XMR mining thread

[DrMrLordX]

UPDATE

I've wiped the old original post to inform readers that XMR has moved to the Monero X mining algorithm that has killed GPU/ASIC hashrates compared to CPU hashrates. GPU mining is essentially dead for XMR.

AMD CPUs, on the other hand, have become stupid-fast. Even an old R7 1700 is allegedly able to mine at 4100 H/s which is exceptional. Will update this thread later to add current XMR-related mining resources.

 

[thilanliyan]

Here are settings for 1800h/s apparently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMini...ga56_doing_4860hs_670w_vega_is_proving_to_be/

Tried but that crashes my comp using the regular 17.9.2 driver.
If anyone gets that working please do share your config file.

 

[thilanliyan]

Apparently the blockchain driver is required to get anywhere near those hashrates. Sigh, tempted to use that driver but this is my main comp...I've heard of hosed Windows installations from installing that driver.

 

[DrMrLordX]

It might be safer to experiment on a throwaway Linux install, assuming you can get everything running properly on that. Not really an option for a daily driver though eh?

 

[Madpacket]

This post is just a placeholder until I can post more resources related to XMR mining. With RX Vega posting some pretty impressive XMR mining results, we may see a major swing towards Vega mining for XMR. Maybe.

some information:

looks like you can mine in EthOS, which might be the easiest setup. Read some info here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/6dzp96/monero_mining_with_ethos/

Here are some settings that allegedly allow 1800 MH/s on Vega 56:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMini...ega_is_proving_to_be/?st=j8aflj0a&sh=2247866f

Here is xmr-stak-AMD for those interested:

https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak-amd

Thanks to thilanliyan for that info.

edit: just as a teaser, it looks like a Vega 64 mining ETH @ ~39 MH/s is going to turn in a monthly profit of $49.38 per month before taking power into account. Mining XMR @ ~1000 MH/s will turn in a profit of $51.92 per month, and you don't have to worry about XMR mining abruptly ending anytime soon. If we can get that software that lets you mine @ 1800 MH/s, then profits jump to $93.45 per month.

I'll have to give this a shot on my dual Vega 56's sometime this week.

 

[thilanliyan]

I'll have to give this a shot on my dual Vega 56's sometime this week.

Report back how it goes!

 

[Madpacket]

Report back how it goes!

OK some preliminary testing.

https://imgur.com/a/ny3m9

After these results I reset Wattman (what a piece of crap this software is) and played with the settings a little more. I'm closer to 3400H/s now at just under 400W from the wall. So around 180W per card at 1700H/h. I see others around 3600H/s but they appear to be pushing over 500W which isn't worth it IMHO unless you have free power.

Anyway not a bad start, makes me want to pick up a few more Vega cards. Wonder if I should CPU mine on this rig as well (has a R7-1700), but that's something to play with another night.

I still have my WC Vega 64 to test XMR out on but that's going in my main gaming PC shortly, so no mining drivers to play with. I'll be sticking to gaming drivers here. But perhaps combined with a 1700X it'll still be worthwhile to mine while not gaming.

Wonder how 1080Ti's compare to these Vegs cards for XMR mining. Crap it's late and I have a damn sprint meeting in the morning, enough testing for now, hopefully this helps confirm the Vega numbers.

 

[Shmee]

My understanding is that in general, Zcash is the most profitable. That said, I did mine some XMR earlier, and made some good money on it.

 

[Ancalagon44]

You can use whattomine.com to check what is the most profitable for your particular setup. They don't seem to have RX Vega cards, so I would just manually change the numbers (in terms of performance and power consumption) to match your measurements. Power consumption may be a little harder to come by.

 

[thilanliyan]

OK some preliminary testing.

https://imgur.com/a/ny3m9

After these results I reset Wattman (what a piece of crap this software is) and played with the settings a little more. I'm closer to 3400H/s now at just under 400W from the wall. So around 180W per card at 1700H/h. I see others around 3600H/s but they appear to be pushing over 500W which isn't worth it IMHO unless you have free power.

How are temps for gpu/hbm/hotspot while mining? Are these in an open air case?

My dedicated mining comp is running all nVidia (1070s and a 1080), and those cards are running at ~60C at 50% fan, so pretty cool. I'm hesitant to have a dedicated air-cooled Vega rig as I'm assuming it will sound like a 747 on takeoff . Last time I did a dedicated air-cooled AMD mining comp, it was with 3x290s, and it was really loud, even in winter time.

