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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: MultiMiner & MobileMiner: Your Coins. Your Pools. Your way. Win/Mac/Linux/Mobile
by
atomicchaos
on 20/12/2013, 14:35:57 UTC
Okay folks, I'm calling out atomicchaos, skyhigh2004, and techstorm2 specifically. Please get in touch with me if you get better scrypt performance with cgminer than you do with bfgminer so I can investigate. I'm going to be digging into the scrypt code in bfgminer and I need some sort of lead on the performance difference you guys are seeing.

Each time I've asked for more details on this I've been met with silence. I really would like to get this reproduced and fixed.

I'm sorry, I missed this message originally, as I wasn't checking the forums as much. The performance difference is bad, especially when multiplied by the number of rigs I have. I think my biggest issue is that Luke has already stated that he doesn't care about Scrypt, so it's going to turn out exactly like CGminer did I think. However, it appears that Luke at least works with you, where CK and crew were a bit difficult from what I'm reading into things.

Here are my arguments for CGminer on this sample rig with 4 x 7950s:

Code:
-s 1 --intensity 20 --gpu-engine 1020 --gpu-vddc 1100 --thread-concurrency 24000 --lookup-gap 2 --worksize 256 -g 1  --expiry 10 --queue 0 --auto-fan  --failover-only

Output with CGMiner:
True   GPU   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02937   1610%      74   641.5   4963   76   0   1.9223   20
True   GPU   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02937   1610%      82   628.2   5001   82   0   1.9371   20
True   GPU   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02937   1610%      90   628.5   4782   99   0   1.8522   20
True   GPU   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02937   1610%      74   641.4   4961   79   0   1.9216   20

Output with BFGMiner:
True   OCL   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02929969   1606%      73   616   23   0   0   2.441   20
True   OCL   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02929969   1606%      81   590   19   0   0   2.016   20
True   OCL   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02929969   1606%      88   592   26   0   0   2.759   20
True   OCL   opencl   Litecoin   3231.18329466   .02929969   1606%      74   621   25   0   0   2.653   20

Multiply this by 40+ rigs and I've got a significant loss in hashing power. Programatically, I can't offer any help, as I don't have that skill set, but I'd certainly love to test a solution, as I miss having the latest Multi-miner, really grew to love it.