NSGminer v0.9.4: The Fastest NeoScrypt GPU Miner

[herbex]

Hello. I have problem, nsgminer is not work for many pools. For example when mine VIVO. Use the same setting, but change pool name and port only.

My settings: nsgminer --neoscrypt --gpu-platform 1 -o stratum+tcp://<pool:port> -u <wallet> -p c=VIVO -I 16 -g 1

When i use s.antminepool.com:4233 miner works good.
If i use eu1.altminer.net:4233 then miner not loading. Miner    always show empty CMD window.
What could be the problem?

You use wrong port for altminer . should be 10001

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[ghostlander]

New NeoScrypt CUDAminer v1.0.0 has been released. The links are in the OP.

It supports all NVIDIA GPUs with compute capability 5.0 and higher, i.e of the Maxwell and Pascal architectures. Should work on Volta, too, with manual settings. I've changed the name back to CUDAminer because both Christians who have managed the CCminer project back in 2014 are no longer in business, so the old name is rather confusing.

Both Stratum and GetWork should work fine. No GetBlockTemplate.

There is a single CUDA kernel written in PTX asm for the most part. CUDA 6.5 seems to do the best, CUDA 7.5 is slightly slower, CUDA 8.0 is considerably slower. Although there are 3 hashing modes which fit different GPUs:

-m 1 is for the Maxwell architecture. Derived from NSGminer. Does very well on 750 Ti like 270KH/s @ 1400MHz core / 3200MHz memory;

-m 2 is for the Pascal architecture with GDDR5, i.e. 1060 and 1070. Over 1.1MH/s on a reference 1070 with no overclocking;

-m 3 is for the Pascal architecture with GDDR5X, i.e. 1080. From TPruvot's miner. Needs more work though. 1080 is almost as fast as 1070 with it.

The miner is open source, no dev fees or anything, though your donations are welcome.

[encryptblockr]

NeoScrypt

http://phoenixcoin.org/archive/neoscrypt_ad.png

VIRUS detected
clean up your code base

[ghostlander]

VIRUS detected
clean up your code base

Ignorance detected.
Educate yourself.

[k0stas]

New NeoScrypt CUDAminer v1.0.0 has been released. The links are in the OP.

It supports all NVIDIA GPUs with compute capability 5.0 and higher, i.e of the Maxwell and Pascal architectures. Should work on Volta, too, with manual settings. I've changed the name back to CUDAminer because both Christians who have managed the CCminer project back in 2014 are no longer in business, so the old name is rather confusing.

Both Stratum and GetWork should work fine. No GetBlockTemplate.

There is a single CUDA kernel written in PTX asm for the most part. CUDA 6.5 seems to do the best, CUDA 7.5 is slightly slower, CUDA 8.0 is considerably slower. Although there are 3 hashing modes which fit different GPUs:

--mode 1 is for the Maxwell architecture. Derived from NSGminer. Does very well on 750 Ti like 270KH/s @ 1400MHz core / 3200MHz memory;

--mode 2 is for the Pascal architecture with GDDR5, i.e. 1060 and 1070. Over 1.1MH/s on a reference 1070 with no overclocking;

--mode 3 is for the Pascal architecture with GDDR5X, i.e. 1080. From TPruvot's miner. Needs more work though. 1080 is almost as fast as 1070 with it.

The miner is open source, no dev fees or anything, though your donations are welcome.

Tested with all cuda versions on 1060 3GB with power limit to 80W, core clock 1596MHz, and memory clock 4480MHz i use this settings for 1,5 years without any problem

cuda 6.5 was the faster
cuda 7.5  3% slower
cuda 8.0 20% slower
cuda 9.0 20% slower

edit : From my own tests till now only ccminer of KlausT is working well with cuda 9 and give the same speed like cuda 7.5

[melpheos]

Crashes on 1070ti when using --mode 2

[ghostlander]

Crashes on 1070ti when using --mode 2

Maybe reduce the intensity. Does it work in other modes?

[melpheos]

Crashes on 1070ti when using --mode 2

Maybe reduce the intensity. Does it work in other modes?

Haven't tested yet but it crashed without even setting any intensity.
I will when i'm back from work

[k0stas]

Crashes on 1070ti when using --mode 2

Maybe reduce the intensity. Does it work in other modes?

Haven't tested yet but it crashed without even setting any intensity.
I will when i'm back from work

Use only the -m 2 is working
for some reason --mode 2  crashing

but better start the miner without the --mode option

[ghostlander]

Crashes on 1070ti when using --mode 2

Maybe reduce the intensity. Does it work in other modes?

Haven't tested yet but it crashed without even setting any intensity.
I will when i'm back from work

Use only the -m 2 is working
for some reason --mode 2  crashing

but better start the miner without the --mode option

I've fixed this odd bug. Use -m 2 or stay with the defaults for now if you use the uploaded Windows binaries.

[Vlizzjeffrey]

i get 1.4 mh/s on my 1080ti on 60% power limit.
Only every time i close the miner  my nvidia drivers crash, not that big of a problem but thought i'd mention it.

