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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: excavator by NiceHash - multi-algorithm NVIDIA & AMD GPU miner [1.2.11a]
by
zawawa
on 07/08/2017, 16:06:04 UTC
zawawa, what about GCN1 cards?

Dual-mining and the Linux port are my priorities now, but I will definitely get to GCN1.

Zawawa, I'm relatively new to Ethereum Mining - I've only been doing it a couple of months.
I've tried your Excavator miner and I have to say I'm impressed!
I did some benchmarking with my computer which uses dual GTX 1060 6GB Nvidia graphics cards and while it's 2% slower compared with ethminer, I saved a whopping 12% on electricity using excavator compared with Ethminer, making your miner the more efficient miner by 3%!
Plus, your Excavator miner is a darn sight more stable compared with Ethminer too!

Kudos to you, good sir!

PS.  There's an bug with dag generation and share submission.  After about 4 hours of mining, Excavator generates a new DAG cache, and then the next dozen or so shares are rejected with errors, "Share above target" or "Job not found"

More optimizations by dropky are on their way. Very impressive, actually. I am looking into DAG generation right now.