Monero Mining Performance

[Wexlike]

Stak CPU Miner with the following config:

"cpu_threads_conf" :
[ { "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 0 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 1 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 2 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 4 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 6 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 8 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 10 },
{ "low_power_mode" : false, "no_prefetch" : true, "affine_to_cpu" : 11 },
],

 

[Ishnish]

Much appreciated! It turns out I had a DOH moment and hadn't edited the group policies for memory allocation :O
I am currently getting 450 H/s with 6 threads @ 3.4ghz & 2667mhz RAM, 8 Threads gives me a decrease of ~30 H/s. I wonder why that is?

 

[MiniKnight]

Is that 450H with the ryzen 5 1600 stock clocks?

 

[cliffr]

How much incremental power does mining on the Ryzen 5 1600 take?

Any info on the smaller 4c models?

 

[Patrick]

@cliffr I can check a Linux box with a Ryzen 5 1600 soon. The Ryzen 5 1400 should be on the first post.

 

[Patrick]

Checked on the lab Ryzen 5 1600 stock clocks all around. This one is driving 2x GTX 1080 Ti that are mining so it is not exactly idle and it is all managed within Docker containers. There is also Rancher orchestration/ clustering which is taking up some CPU.

ubuntu@ryzen11:~$ docker attach c4dd
[2017-05-24 22:52:47] Stratum detected new block
[2017-05-24 22:53:03] accepted: 3844/3844 (100.00%), 451.00 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:53:08] accepted: 3845/3845 (100.00%), 461.78 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:53:26] accepted: 3846/3846 (100.00%), 453.85 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:53:28] accepted: 3847/3847 (100.00%), 455.43 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:53:44] accepted: 3848/3848 (100.00%), 458.05 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:54:07] accepted: 3849/3849 (100.00%), 458.15 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:54:10] accepted: 3850/3850 (100.00%), 452.86 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:54:20] accepted: 3851/3851 (100.00%), 460.56 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:54:36] accepted: 3852/3852 (100.00%), 451.92 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)
[2017-05-24 22:54:37] accepted: 3853/3853 (100.00%), 454.44 H/s at diff 10000 (yay!!!)

Decent overall performance. Incrementally, it used 69w more power from not mining to mining. That is about 6.5H/s /W which is amazing.

I do think that if you have a developer box with 1-2 GPUs for machine learning that you also want to mine on, this and the Ryzen 7 1700 are the best consumer platform CPUs right now. Breakeven at $48/ XMR is $1.01/ kWh for turning CPU mining on so it should be profitable just about anywhere.

 

[RickGrick]

@Patrick
Can you share performance of 1080 Ti ?
Can you explain why 1070 and 1080 have same performance? Or it's just MHz difference.

On XMR stak I overclocked 1070 to 720H/s

 

[Patrick]

@RickGrick the simple answer is that we are not using Windows + stak and did those numbers before stak was out. Since we are pushing over a cluster, manually editing a configuration file with stak is not ideal. I believe the miners that were available in early Q1 did not handle Pascal well so they ran into a wall on larger GPUs. Either way, need auto-configuration so it can be pushed across a cluster. If you are doing 1-10 24x7 mining machines it is easy to edit by hand. When you have dozens (that are changing), it is less practical.

I will say that an overclocked 1070 mining Monero at 720H/s is $2.29 in earnings/ day would be silly.

A non-overclocked 1070 mining Zcash is at $5.48 earnings/ day. Monero is not good for NVIDIA mining. This was done at $104 Zcash but it is now $230. Still, the Sol/s numbers work Zcash Mining on NVIDIA Pascal GPUs: We Benchmark and Compare

You can tell why I have been collecting 1080 Ti's.

 

[4004]

@Patrick
Can you share performance of 1080 Ti ?
Can you explain why 1070 and 1080 have same performance? Or it's just MHz difference.

On XMR stak I overclocked 1070 to 720H/s

I read the parity, 1070 to 1080, has to do with different RAM, GDR5 vs GDR5x.

The 1080 has more cores and higher bandwidth RAM, but hash/s are similar because the miner software cannot take advantage of the 1080 architecture (doubling the prefetch time on the 1080). That seems to be why the monero hash/s is a tie in post #1 (edit, see post 628 above).

Note the 8n 32B and 16n 64B memory access, and I got the impression it is the cause of the hash/s parity.

