Hello, this is a question for Mr. Claymore
My rig has 4 gtx1080 cards (radeons and 1070s are very hard to find or overpriced
)
If I solo mine LBRY (with ccminer) it gives 380 MH/s lbry per card (a bit overclocked)
If I solo mine ETH, it gives 22.5 MH/s ethash per card (pity there is no way to mod memory straps on Pascal, at least that I know of)
This is where the things get interesting for 1080 cards:
If I run dual mining ETH + LBRY, with default -dcri settings (a low one) it gives full ETH hashrate and very low LBRY hasrate.
But when I start increasing -dcri, the ETH hashrate is still goings strong (minimal losses), but LBRY hashrate has a steady increase.
The max -dcri value Clayrmore Dual Miner allows me to set is 500: at that value, ETH hashrate is STILL STRONG and LBRY hasrate went up to almost 55% of full solo mining hashrate.
So, with -dcri 500, Claymore Dual Miner 9.7 gives 19 MH/s ETH hashrate + 205 MH/s LBRY hashrate
Calculated as a percentage of full solo mining, it is something like 85% of full ETH + 54% of the full LBRY at the same time
That is a great result!
It seems that if -dcri could go above 500, the LBRY hashrate would still increse, and hopefully ETH hashrate would decline only a bit, until the slow declining limit is reached. I want to know what is the limit
Gtx1080 cards have very strong processing power, but gddr5x memory is just not good for ethash algo. Lbry algo really relies moslty on processing power, so when doing solo LBRY mining on a gtx1080 card, you can downclock memory and hash would stay the same. Ethash relies on memory transfer, so when doing solo ETH mining on a gtx1080 card you can downclock the core waaay down and decrease power limit alot and the card would still give 22 MH/s. With dual mining, both core and the memory should be fully utilized.
Soooooooo... is it profitable to mine on -dcri 500? Sadly, it is no more profitable than mining solo LBRY. 19 MH/s ETH is similar to 180 MH/s LBRY or just below in terms of profits right now. Ofc, dual mining this way certanly won't hurt, but it is just not more profitable than simple solo LBRY.
Question for Mr. Claymore is: Can -dcri be set on more than 500 or can you make a test build with limit unlocked so we can try it?