Topic: Mining with a Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB - page 2. (Read 89490 times)

Yo, thanks for the response. I updated CCminer and it boosted me to around 300-450 H/s - but it's also a lot laggier than the old version - according to task manager it uses next to no resources but there's very noticeable lag?

I looked into Zcash but I couldn't find any Pay Per Share pools for it, and I don't normally mine long enough for the regular pools to pay me.


What I don't understand is that other miners reported that this graphics card had hashrates in the Mh/s https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4rvdsu/gtx1060_ethereum_hashrate_estimate/  - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gtx-1060-discussion-thread-1575547  - Can anyone let me know as to why my hashrates are so low when miners with the same card easily break 1 Mh/s?

My full specs are:
16GB Ram

Gigabyte B150M-D3H-CF Motherboard
Intel Core i5 6600 CPU 3.30GHz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Windows 10 64 bit

Which do you think I'd profit more from mining, MRX or Ethereum? Or is there some other cryptocurrency I should look at? Like I said I mostly leave miners on in the background, but if I really am missing out on that many kh/s then I'd like to fix it.

It's very possible that I'm missing something obvious and I'm getting the right hashrate though.

Thanks for the help thus far.

with a nvidia card, better for now mining Zcash

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ewbfs-cuda-zcash-miner-1707546

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/nicehash-eqm-zcash-nvidia-optimized-miner-maxwellpascal-cpu-mining-v104c-1677369

If you want really to mine monero for now i think there is only CCminer, you may want to use an updated version compiled for cuda8 that should give you about 450/500h on a gtx 1060 (gtx 1070 is about 700) @ low tdp's

https://github.com/KlausT/ccminer-cryptonight/releases

Also next time try to read up the forum, especially nowadays when zcash & xmr at hot coins, there is alot of top topic regarding them 

Hello everyone - so I have a Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, it isn't a mining rig it's my gaming PC, I started mining two-three days ago on and off using my 1060 rather than my i5 - I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a few things. I've seen people post their hashrates on these forums who have older graphics cards than me (750's and what not) and get more than 2-3x my hashrate, so I'm assuming i'm doing *something* wrong. I need to clarify I am not exactly a hardware enthusiast I had mates help me build this PC, but I'm pretty sure I should be getting higher hashrates. NOTE: I haven't touched overclocking (nor would I care to tbh)

I've been mainly mining MXR(CCminer CRYPTONIGHT 2014-9-26), Litetcoin(CUDAminer 2014-2-28), and dabbling in a few other currencies, I've only been GPU mining, and haven't used my CPU for anything other than chipping in on CUDAminer - I'll post screenshots of my hashrates and my config below:

https://i.imgur.com/UwqC1jN.png
Depending on my -l settings I get different hasrates, but they always cap out above 570+ and I get the error
https://i.imgur.com/rWWRqNg.png

The autotune also never goes above 560.  At 560 my temperatures start to rise to around 70c, nothing below 75% of stock fanspeed keeps it from rising (so in theory I probably don't even want to go above 560 kh/s)
This is my config " cudaminer   -l t30x16 -H 1 -i 1 -o stratum+tcp://litecoinpool.org:3333 -u xxx -p yyy"
This is a list of -l settings I swap out often to get a roughly stable specific rate.
T6X12 = 240
K6X9 = 290
K12X5 = 310
K23X7 = 350
T24X6 = 370
K19X7 = 380
T7X29 = 440
T8X31 = 480
T18X25 = 500
T19X32 = 530
T30x16 = 560

I've messed around with all kinds of settings for CUDAminer but I still can't get it above 560 kh/s with my GTX 1060GB (with out the error) even though I've seen (arguably) weaker cards go 1000kh/s+

Monero Hashrates:
https://i.imgur.com/bQci4OO.png

I can do a little customization with CCminer but I mostly just let it autotune, however I was never able to get it past 560kh/s either. On autotune settings my temperatures are acceptable around mid 60c with stock fan speeds around to 50-60%
ccminer -o stratum+tcp://fcn-xmr.pool.minergate.com:45590 -u yyy -p xxx


The only idea I can come up with as to why my hashrate is so disappointing is that I'm somehow limiting my GPU in some far away hidden setting, as I said, I am not a hardware guy so maybe I simply have a weaker GPU than I thought, but I'd still like to hear some more knowledgeable voices about it.

With these hashrates I make a decent amount of coins, mining a few hours a day then leaving my PC on other night, but I can't help but feel I'm missing out on hashrates considering this GPU is so powerful in game.

This is my first post on this website,  I apologies for any ignorance.

Any wisdom offered is appreciated.