...ignoring the fact it's a very power hungry algo.
You know that the power depends on the voltage, right? Lower the power limit to 50% on nvidia or lower the voltage/core clock on amd and it'll draw less than ethereum. Nobody is forcing you to run at max power level, especially when the efficiency of hash/watt decreases with the power draw.
Lyra2z can still be mined at the original power level. You can simply lift the limit up and it'll hash more.
ProgPow and most other core-based algorithms scale perfectly well with core count and doesn't have these weird discrepancies where a weak card (RX 570) hashes as much as a twice more expensive one (GTX 1070). That way you can get 2x more performance from 2x more expensive card, so it just balances it out. RX 570 and 580 will be as powerful as GTX 1060 3 and 6GB. Vega 56/64 will be as powerful as GTX 1070/1070Ti.
Yes, there are algorithms where AMD or NVIDIA are still better, but right now we're focusing on ProgPow.
I think you missed the point.
Of course you can lower the power limit on ProgPow. I'm doing just that with my Vega cards for example. I need to drop it by 30% to keep a rig of six Vega64's under 1400W... Which unfortunately it has a large impact on the hashrate. So it might improve your efficiency (slightly) but not enough to make it remarkably more profitable. On RX 570's dropping PL by only 10% radically lowers hashrate and it worsens as you go lower.
@dragonmike ? are your vegas modded with power play tables etc ?
I have 8 vegas and they are all modded voltages are like 850 to 800 for thr core and they pull no more than 160 to 180 watts even on x16 , progpow and like 140 watts on cn forks .
vegas must be power play modded with that spreadsheet unless you have refernce card which has a power play mod floating around.
I never even touch the power limit on any of my amd cards, it’s overdriven tool for my rx cards and powerplay plus overdriven for the vegas.
My vegas are my best mining cards hash/watt.
btw why is there no power play mod for rx cards?
Holy thread resurrection batman!
Actually I had never seen that answer so happy days.
I am indeed running a modded soft PP table on the Vegas. But I can't run such low voltages or the cards will crash. I've got reference Sapphire RX Vega 56's flashed to 64's btw. Have you got AIB Vegas?
This is my reg file, in case someone can spot anything terrible in it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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