--ethminer and 750ti on windows--
In a rig with one 970 and one 750ti:
Loading only the 970 with -t 1:
- when running -M (benchmark mode), memory controller load is at 100%, rig is hashing at 18.4Mh/s;
- when running without -M (mining mode), memory controller load is at 100%, rig is hashing at 18.4Mh/s;
Loading 970+750ti with -t 2:
- when running -M, memory controller load for both cards is at 100%, rig is hashing at 27.2Mh/s thus giving 8.8Mh/s for the 750ti;
- when running without -M, memory controller load is at 100% for 970 card and 11%! for 750ti, and rig is hashing at 19.4Mh/s, thus giving only 0.968Mh/s for 750ti (exactly 11% from 100% memory controller load).
I have to say that I have no coding skills, I just noticed this while playing with the switches and looking at Afterburner & GPU-Z readings.
Maybe some of the great coders from here can make something out of this so we can hash at full speed with the 750ti on windows.
WINDOWS BUG--
This is a known Windows bug in Ethminer, and Genoil (the dev) knows about it. In Linux, the 750ti mines at 8+ Mh/s. I am all for collaboration, I'd gain 40-50 Mh/s if it were fixed. If you are running the Cuda version of Ethminer, use the "-U --gpu-devices 0 1" string in the command line. Does "-t 2" do the same thing? I thought it was for OpenCL.
--scryptr
Yes, -t
does the same thing as --gpu-devices 0 1 ... when running -U. The only difference is that you can't choose exactly what cards to use with -t as with --gpu-devices.
About the 750ti windows bug, have you noticed also that when using benchmark mode (-M) the 750ti hashes at full speed (memory controller at 100%)? It is very odd...
the dag filewhich is used for benchmark is less random that's the reason why it performs better
More findings when running only 750ti's:
Running only one 750ti:
- benchmark mode, MCU is at 100% giving expected 8.8Mh/s
- mining mode, MCU is at 63-65% giving 5.1Mh/s
Running two 750ti:
- benchmark mode, MCU is at 100% for both cards, giving 17.4Mh/s
- mining mode, MCU is at 56-63% for card 0 and 3% for card 1, giving 5.1-5.7Mh/s total.
So it seems that 750ti can do at least 5Mh/s on mining mode but only when it's the single card running.
EDIT: weird thing is that when I add the third card (also 750ti) in benechmark mode I only get 10.5Mh/s