[ANN] sgminer v5 - optimized X11/X13/NeoScrypt/Lyra2RE/etc. kernel-switch miner

[Oscilson]

What are people getting with 280x's and Lyra? Wondering if I should try again for vert since the last time the miner never worked after hours of trying to figure it out.

I am not actively mining this but with xI=128, 1000/1500, g 2, w 256, tc 8192 I get 845 Kh/s and very low temps.  Probably could be better if I had a reason to tweak the settings.

Try 710/1500, you might get higher if you have hynex memory.

Yeah, all mine are Hynix.  I could successfully lower the clocks to 710 and still get about 826.  I'm using the 12/05/14 build, sgminer-v5-Lyra2RE-RC1-WIN32.

Try catalyst 14.6 or 14.7

[JuanHungLo]

it is Catalyst 14.6

[djm34]

it is Catalyst 14.6

try the latest version...

[Oscilson]

it is Catalyst 14.6

Mine is 7970 or 7990, so there might be some difference between them and your 280x. You can try w= 64. I also use 14.7. But it should be similar to 14.6.

[splat44]

Warning!
AMD has a new driver with Omega (14.12) revision number for window 64 bit. I am unsure about other system, please do not download/install as all sgminers listed through thread crashes my GPU

Until developers test new built with latest amd drivers, it best not download install omega driver for the time being!

[gabrielknight]

(it should work with metallicjames is you use in lyra2RE.cl the blake256 code of metallicjames version.

Um i don't get it, if i want to use the metallicjames version with your kernel, which kernel files do i need to replace exactly?
Cause if i'm not mistaken, simply replacing all metallicjames' lyra2re related kernel files with your kernel files won't work..
thanks.

no it won't work directly, the first kernel has been rewritten.

You need to replace the first kernel in the new lyra2RE.cl which is starting with "search(" actually lines 152 to 225) by the old one. Then it should work.

Didn't work, replaced the codes mentioned with the old one, produce the same error as before being replaced:
Error: clSetKernelArg of all params failed.
GPU 0 failure, disabling!

[Pansyfaust]

(it should work with metallicjames is you use in lyra2RE.cl the blake256 code of metallicjames version.

Um i don't get it, if i want to use the metallicjames version with your kernel, which kernel files do i need to replace exactly?
Cause if i'm not mistaken, simply replacing all metallicjames' lyra2re related kernel files with your kernel files won't work..
thanks.

no it won't work directly, the first kernel has been rewritten.

You need to replace the first kernel in the new lyra2RE.cl which is starting with "search(" actually lines 152 to 225) by the old one. Then it should work.

Didn't work, replaced the codes mentioned with the old one, produce the same error as before being replaced:
Error: clSetKernelArg of all params failed.
GPU 0 failure, disabling!

try gpu-platform -1 in config or bat

[DStefanov]

(it should work with metallicjames is you use in lyra2RE.cl the blake256 code of metallicjames version.

Um i don't get it, if i want to use the metallicjames version with your kernel, which kernel files do i need to replace exactly?
Cause if i'm not mistaken, simply replacing all metallicjames' lyra2re related kernel files with your kernel files won't work..
thanks.

no it won't work directly, the first kernel has been rewritten.

You need to replace the first kernel in the new lyra2RE.cl which is starting with "search(" actually lines 152 to 225) by the old one. Then it should work.

Didn't work, replaced the codes mentioned with the old one, produce the same error as before being replaced:
Error: clSetKernelArg of all params failed.
GPU 0 failure, disabling!

try gpu-platform -1 in config or bat

Proper recording is not this: --gpu-platform 1
Could you give a more detailed explanation of what exactly makes this line, what it means.
Thank you.

[splat44]

I'm wondering about "-g" settings, does this have something to do the number of cpu cores and not from GPU?

I made a comparison between using sgminer-5.1 and CPU miner for QRK to find CPU is more effective!
sgminer
share (a): 594
share (r): 4
20 hour

CPU Mining
share (a) 711
share (r) 4
20 hour

So what's with that?
Using GPU should should produce more but isn't on my case!
I seems to suspect it has something to do with setting you've provided!
Again, I am using AMD 7 240 series!
Windows 7 64bit but none binaries are available for win64bit!

If number of thread is based on my GPU then how can I know which thread number to use as there not information leading?

I have to be clear here, I don't know which setting to use yet

I tried using just the program as command prompt and I get the following warnings:
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT is not specified
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS is not specified

Once I know those settings that overide those above then it might be easier
Is there way to show listing of option using program?

I do understand it possible mining quarkcoin using this but I am unsure the best setting for Diamond AMD Radeon R7 200 series.
I have latest catalyst and tried using without specifying amount of video ram following stream using sph-sgminer:
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT

Too many rejected shares and I am doing better mining on a CPU which I am earning 50 QRK in two week than on gpu.

Since windows binaries is availasble and so I can test it, proper settings would be great.
Any feedback?

dont know what settings your using but i found it works best with 2 threads and intensity no higher than 14
also i never get any HW errors and the only rejects are stale shares

This might help in your .bat file

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

that won't help his rejects/HW errors though
i assume he doesn't know how to set up sgminer at all
try this (from OP, with minor modification)

Code:

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
sgminer --algorithm quarkcoin --no-extranonce -I 14 -g 2 -w 64 -o stratum+tcp://some-quark-pool:3333 -u ... -p ...

