While a go Claymore announced a big update for its CryptoNight GPU miner, this just happen few days a go.. On September 29 he released Claymore’s CryptoNote AMD GPU Miner v10.0, there are few more features available since now miner uses the latest framework which is used for dual and zec miners. Because of too many changes in this version, bugs were found and couple of hours later Claymore released v10.1 fixing them.. and currently v10.2 still in beta.
In this article i am going to test the new features and compare the v10.2 with v9.7.
Supported cards: Pitcairn, Tahiti, Hawaii, Fiji, Tonga, Ellesmere, Baffin, Vega.
Updates list
v10.2 Beta:
– added Nicehash pool support.
– added shares validation on CPU and statistics for incorrect shares.
Problems and Fixes
- GpuMiner dk2an0 failed -4
- Increase virtual memory to 30GB. if you have 6 GPUs 8GB, set virtual memory to 6*8=48GB
- Also make sure you have the following lines added in your .bat file
GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 1
GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 - another fix, try lowering -h
- 4GB cards hashrate problem?
- try adding -h 928 -dmem 1 or lower -h to 890 if that fails
All problems will be fixed soon since Claymore stated “Don’t worry, v11 will be better, I just need some time 
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Hashrate reports for different GPUs
- Vega users have reported lower hashrate from 1950 to 1600
- Vega 56 -dmem 1 -h 1800
- Vega 56 ~1400H/s, -h 1512 -dmem 1, HBM @ 950
XMR-stak gets ~1780
Without HBCC CM gets 1200, XMR-Stak gets 1300 - 470 8GB 1750 strap, -mclock 2040, ~752H/s, testing stability, 9.7 was like 680-700, but unstable.
- RX 580 8GB -dmem 1 -h 1800
- RX 480 8gb gets 1006 h/s eth bios and -dmem 1
Claymore’s CryptoNote AMD GPU Miner v9.7 Hashrate and Power Consumption
This tests were made on a 5x Sapphire Nitro+ RX 470 4GB Mining Rig
- 1x GPU Hashrate 750 H/s
- Power Consumption 150w
- 5x GPU Hashrate 3750 H/s
- Power Consumption 650w
Claymore’s CryptoNote AMD GPU Miner v10.2 Monero Mining Performance – Hashrate and Power Consumption
Tests were made with 16.9.1 and Blockchain Compute drivers
- Driver version 16.9.1
- 1x GPU Hashrate 770 H/s
- 1x GPU GPU-z 85w
- Total Power Consumption 625w
- Blockchain Compute
- 1x GPU Hashrate 790 H/s
- 1x GPU GPU-z 67w
- Total Power Consumption 450w
start.bat details (default settings for 4GB gpus -h 900 with -dmem 1)
GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 1
GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
NsGpuCNMiner.exe -xpool stratum+tcp://xmr-eu.dwarfpool.com:8050 -xwal WALLET.WORKER -xpsw x -tstop 85 -tt 65 -fanmin 65 -fanmax 100
The new CryptoNote miner has around 50 H/s more hashrate per GPU, blockchain compute drivers performs better than 16.9.1 giving 20 H/s extra hashrate and also lower power consumption.
Before and After
- Hashrate: 750 H/s – 790 H/s = +40/50 H/s
- Power Draw: 650w – 450w (500w) = -150w
Sapphire RX 470 8GB Mining Edition Monero Mining Hashrate Benchmark
Full benchmark of this GPU can be found here: http://1stminingrig.com/best-bios-rom-sapphire-rx-470-8gb-mining-edition-samsung-memory-29-30-mhs/
v10.2
- Drivers: Blockchain Compute
- Hashrate: 845 H/s
- GPU-z Power: 60w
- From wall: 75w
v9.7
- Drivers: Blockchain Compute
- Hashrate: 765
- GPU-Z Power: 80w
- From wall: 100w
start.bat file for Monero (XMR) v9.7: ZecMiner64.exe -zpool eu1-zcash.flypool.org:3333 -zwal ZCASH_WALLET.WORKER_NAME.WORKER_NEM -zpsw x -tstop 85 -tt 65 -fanmin 75 -fanmax 100 -cclock 1130 -mclock 2150 -cvddc 850 -mvddc 875
Before and After
- Hashrate: 765 H/s – 845 H/s = +80 H/s
- Power Draw: 100w – 75w = -25w
thanks!I will work on a brand new tutorial about how to mine monero on windows with different miners and maybe i can do it for linux as well (simplemining/ethos).
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