Topic: NSGminer v0.9.4: The Fastest NeoScrypt GPU Miner - page 34. (Read 221755 times)

Very nice. Time for me to start wrapping my head around the white paper!


Not sure yet, but considering we won't have to compete with the ASIC's, any speed will be a good speed. From what I've read though, hopefully we should see faster speeds but, once again considering you won't be competing with ASIC's, it doesn't technically matter really.


Anyone who wants to make a name for themselves! The race is on to see who can make the best open source miners!

Who will translate this into java?

what kind of speeds can be expected from GPU's?

Fantastic news. I'm so glad we can start using our gpus on real coins again soon. White paper is a great read. Thanks for all the hard work ghostlander!

Finally the time has come. i was waiting for this eagerly. Hope I could star mining soon with my GPUs.

Need to wait for more information in here.

Great work as usual 

Amazing, really well done Ghostlander!

GPU miner will be publicly avaliable before Feathercoin switch network to this algorithm.
As code is opensource now, everybody can devolop/modify gpu mining software of his choice.

gpu miner is available for this?

Nice. Expecting new shit coins with that algo.

NeoScrypt is the next generation proof-of-work algorithm designed to replace Scrypt. It consumes less memory than the latter yet is more memory intensive and stronger cryptographically. Combines power of Salsa20/20, ChaCha20/20, BLAKE2s and FastKDF into a secure ASIC resistant solution. It isn't some kind of Scrypt-Jane or Scrypt-N or whatever.


NeoScrypt, a Strong Memory Intensive Key Derivation Function (white paper)

NeoScrypt - the latest proof of work algorithm (press release)

NeoScrypt (source code)


NSGminer v0.9.4:

GitHub (source code)

32-bit Windows release

64-bit Windows release

NSGminer is an advanced NeoScrypt CPU and GPU miner with the OpenCL support delivering the best hash rates for the AMD Radeon hardware (HD4000 series and newer). Should be compatible with the latest AMD Catalyst drivers. Also provides limited support for all NVIDIA OpenCL capable GeForce, Quadro and Tesla hardware. No external dependencies other than libcurl. Getwork, GetBlockTemplate and Stratum protocols are supported.

Example configuration for the AMD HD5870:


Example configuration for the AMD R9 280X (HD7970):


Example configuration for the NVIDIA GTX 1080:


--thread-concurrency, --shaders, --vectors are not used for NeoScrypt. --intensity or -I is the primary performance optimiser. May be set between 8 and 20 according to your video card's memory size. For example, -I 16 means (2 ^ 16) GPU threads each of 32768 bytes = 2,147,483,648 bytes or 2Gb. There are some configuration tweaks available in neoscrypt.cl which might deliver a little bit of additional performance. For example, FASTKDF_COMPACT 1 may yield a bit more performance on the AMD Tahiti and Hawaii based cards.


NeoScrypt CUDAminer v1.0.1:

GitHub (source code)

Windows builds (32-bit and 64-bit, CUDA 6.5)

Supports the NVIDIA Kepler (GK110), Maxwell and Pascal architecture GPUs only.


NeoScrypt CPUminer:

GitHub (source code)
v2.4.3 for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)
v2.4.3 for MacOS X (32-bit and 64-bit)
v2.4.3 for Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)


Implemented in Phoenixcoin v0.6.6.0 initially and hard forked at block #400K (13th of August 2014). Phoenixcoin testnet runs with NeoScrypt since the 17th of July 2014. Feathercoin switched to NeoScrypt when the 1st GPU miner and pool software became available (block #432K, 26th of October 2014). Many other coins followed (List of NeoScrypt Powered Coins). Updates will be posted to this thread.


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