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Re: Open Source XPM (Primecoin) GPU Miner & Pool xpmforall.org
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eXtremal.ik71
on 21/07/2019, 21:17:06 UTC
New beta version of xpmclient for AMD cards available:
http://coinsforall.io/distr/xpmclient-opencl-10.5-beta1-win64.zip
http://coinsforall.io/distr/xpmclient-opencl-10.5-beta1-linux.tar.gz
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SHA256:
c6a1d06eb4711c252883bdcd4ddd17033957a197467bfa631a5855d5dc35ce8f  xpmclient-opencl-10.5-beta1-linux.tar.gz
12f1abec56cfc39e7e4ad10db06989e799fffdaccf44dff2154a49cd0da5cb71 xpmclient-opencl-10.5-beta1-win64.zip

Main feature of this version - new experimental kernel partially writed using GCN assembly language (https://github.com/CLRX/CLRX-mirror). For enable this, change parameter in config.txt:
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# Kernel type
#   generic - OpenCL kernel
#   asm - experimental kernel created using GCN assembly, no any warranty!!!
#     this kernel doesn't support Tahiti (HD7970/R9 280X) and Navi (Radeon RX5700)
#     other GPUs can work
kernelType = "asm";

"asm" kernel is in not final release, it can works and show big performance advantage (such as 10-12% for Vega and up to 30% for Radeon 4xx/5xx GPUs on Linux.. so big speed up is possible because Linux amdgpu-pro drivers not so good for XPM mining), or fails to launch.
Also, interesting to see result of different GPUs in benchmark mode (xpmclient -b) with generic and asm kernels.