 

[Madpacket]

My understanding is that in general, Zcash is the most profitable. That said, I did mine some XMR earlier, and made some good money on it.

ZCASH for Geforce cards right?

 

[Madpacket]

You can use whattomine.com to check what is the most profitable for your particular setup. They don't seem to have RX Vega cards, so I would just manually change the numbers (in terms of performance and power consumption) to match your measurements. Power consumption may be a little harder to come by.

Thanks, I manually punched in my numbers and at least with Vega, XMR is much more profitable at the moment than Ether as DrMrLordX mentioned in the OP.

 

[Madpacket]

How are temps for gpu/hbm/hotspot while mining? Are these in an open air case?

My dedicated mining comp is running all nVidia (1070s and a 1080), and those cards are running at ~60C at 50% fan, so pretty cool. I'm hesitant to have a dedicated air-cooled Vega rig as I'm assuming it will sound like a 747 on takeoff . Last time I did a dedicated air-cooled AMD mining comp, it was with 3x290s, and it was really loud, even in winter time.

I have the cards in an open rig bench with poor airflow so they're pretty loud at the moment. Once I have them connected with PCIe risers and elevated with proper airflow they'll quiet down a lot. Because the cards are so close together I have them running a high RPM to keep the GPU core in the low 50's (Vega's run really well when kept cool, probably because of the HBM). Overall the temps are great as I'm not drawing that many watts. HBM temps I haven't looked at yet but they normally run another 5 to 10C over GPU core. Blower style cards will always be louder but realistically the new Vega blower designs are pretty decent given the amount of heat they have to remove. At 50% fan speeds, and when consuming around 200W they still remove a good amount of heat and are much quieter than the older 290's were.

Now if you were to dual mine (I never dual mine) on Vega then it would be harder to keep the power consumption down which would likely lead to throttling unless you cranked up the fans to compensate - which would be loud. However, with regular Ether mining (or XMR which uses a little less energy) it's not that bad.

 

[thilanliyan]

^Okay, thanks for the info. Might have to build a Vega mining comp then. Maybe sell a 1070 or two.

What fan speed are you actually running at right now to keep temps in the 50's?

 

[Shmee]

Zcash is good for Geforce cards yes, but also for Fiji based cards. Not sure about vega yet.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I found that ZEC's difficulty really spiked after awhile, making it hard to justify mining it on my Hawaii cards. I haven't tried XMR on them yet.

 

[Madpacket]

^Okay, thanks for the info. Might have to build a Vega mining comp then. Maybe sell a 1070 or two.

What fan speed are you actually running at right now to keep temps in the 50's?

Fan speeds around 2700 to 3500 RPM.

FYI I found this guide and it explains some of the issues I've been having (slowdown of hashrate over time). Probably worth adding to the OP.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2002025.msg21963141#msg21963141

Essentially you need one of those dummy HDMI plugs for your main card because when you turn off your monitor, HBCC turns off which is necessary to get the higher speeds. You also ideally want 16GB for 3Xcards and 24 - 32GB of RAM for 4 cards. I also set my virtual memory to 64GB which appeared to have helped with stability.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Duly noted.

 

[casiofx]

What are the power consumption when mining xmr with vega 64?

If its good i might wanna swap my geforce cards with some vega

 

[Hitman928]

Does the claymore Monero miner not support Vega? I'm getting errors trying to get it to run. What miner is everyone else using for Vega?

 

[Hitman928]

NM, found it, it's wolf miner. Using the suggested settings I'm getting 1700 H/s in my initial attempt

 

[thilanliyan]

NM, found it, it's wolf miner. Using the suggested settings I'm getting 1700 H/s in my initial attempt

Is that with the block chain driver?

 

[Hitman928]

Is that with the block chain driver?

Yes. Second attempt I got up to 1850 - 1900 H/s and 10-20 W less power than mining eth at the same voltages and frequencies. I have a Polaris card in the same rig right now and when I started mining eth with the Polaris card, it dropped to ~1630 H/s.

 

[DrMrLordX]

That's odd. Mining with the Polaris using a different application slowed down the Vega mining XMR? Must be a driver issue.

 

[dajeepster]

is anyone mining XMR with 1060? If so, what program are you using? I've just noticed on my 1060 rigs that they benchmarked for everything else but xmr.