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BitShares PTS / Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« on: February 16, 2014, 11:40:55 am »
win7 64 amd13.12
280x 3100, but 290 only 2800?
280x 3100, but 290 only 2800?
I released a fast OpenCL PTS-miner for AMD GPUs. The performance is 3100+ c/m on a R9 280X and 1300+ c/m on a 7870, so that this seems to be the fastest released miner. Binaries are available for Windows and 64bit-Linux.
DOWNLOAD v0.1.x: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d5qvec5kxlug1bm/FR3Y_78Eag connects to the beeeeer.org pool, which has 2.5% pool fees. The developer fees for this version are 7/367 ~ 1.9%.
DOWNLOAD v0.2.x: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1ioh00043hqbsbk/wTptW3dr22 connects to the ypool.net pool, which has 5% pool fees. The developer fees for this version are 2.5% to make smaller pools more attractive. The developer fees are automatically transferred by ypool.net to the developer so the user's miner does not need to reconnect to support the developer.
UPDATE 10: version v0.2 of the miner is released, which supports the pool on ypool.net. If you want to connect to beeeeer.org you should use v.0.1.2. The miner does NOT support the 1GH-pool yet because the pool does not implement the latest xpt-protocol but 1GH-pool support is still planned. EDIT There was a typo in the README. The usage of v0.2 is <exe-name> -u <username>.<worker> -p <pass> -t <GPU DeviceID list>
UPDATE 12: I released a new version with large performance improvements. The syntax of the command line options of v0.1.x has changed and one has to specify the device IDs like in v0.2.x (see README). Furthermore, the command line option -a was introduced to select an algorithm. I guess that -a 0 or -a 2 should be fastest on R9 290(X) and -a 1 or -a 3 should be best for non-R9 290(X) cards.
known issues: The miner does not run if the installed Catalyst driver is too old. Multi-GPU support works for most users but sometimes the miner won't work if there are different cards installed. Then you have to run an instance of the miner on each card. The miner is not optimized to run on 5000 and 6000 series GPUs and needs about 1.2GB free GPU RAM.
NOTE 1: When you post errors I appreciate some information about the operating system (Windows or Linux / 32bit or 64bit is sufficient) and the used Catalyst driver. Furthermore you should suppress the section between the stars of the output of the miner excluding the miner version (at the moment it hasn't any relevance but it will become important in the future).
NOTE 2: Please make sure that you are not using an outdated Catalyst version and read the README.
I would be grateful for donations to speed up the development of a version for Nvidia GPUs and 1GH-pool support:
PTS: Pk3mHjZrW3HGmx5jMNaN1GhXT2WgXHjRCz
BTC: 1AumJ5uzz1nuER7pBA6Bh4gNusaxhN85rc