That is a very good 1070 hash rate. Do share how you got there.

1080 TI <--here, no monero hash/s, so Patrick please share the monero numbers.

 

[Patrick]

Using ccminer the 1080 Ti was like 520-530. Did not scale well.

Again, Monero mining (even with a better miner) on NVIDIA Pascal is silly at this point.

 

[RickGrick]

I read the parity, 1070 to 1080, has to do with different RAM, GDR5 vs GDR5x.

The 1080 has more cores and higher bandwidth RAM, but hash/s are similar because the miner software cannot take advantage of the 1080 architecture (doubling the prefetch time on the 1080). That seems to be why the monero hash/s is a tie in post #1 (edit, see post 628 above).

Note the 8n 32B and 16n 64B memory access, and I got the impression it is the cause of the hash/s parity.

That is a very good 1070 hash rate. Do share how you got there.

1080 TI <--here, no monero hash/s, so Patrick please share the monero numbers.

I have samsung memory on my 1070 and I get 4500MHz and 2000MHz on core
Palit GamesRock (it's the best air cooling for GP104) 1000RPM.

XMR Stak gave me best results. I have 99,5% shares accepted.

You can get more efficient...
I found out that you can throttle GPU with max temperature-> to get lower Voltage.
Next increase MHz

You should also search for lower timmings for mems.
In my case it was 60degree limit, +125MHz core, -362MHz mem with 650H/s

Core work on 0,72V-0,8V at 1625MHz

 

[RickGrick]

Using ccminer the 1080 Ti was like 520-530. Did not scale well.

Again, Monero mining (even with a better miner) on NVIDIA Pascal is silly at this point.

How about 980 Ti? I hoped that 1080 Ti will be almost twice better than 1070.
970-> 980 scale well.

It's not too bad. Pascal/maxwell are very efficient- more than radeons . It taking much less power consumption.
Nvidia have less price drop on second hand market.

Example
If you bought 1070 and mine for more than one year and than sell to buy Volta you won't loose too much money here with very comparable h/s and less power consumption

 

[SavageWS6]

So currently I felt like testing my 1070 8GB version, OCed the hell out of it. Using xmr-stak-nvidia

Around 710-717H/s. If I lower bfactor since It's my desktop so I don't lag, I get up to 717-721H/s

https://i.imgur.com/99K8d2w.png

 

[RickGrick]

Hmm I have b-factor "0". It's freezing my desktop.
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One more thing how much bandwidth PCI-E monero need. 295x2 with PCI-E 1.0 x1 will be limited by PCI-E?

 

[SavageWS6]

Hmm I have b-factor "0". It's freezing my desktop.
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One more thing how much bandwidth PCI-E monero need. 295x2 with PCI-E 1.0 x1 will be limited by PCI-E?

Ya, that's WAY to low. Run b-factor min 9-10 if you wanna use your desktop at the same time while mining. Just play with it and see how laggy it gets.

 

[poutnik]

I have my b-factor at 14, and in playing videos it still sometimes lags a bit (but might also be caused by having the CPU mine as well as GPU).

 

[Michael Oosthuizen]

Hi there,

After doing a bit of research, I have decided to play around with mining Monero. Over the weekend, I have set up my home PC as a miner, and these are the results I get with my GPU:

Nvidia GeForce GTX 950: 220 H/s on average, using ccminer.

I have not even bothered to try with my CPU (a 2-nd or 3-rd generation i3).

 

[RickGrick]

I'm very exciting about skylake x vs 1700 battle.
Skylake X has 2,3MB/core (L1+L2)-> non inclusive mode and AVX-512
Ryzen has perfect L3 ratio.

Ya, that's WAY to low. Run b-factor min 9-10 if you wanna use your desktop at the same time while mining. Just play with it and see how laggy it gets.

I have 1070 and 480 and everything is fine on 480.

 

[pyro_]

Here are a few more data points for you guys

AMD Firepro W2100 99h/s
AMD Firepro W600 151h/s

 

[pyro_]

Here are a few more from running a few of my machines overnight.

This is in windows using stak-cpu

Pentium B960 12.8h/s
i3-4130T 68.9h/s
Core-M M-5y71 75.1h/s
E5-1603 V3 (3 cores) 136.8h/s
E5-2609 V3 193.8h/s

PNY XLR8 OC GTX 750TI using windows and stak-nvidia 215.7h/s