[djm34]

I'm wondering about "-g" settings, does this have something to do the number of cpu cores and not from GPU?

no "-g" is the number of gpu stream

[splat44]

Ok then can I know the amount of stream my GPU has?
I mean for radeon R7 200 or 240 series!

I'm wondering about "-g" settings, does this have something to do the number of cpu cores and not from GPU?

no "-g" is the number of gpu stream

[MaxDZ8]

I made a comparison between using sgminer-5.1 and CPU miner for QRK to find CPU is more effective! ... Again, I am using AMD 7 240 series!

Compared to what CPU?
240 is a fairly minimal card and the QRK kernel isn't very friendly AFAIK, it might happen.

Ok then can I know the amount of stream my GPU has?
I mean for radeon R7 200 or 240 series!

He's not intending "streams" in the sense of "stream processors" he means "streams" in the sense of "command streams". Most of the time, just use -g 2.

[Pansyfaust]

(it should work with metallicjames is you use in lyra2RE.cl the blake256 code of metallicjames version.

Um i don't get it, if i want to use the metallicjames version with your kernel, which kernel files do i need to replace exactly?
Cause if i'm not mistaken, simply replacing all metallicjames' lyra2re related kernel files with your kernel files won't work..
thanks.

no it won't work directly, the first kernel has been rewritten.

You need to replace the first kernel in the new lyra2RE.cl which is starting with "search(" actually lines 152 to 225) by the old one. Then it should work.

Didn't work, replaced the codes mentioned with the old one, produce the same error as before being replaced:
Error: clSetKernelArg of all params failed.
GPU 0 failure, disabling!

try gpu-platform -1 in config or bat

Proper recording is not this: --gpu-platform 1
Could you give a more detailed explanation of what exactly makes this line, what it means.
Thank you.

Correct, I was merely pointing them in the direction I thought would solve their problem.
As far as I know, this argument selects the platform on which the cards are/is located, so on-board GPU might be GPU platform 0 for example, while your discreet card is GPU platform 1, so when you start the miner the default is "0", which means it's pointing towards your on-board.

[go6ooo1212]

I've  lost in the thread. Would you help me with the reached speed of neoscrypt with 280X ?

[splat44]

In term of CPU, I talking intel which has 2 core and isn't i3!

If I have to use -g 2 using sgminer and while earning more on CPU then I might as well forget using sgminer!

I made a comparison between using sgminer-5.1 and CPU miner for QRK to find CPU is more effective! ... Again, I am using AMD 7 240 series!

Compared to what CPU?
240 is a fairly minimal card and the QRK kernel isn't very friendly AFAIK, it might happen.

Ok then can I know the amount of stream my GPU has?
I mean for radeon R7 200 or 240 series!

He's not intending "streams" in the sense of "stream processors" he means "streams" in the sense of "command streams". Most of the time, just use -g 2.

[djm34]

In term of CPU, I talking intel which has 2 core and isn't i3!

If I have to use -g 2 using sgminer and while earning more on CPU then I might as well forget using sgminer!

?

[adaseb]

I have the same card the R7 series is a horrible card to mine with. For some reason it can't go headless or your memoryclock will keep switchin down

[cat77]

I've moved into Neoscrypt with 280X cards, 14.6 Catalyst and Driver, and the recent Nicehash neoscrypt kernel.
I have my 280X's running 1000gpuclock / 1500memclock and 340KH/s   

However, I see that 400KH/s or better is doable, so hack at the kernel I must.         

I have already found some weird things with the compiler, such as crashing on perfectly good code,
and there are places where adding meaningless instructions actually makes it faster, so I assume there
is some fitment of code into a core size which I need to get a feel for.

Would anyone care to be so nice as to point me to a particular section of the kernel where I should
focus my attention, or at least a push in the right direction?  Several unrolls and coding functions inline
have resulted in just a few KH/s

I will start it off.....adding a temp variable to neoscrypt_blkmix makes it go 15KH/s faster. 

[bitspender]

Got Sapphire R9 290 Tri-x, amd 14.12 and only getting top 106Kh/s 

Anybody has good settings?

[splat44]

Hey Wolf0,

Sorry to bud in like this but I just came through the following, seems saying the sgminer support GPU/script and for AMD GPU only?
There also Win64 Build and apparently that build seem leading to you I assumed!

https://litecoin.info/Mining_software

Can you provided setting for litecoin GPU mining with scrypt support?
I did trying viewing options but cannot locate option leading to scrypt support!

While mining QRK since other members suggested using -i 14 and -g 2, I assume its the same for litecoins?

It would help by seeing the code leading to actual setting so I can test it as none GPU miner support script!
yes, I am using one GPU CARD!

Thank for your support

7970 just 38khs on Neoscrypt   first time, whats the setting for NEO and which is the best miner?

For 7970, look up the 280x settings.

Tried that but no luck. i am using wolf miner "wolf-neo-sgminer5-hawaii-11212014"

Don't use that one - use Nicehash's build. Hawaii chips are 290/290X.

sgminer uses ckolivas.cl instead of neo when i use that version.
bat file is something like this and neoscrypt.cl is in the same folder.

Code:

sgminer --algorithm neoscrypt -o stratum+tcp://stratum.ftc.theblocksfactory.com:3333 -u x.1 -p x

You need the develop version of SG 5.