Topic: excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA GPU miner [1.5.6a] - page 39. (Read 179296 times)

You should check pool side also with excavator. And try to compare the performance with Gateless Gate. Taking into account the fees (Either Claymore's or Nicehash's), one of the best solutions might be to mine with GG on Ethermine :-). No devfee and low pool fee. Just an idea...

Running 7 x rx480 OC'd & bios mod

Averaging about 184 MH/S

On Claymore I was running 195 MH/S but pool average was only 170 MH/S

Excavator output
https://prnt.sc/fmd963

Ethermine with claymore
http://prntscr.com/fmdal2

I will be running this from now on.

Well done to the devs

Only nicehash eth protocol accepted, you can mine on nicehash or suprnova

Thanks, that did it. However, still 10% slower than GG :-(

Any ideas to improve RX 480 performance?

What about mining to other pools other than NH? Can it be done? I got an error with Ethermine 

Delete 1 worker,
Run with 1 thread per gpu

Tested v1.2.6 alpha with daggerhashimoto and got 1/3 the speed of the latest GatelessGate.

Am I doing something wrong?

A million dollar question

Zawawa, The dag epoch 129+ on polaris cards will begin to suffer perfomance in Eth and Etc,
Are you aware of this problem?

Any solution incoming?

Wrote the application, it seems not bad happened.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.flintnet.ExcavatorMonitor

I checked logs old logs for my 7950 / win 8.1
"Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v12.5"

before installing nicehash 2.0.0.7
ZEC - Total Speed: 267.107 H/s   something around 260+/255 ish definitely. with wow classic running on low or with browser was getting like 230-240.


after installing  nicehash 2.0.0.7
ZEC - Total Speed: 239.876 (it starts fast but gets slower and slower and slower to this numbers)  
now for example same version that was shipped with 1.7.5.13 shows only 238... below 240. i can close browser and there is no small games running ... and it will be below 240 anyway.

nothing changed in system at all. same driver. no updates.
same clock speed. same bat file. same program.
same everything. somehow new 2.0.0.7 version installation "cripped" my card.

Uninstalling nicehash 2 and rebooting is not helping. Also card runs 2 degrees lower.

p.s.
For some reason effect persists even on win 10. and i didn't installed 2.0.0.7 on it. really strange.
same Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v12.5 +same bat. now i just get lower numbers.... but was getting 260+ stable (without additional load) for 3 days of using that 12.5 version.


Its really not messing with bios or power management settings  
i thought it can be insensitivity drop... but nope... it was running on "6". running with "7" insensitivity not helping too anyway.
Littterally it was showing around 265-267 sols/s when i stopped nicehash 1.7.5.13..... seconds before installing/uninstalling 2.0.0.7..... and after that even old nicehash 1.7.5.13 shows 236/239.7.
it just doesn't "stabilize" on higher number of sol/s as it was before installation of new alpha version.

Brilliant work gentlemen! Continue in the same spirit!
Special thanks for LBRY!

Turns out I didn't reset my cards to stock before running this.. Is there anyway to reset the software and start again?

hello

1)how much ram need to NiceHash?
4gb ram(i have) enough?
or 8gb ram will more effective for mining?
because before mining i reciving message about virtual ram.

2)also farm 6x1070 dont use equihash algo for mining. why?
Lbry most time.

win 10 64bit, last ver vidio drivers, last ver NiceHash.

i don't understand why this "excavator" even starts when another.... for example claymore_zcash is picked ?  

also i have strange problem - after installing this new alpha nicehash 2.0.0.7 performance of claymore_zcash dropped. its lower on new version
now its dropped on old version of nicehash.....
dropped on standalone version of claymore_zcash tied to another pool.
dropped even on another system (on win 190 that i have installed just in case) on same pc.
have no idea what happened but performance clearly dropped . i hope it did not changed videocard bios or something.

p.s. any way to uninstall this new driver? windows tried to block it... but if its got installed with bat or something..... any way to turn it off?
i'm new to this all .... seen some programs like sgminer gominer cgminer cpuminer-x64 ZecMiner64
but never seen one that installs some kind of driver in system permanently to work. is it really needed?

I was wondering about the context of your request, but it's now clear to me.
We are on the same boat as I own a bunch of Polaris cards as well.
Let me see if I can run a benchmark or two for epoch 199.

ethash is here.
I have RX 580 4gb with modded+oc bios, on claymore miner I run dual (ETH+SIA) at 29.2+430
With genoil miner i have 27.2 mh
With excavator 1.2.6a i have the same ~27 mh

I tried dual mining with excavator and i have 25.7+146 ETH+SIA  on oc bios
https://pp.userapi.com/c637726/v637726838/62161/bthnUemZ7-s.jpg

and 19.1 + 142 ETH+SIA with all stock settings
https://pp.userapi.com/c637726/v637726838/62181/2z53ITFcxfY.jpg

I have binary kernels enabled.
On my Windows 7 x64 I disabled driver signature test, and rebooted, so my windows run in testmode, but excavator say that it failed to load phymem. does phymem work on Windows 7 x64? And how much it may add to speed?
https://pp.userapi.com/c637726/v637726838/621b8/zkwu5I1GNYo.jpg

I use 17.5.2 AMD drivers with atikmdag path.
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the major problem and why im here is POLARIS blackout. Claymore miner benchmarks shows that on epoch 199 Polaris will drop hashrate to 45% (from 29.2mh to ~17mh). I ran genoil benchmarks with epoch 199, genoil speed dosent slow down, but i think genoil benchmarks is not true because it create DAG only 1.3GB instead of >2GB for epoch 199.

Guys may we ask you to make some benchmark that will allow to test daggerhashimoto speeds on ethash for epoch >150, that information about Polaris is so important for us.

I was able to get further, had to disable the integrated graphics, however now I just get a "Excavator has crashed..." message. set debug level to 0 but does not show any other information, just
"opencl | Loaded phymem for direct PCIe access.
Excavator has crashed"

I'm running 16.9.2 as i'm currently using claymore, what driver would you recommend ? latest ?

what's your opinion after testing that and compared with claymore?

I started mining a week ago, with claymore dual mining eth+dcr with rx 470 but I would like to know if other miner could be better

Actually, what needs to be done is fairly clear.
It is just a lot of work. Oh well.

I am getting around 29Mh/s with an overclocked RX 480.
For some reason, excavator does not perform as well as I expected when the GPU is overclocked.
I am working on the issue right now and will keep you updated.