15-Way NVIDIA/AMD OpenCL GPU Linux Benchmarks Of Ethereum Ethminer

[samuel-0815]

Too bad there is no equivalent of MSI Afterburner for Linux. Undervolting is quite essential for mining and as far as I know Linux users don't have any software to do so. This means we have to mod our BIOS, which for example doesn't work with my MSI 280X Gaming. So I am forced to mine on Windows... Which sucks :-(
Also I would love to use Mesa for mining

[theriddick]

The 1060 seems like a good option for people like me who have high power costs 25c on average per kwh.

The 1070 would be great if it didn't cost twice as much as the 1060, so maybe when I go building a mining computer later this year I will consider the 1060 cards, plus no doubt they overclock great so I'm sure there is some level of balance to be made whereas overclocking on AMD cards generally doesn't yield much flexibility for the wattage increases you will see.

And yes its sad that governments and BIG companies are investing in mining, effectively ruining the industry for us people struggling to survive at the bottom of the barrel, but that is how it is on good old planet Earth, the rich will ALWAYS get richer and the poor will ALWAYS get poorer.

[boltronics]

https://launchpad.net/~ethereum/+arc...buntu/ethereum

Thanks Michael.

[Michael]

I'm confused as to which version of ethminer was tested here. From the OpenBenchmarking.org script we can see the option

--phone-home off

was used. This option doesn't exist in the Genoil version, which is the recommended version for GPU mining - which I thought was the point of these tests?

Then I thought maybe the version being tested was perhaps the ethereum/cpp-ethereum build (despite the warning that GPU miners should use the Genoil version), but noticed the version in this screenshot indicated 1.2.9. That doesn't makes any sense, because 1.3.0 builds were released mid last year.

Michael, can you please clarify where you got your build, and please provide a link in your article? The article implied you may have used a PPA. If so, which one? Thanks.

https://launchpad.net/~ethereum/+arc...buntu/ethereum

[boltronics]

I'm confused as to which version of ethminer was tested here. From the OpenBenchmarking.org script we can see the option

--phone-home off

was used. This option doesn't exist in the Genoil version, which is the recommended version for GPU mining - which I thought was the point of these tests?

Then I thought maybe the version being tested was perhaps the ethereum/cpp-ethereum build (despite the warning that GPU miners should use the Genoil version), but noticed the version in this screenshot indicated 1.2.9. That doesn't makes any sense, because 1.3.0 builds were released mid last year.

Michael, can you please clarify where you got your build, and please provide a link in your article? The article implied you may have used a PPA. If so, which one? Thanks.

[ermo]

"cloud mining company"

Seriously, WTF?

This cryptocurrency thing really is a sucker's game and it should be illegal to market it without stating as such. Pyramid Schemes are illegal for reason (I'm not saying it's the same thing, just that it's within spitting range).

"Many hydroelectric power plants in Sichuan province point their excess energy towards mining facilities for cryptocurrencies so that no energy goes to waste."

Yes, cryptocurrency is tied to the price of electricity, since you're essentially converting electricity back to currency. The cheaper you get the electricity, the more cryptocurrency you can mine. Pretty obvious how a state actor would be able to take advantage of this.

One can only hope that RX580s will be available for cheap once something new and better in terms of perf-per-watt comes along.

*grumble*

[Screech]

I joined a mining group back in 2009 and had earned slightly more than 27 bitcoins, They were cheap back then. The person who started the mining op suddenly disappeared along with everyone's coins. Ever since then I have looked closely at these currencies and am convinced it's a sucker game.

Don't blame the currencies for you being a gullible person. You didn't earned anything. If you had earned 27 bitcoins then you would still have 27 bitcoins now. Any serious cloud mining company would send you the amount of btc earned daily in your personal wallet. If you don't control the private keys for your bitcoin wallet then they are not your bitcoins...

[qsmcomp]

Took a look around Newegg - seems most of those GPUs are still in-stock, but, Nvidia appears to be aware of what's going on because most of these GPUs have special deals associated with them. I figure this is Nvidia's way of convincing people who were planning on buying AMD to switch, rather than to wait for restocking.

You might be ignorant about the situation now in Mainland China.
China mines the most bitcoins and therefore ends up “exporting” the most bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
Electricity is very cheap in some region of China and has allowed Chinese Bitcoin miners to gain a very large percentage of Bitcoin’s hash power.
Many hydroelectric power plants in Sichuan province point their excess energy towards mining facilities for cryptocurrencies so that no energy goes to waste.

One of my friend in sales channels told me that the wholesale price of GTX 1050 Ti rose about 200 renminbi yuan (~29 USD) yesterday afternoon! The wholesale price of that bargain graphics card yesterday morning in Wuhan is about 800 renminbi yuan (~118 USD) each. She felt herself lucky that she pick hundreds of GTX 1050 Ti up from upstream agents in the morning yesterday.
Miners are being crazy for any graphic cards that can be used for cryptomining. Radeon cards are being out of stock for days, and in second-hand market the price of used Radeon cards are just rocketing. Someone bought a piece of RX 470 4GB for 1099 yuan (~161 USD) last year from jd.com, and he used that graphic card for playing games. 3 day ago he sold it for 1720 yuan (~253 USD)!

Some models of high power PSUs are also in hot sale because of the trend of cryptomining. e.g. Great Wall "Dragon" GW-EPS1250DA 1250W PSU. This model is capable of high current and is much more robust than PSUs from Seasonic/Super Flower/Corsair/EVGA etc.
Used PSU from Delta Electronics are even being popular for miners. Models includes DPS-1050CB, DPS-1000EB, NPS-1000BB etc. “Delta Dafa is good”.

[schmidtbag]

Hungry miners now even buy GTX 1060 or GTX 1050 Ti with or w/o Samsung GDDR5 memories.

Took a look around Newegg - seems most of those GPUs are still in-stock, but, Nvidia appears to be aware of what's going on because most of these GPUs have special deals associated with them. I figure this is Nvidia's way of convincing people who were planning on buying AMD to switch, rather than to wait for restocking.

[Ronshere]

I joined a mining group back in 2009 and had earned slightly more than 27 bitcoins, They were cheap back then. The person who started the mining op suddenly disappeared along with everyone's coins. Ever since then I have looked closely at these currencies and am convinced it's a sucker game.