Re: NiceHash Miner - easy-to-use best-profit multi-device cryptocurrency miner
The purpose of the benchmark is to find out what hashrate your hardware is capable of with each algorithm in order for the auto profit switching feature to function. Without benchmarking the hardware that feature can't function since it has no data to base it's calculations off of.
Yeah, but if I have 8 identical cards, NH insists in running the benchmark on each of the individually. I wonder why there is no option to tell it to only run the benchmark in the 1st card. I wonder if it could have anything to do with the fact that when you benchmark, all the hash goes to an internal NH address and not the one you have defined in the client...It doesn't matter if you have identical cards, they will not all have the exact same hashrate by default. Due to asic quality, silicone lottery, cooling (your middle GPUs tend to run hotter) etc... the hashrate will be different on some of them.
not enough to make a difference..
you can however run the bench on one card, go into the settings and set the speed manually for each card.
Strongly agree on this. When I used Nicehash, this benchmark of same cards was really a pain. With new version and new algos added I'm guessing it could take up to 2 hours for a rig with 8 cards. Do you think everybody has 2 hours to stand and look how Nicehash is benchmarking cards?
there is something wrong tho, in these 15 minutes you are mining towards a nicehash wallet.. not your own.
its best NOT to do the benchmarks, run the program and write down the values yourself and key them in manually.
the actual benchmark is usually pretty far off anyway.. specially since with eth every new dag makes amd cards run a little slower.. its gotten to the point where my 480s like cryptonight better. my 470 rig i have the beta drivers which help but i game on my 480s and i need to have the newest stable drivers for that rig.
my 470s have been dual mining eth/lbry