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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v12.3 (Windows/Linux)
by
Iza
on 09/03/2017, 22:55:01 UTC
To all: you can see low speed at highest possible "-i" value, if so, reduce it. For example, you specify "-i 8" for 280X 3GB card, miner reduces it to "-i 7" automatically (shows "not enough GPU memory" message), but it may work much slower than "-i 6".
So if you see that new version is slower than old version - try to reduce "-i" value a bit.
In some cases you can increase "-i" value, for example, in my tests Nano cards work best with v12.2 using "-i 7", but for v12.3 "-i 8" is faster.

@Claymore Can you make something to improve 380 series? Currently I have 210H. Too low... Thank you in advance

Tonga is really weak for ZEC.

why my nano can't use -i 8?

AMD Cards available: 3
GPU #0: Fiji, 4096 MB available, 56 compute units
GPU #1: Fiji, 4096 MB available, 64 compute units
GPU #1 recognized as Fury X/Nano
GPU #2: Fiji, 4096 MB available, 64 compute units
GPU #2 recognized as Fury X/Nano
POOL version
GPU #0 is going to use too high intensity (Cool, not enough GPU memory, intensity value reduced (7)
GPU #0 algorithm ASM, intensity 7
GPU #1 is going to use too high intensity (Cool, not enough GPU memory, intensity value reduced (7)
GPU #1 algorithm ASM, intensity 7
GPU #2 is going to use too high intensity (Cool, not enough GPU memory, intensity value reduced (7)
GPU #2 algorithm ASM, intensity 7

Make sure you set these env variables:

GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

gunna sound noobish, but where do you set these variables? i never worked it out lol but never seemed to need too

In your start.bat file is easiest:
SETX GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
SETX GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
SETX GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100

This reply makes me curious, should the missing variables:

GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 1
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1

that are recommended in the README!!! file still be set? I keep them just because it says so, but I have newer "higher end" cards.