[k0stas]

I increased power limit to 110W without to change anything else and the speed went from 720KH/s to 780KH/s but i think isn't worth for long term, 30W more for only 60KH/s.

[ghostlander]

I increased power limit to 110W without to change anything else and the speed went from 720KH/s to 780KH/s but i think isn't worth for long term, 30W more for only 60KH/s.

If I reduce TDP of my watercooled GTX 1080 from 250W to 150W, the core clock speeds go down from ~2000MHz to ~1670MHz. The hash rate falls only by 70KH/s to 1.0MH/s due to the GDDR5X bottleneck. The lowest possible power limit is 125W which results in 0.9MH/s.

[hankt]

How would I launch for just GPU 7, an AMD card?

[aciddude]

VIRUS detected
clean up your code base

Ignorance detected.
Educate yourself.

@Encryptblockr

What Ghostlander means by that is some Anti-viruses will flag miner software as a virus.  This is because a lot of bad actors try to hide miners inside malware etc....ages ago even Bitcoin-qt was flagged by anti-virus software until they removed the inbuilt CPU miner.

So basically it is a false positive - the code is 100% open source so you can read it yourself - If you read and understand code you'll see there's no virus hidden in there.....that's the beauty of opensource.



Please consider yourself (partially) educated..... Telling someone to "clean up their code base"  without even understanding what's going on just shows ignorance on your part.

[giveen1]

Pretty impressed with CUDAminer v1.0.0 with my 1060's

Nearly same performance as the HSRMiner-JustAMiner Fork, but dropped my temps by 4-6C.

[hankt]

How would I launch for just GPU 7, an AMD card?

Oddly, when launched nsgminer only employs my Nvidia cards?

I want to use nsgminer strictly on the Amd cards. Can anyone assist me with configuration switches for that?

[Hoang152]

Pretty impressed with CUDAminer v1.0.0 with my 1060's

Nearly same performance as the HSRMiner-JustAMiner Fork, but dropped my temps by 4-6C.

Could you share me your command in .bat file? Thanks a lot!

[k0stas]

How would I launch for just GPU 7, an AMD card?

Oddly, when launched nsgminer only employs my Nvidia cards?

I want to use nsgminer strictly on the Amd cards. Can anyone assist me with configuration switches for that?

If you run a mixing rig with nvidia and amd cards on the same mobo run the command

Code:

./nsgminer -n

this command will tell you which cards are on your system

make two different confing files with the names

amd.conf
nvidia.conf

and specific your GPU cards with --device parameter to each config file
and then run nsgminer two times

Code:

./nsgminer -c amd.conf

for the amd cards

Code:

./nsgminer -c nvidia.conf

for the nvidia cards

[ghostlander]

How would I launch for just GPU 7, an AMD card?

Oddly, when launched nsgminer only employs my Nvidia cards?

I want to use nsgminer strictly on the Amd cards. Can anyone assist me with configuration switches for that?

If you have both AMD and NVIDIA cards installed, and haven't specified --gpu-platform, the miner selects platform 0 which could be either. The miner used to expect platform 0 to be AMD and platform 1 to be NVIDIA, but platform ordering could be confused sometimes. Also expect some hardware monitoring mismatches and warnings as the AMD ADL code is somewhat old.

Code:

[2018-02-08 11:27:34] OpenCL platform 0 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation                    
[11:27:34] OpenCL platform 0 name: NVIDIA CUDA                    
[11:27:34] OpenCL platform 0 version: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 8.0.5                    
[11:27:34] Platform 0 devices: 2                    
[11:27:34] 	0	GeForce GTX 750 Ti                    
[11:27:34] 	1	GeForce GTX 750 Ti
                    
[11:27:34] OpenCL platform 1 vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.                    
[11:27:34] OpenCL platform 1 name: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing                    
[11:27:34] OpenCL platform 1 version: OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (938.2)                    
[11:27:34] Platform 1 devices: 1                    
[11:27:34] 	0	Juniper
                    
[11:27:34] 3 OpenCL GPU devices detected
                    
[11:27:34] Adapter returns ID 0 meaning not AMD. Card order might be confused                    
[11:27:34] Adapter returns ID 0 meaning not AMD. Card order might be confused                    
[11:27:34] ADL found more devices than opencl!                    
[11:27:34] There is possibly at least one GPU that doesn't support OpenCL                    
[11:27:34] Use the gpu map feature to reliably map OpenCL to ADL                    
[11:27:34] Adapter returns ID 0 meaning not AMD. Card order might be confused                    
[11:27:34] WARNING: Number of OpenCL and ADL devices did not match!                    
[11:27:34] Hardware monitoring may NOT match up with devices!                    
[11:27:34] GPU 0 AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series hardware monitoring enabled                    
[11:27:34] GPU 1 AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series hardware monitoring enabled                    
[11:27:34] Failed to ADL_Overdrive5_ODPerformanceLevels_Get                    
[11:27:34] Unable to load the NVIDIA Management Library