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Offline NaN

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #164 on: February 05, 2014, 11:59:33 pm »
Thanks for your feedback. I also reduced the number of workgroups, perhaps this causes the performance regression on non R9 290(X) cards. I'm working on improving the performance of non R9 290(X) cards, too.
EDIT: Could someone test this? You have to take e.g. version 0.1.2 and have to overwrite gpuhash_gcn with the gpuhash_gcn-file of v0.1.3.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2014, 12:05:39 am by NaN »

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #163 on: February 05, 2014, 10:24:13 pm »
I downloaded the windows v0.1.3 64bit file, but it says v0.1.2 when I start the program up... and I do have a roughly 2% drop in performance for c/m and sh/m with the same system after letting it run for a couple hours... copied the v.0.1.2 files back in, and its within 0.3% where it was before after just a few minutes.

windows 8.1 64bit
amd driver 13.251.0.0
R9 270 2GB & R9 270X 4GB
« Last Edit: February 05, 2014, 10:30:44 pm by Darkbane »

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #162 on: February 05, 2014, 08:39:58 pm »
Win 7x64 the same:
v0.2: 4150 cpm - 485 s/h
v0.2.1: 3700 cpm - 415 s/h
Catalyst 14.1 beta, 2x R280
« Last Edit: February 05, 2014, 10:48:45 pm by Bigboppa »

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #161 on: February 05, 2014, 07:35:58 pm »
Which Catalyst version did you use ? I have lower col/min with the latest version of the miner on R9 280X and 7950. Tried both catalyst 13.2 and 14.1 and on 14.1 have worse performance.
« Last Edit: February 05, 2014, 08:35:22 pm by krpetrov »

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #160 on: February 05, 2014, 06:37:31 pm »
A new version with more than 5% performance increase is released. The performance of a R9 290@1025MHz is now 2450+ cpm
EDIT: I used Catalyst 13.12 on Linux
EDIT 2: I'm using 2 threads per GPU.
« Last Edit: February 06, 2014, 03:27:23 am by NaN »

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #159 on: February 05, 2014, 12:50:14 pm »
So I decided to put 4 GPUs in the same rig instead of separating them (was using cases). Mashed together an open rig with some spare wood and started mining. I wanted to squeeze out a few more CPM so I decided to overclock all of the cards. Undervolting them was to follow after that.

Here is an album showing the progress: http://imgur.com/a/eoOoi

Final result after approx. 1 hour 30 min is 8494 CPM where 3/4 cards got successfully overclocked and undervoltaged. Temps are staying awesome at 62-68C.

On my gaming rig I have 1 Sapphire Dual-X OC 280X. At 1065/1500 and stock voltage it hits 2029 CPM stable. 72C in a case is absolutely nothing to complain about! Going to try and overclock it some more later on.


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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #158 on: February 05, 2014, 12:52:26 am »
yeah, possible back-up-pool would be a great thing for the future!

one position to realize is the point, that the share-/hashrate of beeeeer-pool nearly doubled from the day your miner is at the front - i know it could be more to secure the network - but we have to start and see where it goes!
Exactly. I think we should spread the word about GPU mining at beer (and 1gh). Especially to current scrypt miners, as mining PTS is actually more profitable than certain coins. And this is not considering the value of owning ProtoShares for the upcoming stuff!

Thus I've pointed a few rigs at PTS and the rest at DGB (DigiByte).

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #157 on: February 05, 2014, 12:20:32 am »
yeah, possible back-up-pool would be a great thing for the future!

one position to realize is the point, that the share-/hashrate of beeeeer-pool nearly doubled from the day your miner is at the front - i know it could be more to secure the network - but we have to start and see where it goes!

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #156 on: February 04, 2014, 09:57:00 pm »
Thanks for this! I tested it overnight on 4x 280X (3x ASUS DC2T and 1x Gigabyte Windforce 3X).

Total CPM: 8195 with 0.62% rejects...beautiful!

The temps are good, ranging from 68-72c on 40% fan speed in a hot room. 75%  fan speed on the Gigabyte card because it has horrible cooling.

Stock clocks on all cards with the DC2T's @ 1118mV and Windforce 3X @ 1200mV because it's a bitch. Could probably squeeze out a few more CPM so I will experiment with different clock speeds when I have the time for it.


I too would like to see optimized kernels for other cards in the future, so maybe if enough people makes donations to the dev he will be able to get whatever GPU he should need for testing. What he earns from dev fee on the miner is nothing.

I really like the idea of increasing the fee on the ypool version of your miner, to encourage the use of smaller pools like beer. I honestly think increasing the fee even more would be a good idea and a good thing for the PTS network.

If the 2 versions of your miner were beer and 1gh, then that would be great! We need to spread the hash rate around.

Another suggestion is to be able to setup a backup pool, so the miner for example would switch to 1gh should beer go down.
« Last Edit: February 04, 2014, 10:07:26 pm by montecristo83 »

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #155 on: February 04, 2014, 06:48:18 pm »
thanks about the info.

