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Topic
Board Mining (Altcoins)
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Minning on old cards
by
LuizPauloDamaceno
on 13/03/2021, 14:21:10 UTC
Hi all,

I've relived an old Radeon HD5850 Black Edition 1 GB that i have here now using in my personal lab PC. Is there any algo (even in zpool) that i can try to mine? If yes, what miner you recommend to me in linux? It seems that all opencl stuff is working well:

clinfo output:

Code:
luiz@damalabs:~$ clinfo
Number of platforms                               1
  Platform Name                                   Clover
  Platform Vendor                                 Mesa
  Platform Version                                OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.3.6
  Platform Profile                                FULL_PROFILE
  Platform Extensions                             cl_khr_icd
  Platform Extensions function suffix             MESA

  Platform Name                                   Clover
Number of devices                                 1
  Device Name                                     AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1)
  Device Vendor                                   AMD
  Device Vendor ID                                0x1002
  Device Version                                  OpenCL 1.1 Mesa 18.3.6
  Driver Version                                  18.3.6
  Device OpenCL C Version                         OpenCL C 1.1
  Device Type                                     GPU
  Device Profile                                  FULL_PROFILE
  Device Available                                Yes
  Compiler Available                              Yes
  Max compute units                               9
  Max clock frequency                             765MHz
  Max work item dimensions                        3
  Max work item sizes                             256x256x256
  Max work group size                             256
  Preferred work group size multiple              64

glxinfo output:

Code:
glxinfo -B
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
    Device: AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1) (0x6899)
    Version: 18.3.6
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 1024MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.3
    Max compat profile version: 3.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.1
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 1023 MB, largest block: 1023 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 1021 MB, largest block: 1021 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB
    Total available memory: 2045 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 1023 MB
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD CYPRESS (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-14-amd64, LLVM 7.0.1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 18.3.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10

For now, mine grid tie system will handle it. I'm already have an ethereum rig with 2x 1060 6 GB. This old one is just for fun and curiosity.

Thanks and dont laugh me hahaha