Topic: Minning on old cards (Read 145 times)
Lolz if you are going to talk about a old gpu it should be those with atleast 3gb vram not 1gb cards, they can't do anything than use for light gaming or just display kit
An old card is less power efficient, probably requires an old (unoptimized) miner, which only supports old
algos that have been taken over by ASICs. It will cost more to run than you can earn from mining.
Old mining softwares are well optimized, it's just like using HD7970 on claymore miner, do you know how good these AMD cards performs with Claymore miner? The problem here isn't optimization but the card OP is talking about (hd5850 1GB) is way too old for anything, R9 390, 380s are old card but still good for people who have free electricity just like the HD7970 too algos that have been taken over by ASICs. It will cost more to run than you can earn from mining.
Well if you really want you can try and mine Bitcoin or Litecoin with it, there are VERY VERY old miner software out there somewhere where you can mine BTC. Most likely you will need to mine for an entire year to maybe earn a penny of BTC or LTC mining. Or if you like playing the lottery you can mine on a solo pool and hope you find a block.
However about 5 years ago, I tried this on an Antminer S3 which at the time was already ancient and wasted like 9 months mining and didn't hit a block. With your 1GB GPU I think it would take maybe 100 times the age of dinosaurs extinsions to find a block, but you never know. You might get lucky and hit a block.
However about 5 years ago, I tried this on an Antminer S3 which at the time was already ancient and wasted like 9 months mining and didn't hit a block. With your 1GB GPU I think it would take maybe 100 times the age of dinosaurs extinsions to find a block, but you never know. You might get lucky and hit a block.
An old card is less power efficient, probably requires an old (unoptimized) miner, which only supports old
algos that have been taken over by ASICs. It will cost more to run than you can earn from mining.
algos that have been taken over by ASICs. It will cost more to run than you can earn from mining.
Throw that useless gpu away or give it out to those kids who still cares about counter strike gaming on pc lol, even with free electricity it still doesn't make any sense
This says it all.
Basically if your card is not 3gb nvidia = octopus
or 4gb amd = Ron/kapow fuck old cards.
if you want eth a 6gb card is a kind of safe bet.
Throw that useless gpu away or give it out to those kids who still cares about counter strike gaming on pc lol, even with free electricity it still doesn't make any sense
Hi all,
I've relived an old Radeon HD5850 Black Edition 1 GB that i have here now using in my personal lab PC. Is there any algo (even in zpool, i have a friend (but in windows) that handle few units of Sol/s nowdays with an Quadro K420, so i think this card can perform better with correct miner) that i can try to mine? If yes, what miner you recommend to me in linux? It seems that all opencl stuff is working well:
clinfo output:
glxinfo output:
For now, mine grid tie system will handle it. I'm already have an ethereum rig with 2x 1060 6 GB. This old one is just for fun and curiosity.
Thanks and dont laugh me hahaha
I've relived an old Radeon HD5850 Black Edition 1 GB that i have here now using in my personal lab PC. Is there any algo (even in zpool, i have a friend (but in windows) that handle few units of Sol/s nowdays with an Quadro K420, so i think this card can perform better with correct miner) that i can try to mine? If yes, what miner you recommend to me in linux? It seems that all opencl stuff is working well:
clinfo output:
Code:
luiz@damalabs:~$ clinfo
Number of platforms 1
Platform Name Clover
Platform Vendor Mesa
Platform Version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.3.6
Platform Profile FULL_PROFILE
Platform Extensions cl_khr_icd
Platform Extensions function suffix MESA
Platform Name Clover
Number of devices 1
Device Name AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1)
Device Vendor AMD
Device Vendor ID 0x1002
Device Version OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.3.6
Driver Version 18.3.6
Device OpenCL C Version OpenCL C 1.1
Device Type GPU
Device Profile FULL_PROFILE
Device Available Yes
Compiler Available Yes
Max compute units 9
Max clock frequency 765MHz
Max work item dimensions 3
Max work item sizes 256x256x256
Max work group size 256
Preferred work group size multiple 64
glxinfo output:
Code:
glxinfo -B
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
Device: AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1) (0x6899)
Version: 18.3.6
Accelerated: yes
Video memory: 1024MB
Unified memory: no
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 4.3
Max compat profile version: 3.1
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
VBO free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
VBO free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
Texture free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
Texture free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
Renderbuffer free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB
Total available memory: 2045 MB
Currently available dedicated video memory: 1023 MB
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
For now, mine grid tie system will handle it. I'm already have an ethereum rig with 2x 1060 6 GB. This old one is just for fun and curiosity.
Thanks and dont laugh me hahaha
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