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #154 on: February 04, 2014, 06:38:40 pm »
The share-target of beeeeer.org has changed. It is four times more difficult than before to decrease server load but this should not affect payouts: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=234.msg34268#msg34268

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #153 on: February 04, 2014, 06:31:41 pm »
my card is HIS 7950. i can run at 1800 CPM. but my sh/m just 6~8.
when i run the first time it reach ~25sh/m but after 1-2 day it fall to 6-8. CPM don't change.
i use V 0.1.2
Code: [Select]
D:\protoshare>clpts PqQSWV1CqDRay8frPVB3sWWmMMqQfBEKMT 0
*****************************************************************************
** clpts - OpenCL PTS Pool Miner v0.1.2
** by NaN - based on ptsminer.
** If you like this software, please consider sending tips to: opencl.miner@gmai
l.com
** PTS:  PtLx9kDLTXtR1ae3u7naXLPeGjjHZ1PGoR
** BTC:  1AumJ5uzz1nuER7pBA6Bh4gNusaxhN85rc
** Your donations will encourage further optimization and development
**
** press CTRL+C to exit
*****************************************************************************
Vendor of used platform (#1 / 1): Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
        Name of device #1 / 4 (deviceID 0): Tahiti
        Name of device #2 / 4 (deviceID 1): Tahiti
        Name of device #3 / 4 (deviceID 2): Tahiti
        Name of device #4 / 4 (deviceID 3): Tahiti


spawning 1 worker thread(s)
[WORKER0] Hello, World!
[MASTER] 2014-Feb-05 01:18:07 | work received | sharetarget: 00fffffffffffffffff
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffbeefde4d


Messages during compilation of program for device 'Tahiti':

LOOP UNROLL: pragma unroll (line 160)
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[WORKER0] share found: 28426756 <-> 24746430 #1 (32) @ 1391537896
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:18:17 | 1596.00 c/m | 6.00 sh/m | VL: 1 (100.00%), RJ: 0
(0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[WORKER0] share found: 50526446 <-> 64182950 #2 (448) @ 1391538016
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:18:27 | 1734.00 c/m | 6.00 sh/m | VL: 2 (100.00%), RJ: 0
(0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:18:37 | 1748.00 c/m | 4.00 sh/m | VL: 2 (100.00%), RJ: 0
(0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[WORKER0] share found: 49151517 <-> 21210907 #3 (914) @ 1391538151
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:18:47 | 1740.00 c/m | 4.50 sh/m | VL: 3 (100.00%), RJ: 0
(0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[WORKER0] share found: 47183015 <-> 12629281 #4 (1184) @ 1391538235
[WORKER0] share found: 67043267 <-> 2054009 #5 (1216) @ 1391538243
[WORKER0] share found: 30453882 <-> 4956445 #6 (1394) @ 1391538288
[WORKER0] share found: 66928955 <-> 307595 #7 (1428) @ 1391538296
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:18:57 | 1800.00 c/m | 8.40 sh/m | VL: 7 (100.00%), RJ: 0
(0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[WORKER0] share found: 50718316 <-> 22417116 #8 (1640) @ 1391538357
[WORKER0] share found: 35133012 <-> 8683105 #9 (1748) @ 1391538383
[INFO] 2014-Feb-05 01:19:07 | mining 35s for developer
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:19:07 | 1816.00 c/m | 9.00 sh/m | VL: 9 (100.00%), RJ: 0
(0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[WORKER0] share found: 65315683 <-> 32115183 #10 (1870) @ 1391538424
[MASTER] 2014-Feb-05 01:19:10 | work received | sharetarget: 00fffffffffffffffff
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffbeefde4d
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:19:17 | 1817.14 c/m | 8.57 sh/m | VL: 10 (100.00%), RJ: 0
 (0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:19:27 | 1846.50 c/m | 7.50 sh/m | VL: 10 (100.00%), RJ: 0
 (0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[WORKER0] share found: 8658198 <-> 45017443 #11 (2590) @ 1391538138
[WORKER0] share found: 2721651 <-> 27212416 #12 (2608) @ 1391538142
[STATS] 2014-Feb-05 01:19:37 | 1857.33 c/m | 8.00 sh/m | VL: 12 (100.00%), RJ: 0
 (0.00%), ST: 0 (0.00%)
[WORKER0] share found: 58705291 <-> 34361908 #13 (2896) @ 1391538223

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #152 on: February 04, 2014, 01:41:49 pm »
yeah, my 290X makes 2637 cpm / 1100 GPU / 1475 RAM
OC with afterburner
very good software: NaN :)
oh - i have some new numbers with my 290X:
1165 core / 1475 memory / 210 watt / 58 °C / watercooled
gives marvelous 2784 cpm

Good overclock you have there, I have a couple 290X which I will try to get to run at 2700 cpm on air. It should be doable, but I foresee temps >70.

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #151 on: February 04, 2014, 03:59:44 am »
yeah, my 290X makes 2637 cpm / 1100 GPU / 1475 RAM
OC with afterburner
very good software: NaN :)
oh - i have some new numbers with my 290X:
1165 core / 1475 memory / 210 watt / 58 °C / watercooled
gives marvelous 2784 cpm
« Last Edit: February 04, 2014, 04:26:49 am by Schwede65 »

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Re: fast AMD OpenCL PTS miner released
« Reply #150 on: February 03, 2014, 07:00:11 pm »

Here are some numbers of my cards:
HD 7850:  930 cpm
HD 7950: 1815 cpm
R9  270: 1115 cpm
R9 270X: 1265 cpm
R9 290X: 2535 cpm

It's very strange that my 3x Asus 7850 could just run with about 700 cpm, even less than your one card. I tried new driver, it still doesn't work normally. Could you please help me find the solution? My English is not very good, hope you could understand me!

Are you overclocking?  And more to the point is Schwede65?  May be it is not a like comparison.  I get 780 cpm on a standard 7850.
you didn't ask me directly - yeah, i'm overclocking as hell - all what the card does with msi-afterburner - not the voltage at the card
the cards are running cooler with NaN's-miner then scrypt-mining - using less energy (~70 - 75 % compared to scrypt-mining)
so - why not overclocking these little tiny cards, when they stay around 60 °C with 75 % fan-speed?
that gives more mined PTS:)
e.g. three 7850-gpu / 1150 core / 1400 memory (they came as a overclocked version 1000/1225/2GB)
1023 cpm + 1026 cpm + 1029 cpm
« Last Edit: February 03, 2014, 07:20:32 pm by Schwede65 »