is random x power hungry?

[ozaudio]

now monero has gone to random x, how is power usage affected. a while back CN V7 was really good on power usage. i was simply going to use my plug in power meter but cant find it. im trying to working out my limits with overclocking and my psu output, but seeing as i have no idea how power hungry random x is or isn't i dont want to push anything yet.

[VasilyS]

randomX is algo for CPUs. It is power efficient algoritm profitable enough at the moment on modern CPUs. You may check hashrates of different Intel CPUs here: https://www.cryptoprofi.info/?p=4114. If I compare power consumption while mining XMR with mining on different yespower, yescrypt algo, CPUchain and so on, I see that RandomX is much better and economical at the moment.

[ozaudio]

yes i know its a cpu algo, im not bothered about weather cost vs power usage is worth it, im trying to find out if my psu is going to be running its cock of flat out. stock i get 10000 h/s using hugepages and turion power control ps max 1 on ubuntu ( all cores boosted to 2.2mhx ). currently at 2.9 MHz with 1.1650vcore its upto 11886 h/s

[Metroid]

now monero has gone to random x, how is power usage affected. a while back CN V7 was really good on power usage. i was simply going to use my plug in power meter but cant find it. im trying to working out my limits with overclocking and my psu output, but seeing as i have no idea how power hungry random x is or isn't i dont want to push anything yet.

it's not power hungry, it's actually the opposite, it gives a lot more hash per kwh and ryzen 3xxx cpus are very efficient for that.

[Phylantrop]

really not power hungry, especially when using current procs. but even with older gen procs, the relative bang for the buck in terms of efficiency is pretty good.

[joblo]

yes i know its a cpu algo, im not bothered about weather cost vs power usage is worth it, im trying to find out if my psu is going to be running its cock of flat out. stock i get 10000 h/s using hugepages and turion power control ps max 1 on ubuntu ( all cores boosted to 2.2mhx ). currently at 2.9 MHz with 1.1650vcore its upto 11886 h/s

It's not algo the that matters it's the CPU. Your PSU has to supply the max power your CPU could draw
with the most power hungry application. Check your CPU specs and add for OC.

Unless you built the PC yourself and went cheap on the PSU or you've added GPUs, running the CPU
hard, even with OC, should not be a problem for the PSU.

Or just measure the power draw while mining.

[ozaudio]

yes i know its a cpu algo, im not bothered about weather cost vs power usage is worth it, im trying to find out if my psu is going to be running its cock of flat out. stock i get 10000 h/s using hugepages and turion power control ps max 1 on ubuntu ( all cores boosted to 2.2mhx ). currently at 2.9 MHz with 1.1650vcore its upto 11886 h/s

It's not algo the that matters it's the CPU. Your PSU has to supply the max power your CPU could draw
with the most power hungry application. Check your CPU specs and add for OC.

Unless you built the PC yourself and went cheap on the PSU or you've added GPUs, running the CPU
hard, even with OC, should not be a problem for the PSU.

Or just measure the power draw while mining.

i cant find my plug in power meter, its an old opteron system, 4 x 16c ES chips. i think the TDP of them is 115w each stock . even overclocked they shouldn't really go past 150w each tho ? the server is watercooled so has a pump and several fans running from the board aswell using a cooler master silent pro 1000 psu.

been stable at 2.9 vcore 1.1650 for 24 hours so gone to 3.0 vcore 1.1700 and see how that gets on. doubt ill push it past 3.0 as buying a bigger psu isn't worth it, but another idea could be to just jump a spare psu and run all the fans/ hdd  and water cooling pump from that

[tevador]

RandomX uses about 20-30% more power than CryptoNightR.

[Here41Reason]

really not power hungry, especially when using current procs. but even with older gen procs, the relative bang for the buck in terms of efficiency is pretty good.

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