennywis3 ,
thank very much for your feedback.
The main parameter that influence the performance is the rawintensity and the worksize.
You yet know very well the miner, so I think is useless show you many options or configurations to try...anyway there are written in the pdf manual.
The point is that I have to decide how many time and eventually money to invest in this project.
For sure I have to buy a newer card and eventually a new pc.
We will see if there are news.

Giovanni

Ps: Hey, Hacker. Please do not try to enter in  my miningpoolhub account : it's pratically empty and a waste of time!  

[Ladydoge]

Do you have plans on adding other algos? For example hsr. There's an sgminer for it (https://github.com/Partiolainen/sgminer-gm/releases). I can't run it tho 

[darkneorus]

Do you have plans on adding other algos? For example hsr. There's an sgminer for it (https://github.com/Partiolainen/sgminer-gm/releases). I can't run it tho 

just FYI - you can't mine Hshare anymore, hsr algo is dead for quite some time

[Sara93]

CRYPTONIGHT V8?