Most Energy Efficient Coins?

[soulsby29]

With the price of Bitcoin and having to pay quite high electricity costs being based in the UK, I started to look at coins that had algorithms that used less electricity and found the below.

HiroCoin - X11
GroestlCoin - Groestl
Darkcoin - X11
Quark - Quark
Heavy - Heavy
Myraid - Myraid Groestl

I have specifically been mining GroestlCoin over the last few days. I get about 22 Mh/s at 600 watts with 2 7970 and 3 7950 cards. This has worked out to be a lot more profitable than the multipools and many other coins.

Are the any other coins that are much more energy efficient?

[Equate]

qubitcoin is also power efficient

[STT]

Blackcoin requires just proof of stake so that must be the most efficent as the wallet is not using large amounts of cpu or gpu just bandwidth.

New coins are only added in proportion to those that already hold/use the currency so I guess thats either fair or not.   Ive often wondered if all the fuss and bother of mining is really important to a coin's success, Quark mostly finished with new coins but still requires mining as will Bitcoin at some point so is that worse or better, asic covers it for BTC but not QRK

[fattypig]

GroestlCoin would be the most energy effiency algo, then x11

[nikoluki]

With my r9 280x + hd 7970 I consume less power from the wall with X11 then in Groestl.

Groestl consumes an average of ~415 Watts from the wall giving 15.12Mh/s
while x11 cunsumes an average of ~370 Watts, giving 4.8Mh/s

(with optimal miner parameters for the cards and athalon II X2 270 cpu+4GB memory)
(all measured with a power consumption device plugged into the wall power socket.)

So the conclusion is X11 is more power efficient than Groestl!

[SpeedDemon13]

Anyone do a test for Scrypt-OG? It boasts that it is 8x less memory intensive than Scrypt. Wonder how that fairs to Groestl, X11, and others.

[nikoluki]

Anyone do a test for Scrypt-OG? It boasts that it is 8x less memory intensive than Scrypt. Wonder how that fairs to Groestl, X11, and others.

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With my r9 280x + hd 7970 I consume less power from the wall with X11 then in Groestl.

Groestl consumes an average of ~415 Watts from the wall giving 15.12Mh/s
while x11 cunsumes an average of ~370 Watts, giving 4.8Mh/s

(with optimal miner parameters for the cards and athalon II X2 270 cpu+4GB memory)
(all measured with a power consumption device plugged into the wall power socket.)

So the conclusion is X11 is more power efficient than Groestl!

just did the test for scrypt-og aka nfactor 6,
with same hardware as before, I get 8.04Mh/s and consume an average of ~448W

so X11 is most efficient.

[usahero]

Probably just least optimized, not most energy efficient.

[rembrandtt]

I'm curious about total profitability of X11 vs various scrypt that covers electricity cost.  Maybe coinwarz or whatmine will add X11 to their table soon.

[decivox]

With my r9 280x + hd 7970 I consume less power from the wall with X11 then in Groestl.

Groestl consumes an average of ~415 Watts from the wall giving 15.12Mh/s
while x11 cunsumes an average of ~370 Watts, giving 4.8Mh/s

(with optimal miner parameters for the cards and athalon II X2 270 cpu+4GB memory)
(all measured with a power consumption device plugged into the wall power socket.)

So the conclusion is X11 is more power efficient than Groestl!

This guy says differently:

Someone on the french forum about mining i come from run some tests with a simple rig setup, with 2 x R9 280X

All tests ran with the same frequency etc..
Each algo can be optimized, but for comparison, it's good.

Power at the wall:

Idle
80-90w
 
scrypt
550W - 2 x 720khs
 
Scrypt-N
537W - 2 x 350khs
 
Scrypt-jane  
485W- 2 x 133khs
 
Groestl
271W - 2 x 7 025khs
 
Myr-G
295W - 2 x 9 920khs
 
skein
440 W - 2 x 212 500khs
 
Keccak
430W - 2 x 316 000khs
 
X11
285W - 2 x 2 080khs

Result : Groestl is the most gpu friendly algo, for power, temp and noise, even better than X11


a little tuning on one of mine:
4 R9 280x + 1 x 7950.
3 R9 are overclocked at 1250MHz, the 4th at 1150MHz - 1.2v
The 7950 runs at 1100MHz - 1.15v
Memory for all 4 run at 1000MHz
Look at the temp (scrypt : between 75 to 83°C)

