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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: SRBMiner Cryptonight AMD GPU Miner V1.6.8 - V8 & algo switching
by
fantas21
on 21/10/2018, 11:47:50 UTC
I think found the best method to calculate intensity and threads for GPU's to mine cryptonight_v8. Almost is working for me with 3 different GPU's.

First found total "compute units" or "ROPS" of GPU to use.

Example 28 compute units. 2Gb GPU Ram

Then rest 2 for internal work of GPU and OS needs. 28 - 2 = 26.

If use total compute units GPU don't have sufficient memory to work.

26 Compute units. Then multiply * 2. 26*2= 52 is the intensity for a GPU with 2Gb ram and 28 compute units and using 1 thread. With this configuration GPU works with maximum ram that can do. ~1700 Mb.

If we want to use 2 threads don't multiply * 2. Every thread is ~850Mb of memory used. Intensity 26 and  threads 2

If the GPU have 4Gb we can use intensity = 52 = 2Gb and threads 2 = 2Gb (total 4Gb ram) or intensity=26*4= 104 and 1 thread.

Worksize is minimun 8 and works fine in multiples of 8. 8/16/32.......the greater worksize is, greater time to found a result.

With a 1Gb GPU is easy. 28 - 2 = 26 intensity and threads 1 ~850Mb memory used, or 26/2=13 intensity ~425Mb memory used and threads 2 = 425Mb*2 = 850Mb memory used.

I hope this can be useful for some cases.

I use this variable in batch file: setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0