Monero Mining Performance

[m0bilitee]

Wow. Are you sure you're using only 70 watts for 570s/h? That's really nice. Best I had seen was 90 watts for 690H/s with flashed BIOS.

That could be the more efficient card I'm looking for...



Damn, is this the power used by your 750 only? Did read in several places that it could use way less (Power Usage of GeForce GTX 750 Ti With Various Crypto Algorithms - Crypto Mining Blog for example).

I'll probably get one of each and do some testing to see how it goes.

For the price I can find those second hand though, the 750ti would have a better initial price / hs by a slight margin though.

Well, that's not total system power. That's the GPU core, Afterburner from MSI reporting. I have it tweaked down now to around 65-67 Watts, I'm power limiting to -19, temp limit at 50, and have the core clock at 1160 with the memory clocked up to 1856 (again not a modded bios yet as of this writing). Power at the wall is about 160w (old ASUS MB, Pentium dual core, 2 GB of RAM, Windows 10). If I up the memory any more I start throwing errors and get IP banned from my pool. Sorry to the pool 0perator when I do that!

 

[m0bilitee]

I don't mean to question your RX480 70w power usage.
My PowerColor that I got few days ago is producing 574H/s but consumes approx 130w.

Now I have lots to work to do to reduce the power usage.
What is your secret to reduce power usage?

No secret, just downclocking the core, the power utilization, and upping the memory clock. I'm right where it starts to throw errors. Total system power is right around 160w.

 

[eva2000]

Boy, hard to say. I just got started in this myself with newer hardware on the GPU side so I don't have much experience. I'd do a search and see what others have pulled off with those.

i found these benchmarks for monero on cpu and gpus http://monerobechmarks.byethost5.com/?i=1

• HD5970 ~490H/s
• HD5870 ~240H/s
• R7 260x ~220H/s

so HD5870 about same as 750 TI but uses more power heh

I have 2x HD5870, 1x HD5970 and 1x R7 260X heh

 

[Patrick]

@eva2000 The issue with that one is that they are all user submitted. Not a ton of information on whether something is overclocked/ BIOS modded, if it is a "hero" test (e.g. it runs for 3 min then crashes) and no verification. Some of the results are downright crazy so you know there is something else going on.

For example, the Dual Xeon E5-2690 V4 setup I was using yesterday is still running in the data center and I am taking these numbers after 24 hours so they have an opportunity to heat soak.

 

[eva2000]

yeah true.. who knows

 

[m0bilitee]

@eva2000 The issue with that one is that they are all user submitted. Not a ton of information on whether something is overclocked/ BIOS modded, if it is a "hero" test (e.g. it runs for 3 min then crashes) and no verification. Some of the results are downright crazy so you know there is something else going on.

For example, the Dual Xeon E5-2690 V4 setup I was using yesterday is still running in the data center and I am taking these numbers after 24 hours so they have an opportunity to heat soak.

Yep, I used that same resource as a sanity check for my 480's. They are indeed user submitted and some of them are pretty outlandish, but even so it's a reference to start with. I still think you need to factor in power to get that sweet spot of profitability. Getting 25 more hashes/second and increasing your power by 50w isn't cost effective if you pay for electricity. If you've got a windfarm or a solar array in Phoenix, or have fixed power costs in your colo or dorm room, then overclock away!

 

[eva2000]

unless XMR price spikes by 10x fold heh

 

[Spartus]

Yep, I used that same resource as a sanity check for my 480's. They are indeed user submitted and some of them are pretty outlandish, but even so it's a reference to start with. I still think you need to factor in power to get that sweet spot of profitability. Getting 25 more hashes/second and increasing your power by 50w isn't cost effective if you pay for electricity. If you've got a windfarm or a solar array in Phoenix, or have fixed power costs in your colo or dorm room, then overclock away!

ive actually been finding it pretty light on GPU loading for power. I get better value with my R9 290's OC'd than stock after considering power draw. This was not the case when I use to mine scrypt/X11

 

[DrPeter]

Power at the wall is about 160w (old ASUS MB, Pentium dual core, 2 GB of RAM, Windows 10)

Thanks for telling me that. If we consider that the mobo + cpu use around 50 watts it's 110W for the RX 480. Could probably go lower with a custom bios (?).

 

[bash]

Any diff between a 4GB/8GB 480 card? You can get the 4GB variant for sub $150 with MIR.

 

[Marsh]

I think it matters what type of memory and clocks the GPU rx 480 card use than 4gb vs 8gb.
I learned not all rx 480 or rx 470 are created equal.
Cheaper cards use cheap and slower memory, clock slower.

 

[DVD_GR]

I am coming back for ryzen 1700 performance on Windows , after not having time to install linux again tried to mine with monero on Win 7....
1700 is a BEAST , i get 522 speed at default bios settings.... I just used xmr-stack and their recommended guidelines for hugepages in readme.txt. If 1700 default is 522 without any tuning i wonder how fast is 1800x!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update: check a bit with ryzen master clocking at 3600 , it went 560 speed but i think i need bios update my rams dont run at 2400 and losing so much from there...

 

[Patrick]

The Ryzen 7 1700 is the way to go. Between @William and I, I think STH / DemoEval has 6 Ryzen systems online right now.

 

[bash]

Which specific model of the 480 do you recommend. I am guessing a 1700 system with 480 makes a pretty good combo.

 

[Patrick]

Which specific model of the 480 do you recommend. I am guessing a 1700 system with 480 makes a pretty good combo.

For mining only or do you want to use the system? 8GB models for systems I use, and I look for quiet cooling. 4GB is going to be fine for mining.

 

[Klee]

XMR is over $19.00 again.

 

[Marsh]

I am using this RX480 card , paid $145 AR
PowerColor RED DRAGON Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 AXRX 480 4GBD5-3DHDV2 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support ATX Video Card - Newegg.com
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...D_DRAGON_Radeon_RX_480-_-14-131-706-_-Product
Using Klee 's config Best AMD RX 480 rawintensity Monero Testing post #4, it has exact same 581H/s .

Thinking buying another RX480 ( when it is onsale ) or E5 v3 or v4 ES cpu.

I brought 2 x E5-2630L v3 ES cpu, but dual cpu only produce 630H/s with xmr-stak-cpu
( not sure how power it consumes yet, may be between 140w-160w ).

 

[Patrick]

Do not check Monero pricing right now. Poloniex - Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency Exchange

You may not sleep tonight.

 

[eva2000]

woah US$23/XMR high today !

long way to go for me mining XMR heh

 

[Patrick]

@eva2000 such is crypto currency. It already crashed to $20 in an hour.