sgminer 4.1.0 - Started: [2014-04-04 20:27:39]
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(5s):38.01M (avg):37.30Mh/s | A:2108  R:0  HW:0  WU:136.074/m
ST: 1  SS: 40  NB: 18  LW: 1538  GF: 0  RF: 0
Connected to Pool 0 (stratum) diff 0.000 as user azhago.2
Block: 244150fe...  Diff:101  Started: [20:44:59]  Best share: 4.35K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [Settings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
GPU 0:  45.0C 3366RPM | 8.036M/8.035Mh/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:29.886/m I:24
 GPU 1:  45.0C 3258RPM | 8.036M/8.035Mh/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:28.166/m I:24
 GPU 2:  48.0C 3337RPM | 8.036M/8.035Mh/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:33.747/m I:24
 GPU 3:  48.0C 3233RPM | 7.392M/7.378Mh/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:20.878/m I:19
 GPU 4:  38.0C 5277RPM | 5.845M/5.835Mh/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:23.396/m I:20
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[20:45:30] Accepted 0958aa9c Diff 27/0.000 GPU 4 at Pool 0
[20:45:38] Accepted 0eb6b909 Diff 17/0.000 GPU 2 at Pool 0
[20:45:39] Accepted 1dbce2e6 Diff 0.000/0.000 GPU 0 at Pool 0
[20:45:41] Accepted 181052de Diff 10/0.000 GPU 2 at Pool 0
[20:45:45] Accepted 05700585 Diff 47/0.000 GPU 0 at Pool 0
[20:45:49] Accepted 131f1947 Diff 13/0.000 GPU 1 at Pool 0
[20:45:50] Accepted 06b61d40 Diff 38/0.000 GPU 4 at Pool 0
[20:45:54] Accepted 307ecd9e Diff 1.35K/0.000 GPU 4 at Pool 0
[20:46:02] Accepted 10c2d09e Diff 15/0.000 GPU 0 at Pool 0
[20:46:04] Accepted 126ecee9 Diff 13/0.000 GPU 0 at Pool 0

[rembrandtt]

I'm curious about total profitability of X11 vs various scrypt that covers electricity cost.  Maybe coinwarz or whatmine will add X11 to their table soon.

Just saw that WhatMine has x11 already in place.  Good to know.

[hashfun]

I'm curious about total profitability of X11 vs various scrypt that covers electricity cost.  Maybe coinwarz or whatmine will add X11 to their table soon.

Just saw that WhatMine has x11 already in place.  Good to know.

How many coins u gen with  /Mhs

[hashfun]

Code:

My test  7970  @  1125 / 1375

sgminer 4.1.0 - Started: [2014-04-12 16:17:45]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):5.048M (avg):5.052Mh/s | A:48  R:0  HW:0  WU:20.610/m
ST: 2  SS: 0  NB: 4  LW: 138  GF: 0  RF: 0
Connected to Pool 0 (stratum) diff 16 as user 
Block: c6dbaeb1...  Diff:293  Started: [16:18:46]  Best share: 109
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[P]ool management [G]PU management [S]ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 GPU 0:  65.0C 4075RPM | 5.047M/5.132Mh/s | R:  0.0% HW:0 WU:21.089/m I:13
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[16:17:42] Started sgminer 4.1.0
[16:17:43] Kernel groestlcoin is experimental.
[16:17:43] Probing for an alive pool
[16:17:43] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 16
[16:17:45] Network diff set to 216
[16:17:59] Network diff set to 226
[16:17:59] Stratum from Pool 0 detected new block
[16:18:20] Network diff set to 235
[16:18:20] Stratum from Pool 0 detected new block
[16:18:46] Network diff set to 293
[16:18:46] Stratum from Pool 0 detected new block
[16:19:02] Accepted 02562695 Diff 109/16 GPU 0
[16:19:05] Accepted 09075143 Diff 28/16 GPU 0
[16:19:40] Accepted 0dea13db Diff 18/16 GPU 0


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GPU Activity Not more then  89% and Temprature 65C.

[rembrandtt]

I'm curious about total profitability of X11 vs various scrypt that covers electricity cost.  Maybe coinwarz or whatmine will add X11 to their table soon.

Just saw that WhatMine has x11 already in place.  Good to know.

How many coins u gen with  /Mhs

That info too is provided.

[SpeedDemon13]

Anyone do a test for Scrypt-OG? It boasts that it is 8x less memory intensive than Scrypt. Wonder how that fairs to Groestl, X11, and others.

Code:

With my r9 280x + hd 7970 I consume less power from the wall with X11 then in Groestl.

Groestl consumes an average of ~415 Watts from the wall giving 15.12Mh/s
while x11 cunsumes an average of ~370 Watts, giving 4.8Mh/s

(with optimal miner parameters for the cards and athalon II X2 270 cpu+4GB memory)
(all measured with a power consumption device plugged into the wall power socket.)

So the conclusion is X11 is more power efficient than Groestl!

just did the test for scrypt-og aka nfactor 6,
with same hardware as before, I get 8.04Mh/s and consume an average of ~448W

so X11 is most efficient.

Cool. Still better than Scrypt, Scrypt-N and Script Jane. About Keccak and Skein energy consumption.

[ibinsad]

What about heavycoin with HEFTY1?
I use 2 290 and one 280x, total watt 460 @66Mh/s

[salsacz]

Nxt is 1200 times as energy efficient as Bitcoin, and 350 times as cost efficient with higher security:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J8uhdshu9epGRrQHBaloGc4itdvuAHZDAUtNDjOhz-8/edit

[rony_90]

i am geting 2.1Mh/s @960w with scrypt mining using 3 280x..how much will i het in x11 and groestl..? Does hasrate varies using these algos..?

[aasl]

metiscoin is said to be power efficient. but the exchange rate is very low.

[Amph]

they are just less optimized, not really more efficient, but the heavycoin algo is different it is really more efficient, someone in the official thread explained why