[BBR] Boolberry GPU Miner Discussion - AMD & Nvidia - OpenCL & CUDA

[alex119]

Using "-d 8" only selects a single GPU, starting with 0 for the first GPU. It looks like there's a hardcoded limit of 8 GPUs since it ignores the 9th one.

That is absolutely true.
I just shown that to illustrate that devices with numbers higher than 7 are ignored.

so you could change this and rebuild the miner.

Exactly. The MAX_GPU is checked in several places in source code.
I tried to binary-patch the check, but did not succeed.

Rebuilding also failed for me. I feel I could not set up the environment correctly.

I suppose in need a lot higher skill than just copy-paste from instruction.

Anyone can help?
(I wrote an email to author but had no response).

[alex119]

So, could anyone Rebuild the miner to support more GPUs at once?

I could not, even thoroughly following the instructions on GitHub...

[andrucrypt]

Does anyone have info about hashrate for GTX 750(not Ti)? Searched through whole topic, but didn't find anything.

[teknohog]

Fun times: I'm getting 1400 kh/s on a Radeon 7970 with opensource Linux drivers. Default clocks of 950/1450 MHz and I estimate the power draw at 150 W max. (For comparison, my GTX 1070 does about 1600 kh/s at 100 W). I've seen my share of miners reporting wrong numbers, but this one is verified by a pool over a full day, so it's looking legit.

This is with Linux 4.15.12, mesa 18.0.0_rc5, llvm 6.0.0 and xf86-video-ati 18.0.1. It should be noted that the newer opensource AMDGPU driver isn't available for the 7970, but the real action for OpenGL/OpenCL is happening with Mesa and LLVM, and there have been some great developments.

I've been testing the opensource driver stack for a while, as I've sold most of my Radeons and I've stopped patching the old binary driver (fglrx) for newer kernels. So far, it's been slower, around 650 kh/s vs. 875 with fglrx. This incredible leap came after the latest Mesa and LLVM updates. It's been known for a while that the opensource stack outperforms the old binaries in many applications, but this is a first for me with miners.

While great for BBR, there aren't many other miners that work at all with the OS drivers. Newer miners use OpenCL 2.0 which isn't implemented yet, and there are other issues. So I guess I'll keep this machine for BBR only for now

Also noting this is a rather slow machine with 1x PCIe bus, but it's probably irrelevant for BBR mining.

[clintar2]

Fun times: I'm getting 1400 kh/s on a Radeon 7970 with opensource Linux drivers. Default clocks of 950/1450 MHz and I estimate the power draw at 150 W max. (For comparison, my GTX 1070 does about 1600 kh/s at 100 W). I've seen my share of miners reporting wrong numbers, but this one is verified by a pool over a full day, so it's looking legit.

This is with Linux 4.15.12, mesa 18.0.0_rc5, llvm 6.0.0 and xf86-video-ati 18.0.1. It should be noted that the newer opensource AMDGPU driver isn't available for the 7970, but the real action for OpenGL/OpenCL is happening with Mesa and LLVM, and there have been some great developments.

I've been testing the opensource driver stack for a while, as I've sold most of my Radeons and I've stopped patching the old binary driver (fglrx) for newer kernels. So far, it's been slower, around 650 kh/s vs. 875 with fglrx. This incredible leap came after the latest Mesa and LLVM updates. It's been known for a while that the opensource stack outperforms the old binaries in many applications, but this is a first for me with miners.

While great for BBR, there aren't many other miners that work at all with the OS drivers. Newer miners use OpenCL 2.0 which isn't implemented yet, and there are other issues. So I guess I'll keep this machine for BBR only for now

Also noting this is a rather slow machine with 1x PCIe bus, but it's probably irrelevant for BBR mining.

Are you able to set clocks with that?

[teknohog]

Fun times: I'm getting 1400 kh/s on a Radeon 7970 with opensource Linux drivers. Default clocks of 950/1450 MHz and I estimate the power draw at 150 W max.

Are you able to set clocks with that?

Yea, but not any higher so far. The "high" profile gives the same frequencies as "default". What's worse, all non-default profiles go to "low" speeds when the monitor is off.

For details see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Power_management and in this case, dynamic power management must be disabled with the kernel option radeon.dpm=0. The dynamic setting doesn't have the monitor (DPMS) issue.

For comparison, using fglrx gives 875 kh/s at 1100/350 MHz, about the same power judging from similar temperatures.

[Newton90]

is there any way to mine boolberry solo on gpu?

[clintar2]

is there any way to mine boolberry solo on gpu?

You can get the https://github.com/mbkuperman/boolberry-opencl compiled and run using your existing blockchain if it's synced. I don't know if it will sync from scratch, though.

[thehoj]

Been mining all night at 1200Kh/s
https://i.imgur.com/eZvxNgW.png

But for some reason on mining.blue it shows that I'm mining slower than that.. Has anyone else experienced this?
https://i.imgur.com/IG2caYF.png

[andrucrypt]

GTX 1080 and only 1200kH/s? Better to mine something profitable for this card and buy boolberry ) What about hashrate - it jumps a lot, so on pool you won't see stable hashrate.

[broilsemla0]

There has to be something that one can do with the scratchpad related stuff.

[LovellaSai]

When this GPU miner is made, use the copy plus paste from sphlib, but I avoid it.

[redshiftexpensive]

I do not really feel like dealing with that scratchpad non sense otherwise would have helped.

[pubmongrelT]

The transfers on the host devices are sometimes slow then it will not be the best idea.

[ribm4]

This provides a faster hash rate which are available on the the stratum pool.

[Quan Nguyen]

Somebody help me, pls. I have a mining rig with 13 GPU Zotac 1060 6Gb. The mining software only support 8 GPU, how can I use another tools to mine with 13 GPU. TKS so much!

[Bare]

Hey guys!

I just want to report my, kinda weird, hashrates across my 3 rigs

1st rig
4x 390x ~1800kH/s per card, total ~7200 kH/s
settings -i 22
win7 x64
crimson 16.7.3 drivers

2nd rig
4x fury + 2x 390 ~1100 kH/s per card furys and 390s too
settings -i 22
win10 x64
crimson 16.3.2 drivers

3rd rig
fury x + 3x 390 same results as 2nd rig ~1100 kH's across all cards
settings -i 22
win10 x64
crimson 16.3.2

seems like i get higher hashrates per card on the first rig which has win7 but slightly newer drivers,

what hashrates do you guys get with your 390s and furys? is it the os or the driver problem?
meanwhile I'll try to find a solution and let you know...

[willycut]

Somebody help me, pls. I have a mining rig with 13 GPU Zotac 1060 6Gb. The mining software only support 8 GPU, how can I use another tools to mine with 13 GPU. TKS so much!

Same problem here...

[lebuawu2]

Somebody help me, pls. I have a mining rig with 13 GPU Zotac 1060 6Gb. The mining software only support 8 GPU, how can I use another tools to mine with 13 GPU. TKS so much!

Same problem here...

you can try -t 13 for 13 GPU.

[andrucrypt]

new miner WildRig released. Made a topic here.