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Re: [ANN] TeamRedMiner 0.4.3 - Cryptonight Thread - High hashrate, Low Power
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seefatlow
on 08/04/2019, 12:48:24 UTC

Low power consumption TRTL mining is a hit or miss thingy and seems to depend very much on silicon lottery.


This can't be the case... I have 8 nitro 64s on a rig pulling 1112w at the wall - maybe ~35w for system, so that's <135w per GPU on average, each doing 18.5 kh/s (850/1107/818/L18+18.)  I also have a ref 64 and a flashed ref 56 (850/1107/818/L22+22) doing the same on another rig.  These were all bought over a period of many months during the vega stock shortages, so they certainly weren't all binned together.

Granted I'm on platinum PSUs and a 240v line, so your power needs could be slightly higher, but prob not more than 5%-10% max.  I'm also on linux, but my tests on windows (18.12.x drivers iirc) showed similar results.

Really, memory manufacturer is the only thing I see impacting performance - mine are all samsung, and i expect based on widespread reports, and my experience w/ polaris, that hynix would underperform.  Drivers are the other possibility - though I have yet to see any versions since blockchain significantly impact performance for any algo (other than on xmr-stack derived miners.)

8 nitros 64 pulling only 1112W at the wall is mighty impressive!! I think you might be the only person being able to pull that off

The problem with my rig is none of my Vega64 nor Vega56 cards is able to run at 1200/1100/<880mv/L28+28(L24+24) without crashing. Same goes for CNr algo. Can't go below 870mV. So, I am really baffled how you are able to pull off that power draw. Wonder if temperature have a role in the stability that you are getting with that extreme undervolt. It's hot where I live and my GPU temp is 65C.