CryptoCurrency Mining with GPUs *spawn*
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The other issue is that Ethereum should become un-mineable with gpus sometime in late 2018. XMR, like all altcoins, is anybody's guess as to relative value a year out. So, IMHO, buying multiple expensive gpus that can't pay for themselves in six months is a gamble. At this point you'd likely be better off buying a few ASIC miners.
Ok. So it is fair to say then that memory performance alone is not a sufficient indicator for Ethereum and that there is still a component that depends on calculation performance.
That could, to a certain extent, explain the performance of a Titan V over a Vega 64 beyond the pure memory difference. A Titan V should be very good at integer performance.
In my experience there is a delicate balance in timings with some cryptocurrencies in that sometimes you can achieve a higher hash rate by *lowering* the memory clock vs. setting it as high as possible. There is frequently a dialing in process where you set one clock to get the best number and then raise/lower the other to find the sweet spot. Ultimately, the best results are based on getting the best utilization of storage, bandwidth and processing resources over time and the optimal balance of those vary to a great degree from algorithm to algorithm. The low level interactions between these resources within different hardware designs when pushed to their limit in this way would probably be pretty hard to resolve without some hard-core telemetrics from the hardware.
Jawed
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It's worth pointing out that this was first supposed to happen in the autumn of 2016.
Indeed, but in this case the past isn't a good predictor of the future.
Brodda Thep
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What? They removed the difficulty bomb a while ago. And even when they introduce proof of stake it will still use proof of stake for quite some time while they transition away from it.
how big is the loss moving to POS?
it's 5 -> 3 reduction right? But aside from that is there anything else aside from ROI to stop mining? I can't seem to find one, they still need miners to help process the transactions
I started mining like 18 days ago. If I'm using Nanpool on ETH pool, am I already mining PoS? I thought that wasn't until 2018?
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Welp, the AC in my office broke and I now have to spend lots of time in it writing my PhD.. so I was doing some useless raytracing renders with my Vega to use it as a heater..
So I decided to use my Vega to mine Monero instead.
Problem is I'm not getting anywhere near the hashrates that others are getting.
I'm using the latest unified xmr-stak with CPU and GPU support. My CPU is a 10-core Xeon with 25MB cache L3 at 2.7GHz so it's at least profitable I think.
Using the latest Adrenalin driver, I get close to 200Hash/s (18 threads doing ~11 Hash/s each) from the CPU and only ~1300 Hash/s from my Vega (total 1500 Hash/s on a system consuming ~350W).
I did a profile for the miner's executable using -25% power limit, -8% core clocks (why won't it go lower than this BTW?) and 1025MHz overclock to the HBM2. At the same time I forced the fan to ~2500 RPM but since the HBM2 temps won't go above 68ºC I'm not even sure it's necessary to load the fan that much.
I'm not willing to use the blockchain driver because I steel want my Vega for gaming stuff, so I get ~1200-1300 Hash/s (one thread at 2060 and another at 1600 like the examples say?) from my Vega, which I think it's a lot lower than others are getting with the regular driver.
One thing I noticed is there's no more GPU Compute Load option in the Adrenalin driver. It seems this is still appearing for other people. It's odd because I did a clean driver installation for this.
Any tips?
I also have a 8GB RX480 in my living room's HTPC (which we don't even turn on nowadays, it's just gathering dust) together with a 65W Xeon E3, and I might use it to keep the living room warmer since I have to turn the >3000W AC on for a couple of hours at night just to have dinner without freezing to death... might as well just keep a constant 200W load that gives me some money back.
But I'm guessing Polaris is better for ETH at this time, right?
As for wallet, I'm using Android Monerujo because I saw somewhere that it was the safest wallet around. Though I think I should back it up eventually, right?
So I decided to use my Vega to mine Monero instead.
Problem is I'm not getting anywhere near the hashrates that others are getting.
I'm using the latest unified xmr-stak with CPU and GPU support. My CPU is a 10-core Xeon with 25MB cache L3 at 2.7GHz so it's at least profitable I think.
Using the latest Adrenalin driver, I get close to 200Hash/s (18 threads doing ~11 Hash/s each) from the CPU and only ~1300 Hash/s from my Vega (total 1500 Hash/s on a system consuming ~350W).
I did a profile for the miner's executable using -25% power limit, -8% core clocks (why won't it go lower than this BTW?) and 1025MHz overclock to the HBM2. At the same time I forced the fan to ~2500 RPM but since the HBM2 temps won't go above 68ºC I'm not even sure it's necessary to load the fan that much.
I'm not willing to use the blockchain driver because I steel want my Vega for gaming stuff, so I get ~1200-1300 Hash/s (one thread at 2060 and another at 1600 like the examples say?) from my Vega, which I think it's a lot lower than others are getting with the regular driver.
One thing I noticed is there's no more GPU Compute Load option in the Adrenalin driver. It seems this is still appearing for other people. It's odd because I did a clean driver installation for this.
Any tips?
I also have a 8GB RX480 in my living room's HTPC (which we don't even turn on nowadays, it's just gathering dust) together with a 65W Xeon E3, and I might use it to keep the living room warmer since I have to turn the >3000W AC on for a couple of hours at night just to have dinner without freezing to death... might as well just keep a constant 200W load that gives me some money back.
But I'm guessing Polaris is better for ETH at this time, right?
As for wallet, I'm using Android Monerujo because I saw somewhere that it was the safest wallet around. Though I think I should back it up eventually, right?
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