being in discussion with vtc team, can't really say anything 
Even with a kernal that does 3MHASH@lyra2re on the gtx 980, mining quark@19MHASH is 230% more profitable with the current rates.
Pretty much... market isn't fair even with improvements. Neoscrypt is quite lucrative right now as well.
Not sure why you guys sorta neglect Cryptonote as it has a lot of market volume every day (XMR). I know SP you said you have a private miner for it, but it's not much better then the public one except for power numbers.
AMD furyx lyra hashrates. (source cryptomining blog)
Lyra2RE default: 287 KHS
Lyra2RE Pallas Mod: 450 KHS
That's the way all new cards are till people figure out the architecture. Guessing none of the devs own one and no one is developing for it just yet. We probably wont see well designed kernels for it for a few months as there is no money to be made for designing for it either as no one owns them.
@sp_, Epsylon3, djm34, tsiv & others:
Bounty for improved open source Monero GPU miner is opening up again, including partial bounty awards for progressive performance bumps.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=656841.msg11772611#msg11772611
Given the performance of existing ccminer (including private version going by the figures earlier posted), and taking into account the effective load on the 750TI while hashing this, there is possibly shitloads of optimizations to be had. In my mind, one quick path to improved performance, is in the lines of shrinking the scratchpad and running extra threads (as mentioned the other day, something like -L in the traditional cudaminer).
Bounty for improved open source Monero GPU miner is opening up again, including partial bounty awards for progressive performance bumps.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=656841.msg11772611#msg11772611
Given the performance of existing ccminer (including private version going by the figures earlier posted), and taking into account the effective load on the 750TI while hashing this, there is possibly shitloads of optimizations to be had. In my mind, one quick path to improved performance, is in the lines of shrinking the scratchpad and running extra threads (as mentioned the other day, something like -L in the traditional cudaminer).
And literally just read this on the next page after typing out my response.
Also agree, the XMR market is huge... It's one of the biggest coins out there. I mined for quite awhile on Claymore with my AMD cards, it's well worth looking into as another algo to add to the Nvidia miner arsenal.
Hey djm34, 
I understand your logic, but I really don't agree with your take on working for a bounty.
- If the bounty is too low for the possible measure of work, then the bounty is just too low, so it needs to be raised in order to attract developers. Different people will naturally value their time differently, for plenty of reasons and not just the obvious one (quality work = expensive work).
- There isn't someone keeping the bounty for themselves in case full performance is not delivered, those that funded the bounty will simply not have the full expense. It is a community organized service, paid with community funds. Being for an open source release, it would stand to benefit the Monery (and CN) community at large.
Hiring a dev is surely another way to approach the problem, but that also has it's own issues, which you're probably entirely familiar with, even though you'd probably sit on the receiving end of that deal
Personally, and funds permitting, I tend to prefer the hiring dev approach, but others might feel differently.
I understand your logic, but I really don't agree with your take on working for a bounty.
- If the bounty is too low for the possible measure of work, then the bounty is just too low, so it needs to be raised in order to attract developers. Different people will naturally value their time differently, for plenty of reasons and not just the obvious one (quality work = expensive work).
- There isn't someone keeping the bounty for themselves in case full performance is not delivered, those that funded the bounty will simply not have the full expense. It is a community organized service, paid with community funds. Being for an open source release, it would stand to benefit the Monery (and CN) community at large.
Hiring a dev is surely another way to approach the problem, but that also has it's own issues, which you're probably entirely familiar with, even though you'd probably sit on the receiving end of that deal
Personally, and funds permitting, I tend to prefer the hiring dev approach, but others might feel differently.
Also agree with this. I don't think there is anything wrong with offering bounties say for percentage gains on current miners. If you don't think it's worth your time or it's not cost effective you simply don't do it. Having milestone bounties for development encourages prolonged development which is really no different then receiving a paycheck for your time. Although depending on the algo, gains may come a lot easier in some then others. First percents will yield the most amount of money for the least amount of work as optimizing code isn't linear.
This is actually approaching what we like to call a 'business model'. It's where the rest of the professionals work in the real world. There really isn't enough competition to be had in the crypto kernel development to actually make people want to try, so they don't. As I mentioned a company could really shake this up, unfortunately I don't know enough about the software to take on something like that. There is definitely plenty of money to be made here. Large chinaminers probably already have something like that.