I did test the 12900k at last and the results are different. This time the best peroformance was when using 12 cores, 8p+4e (out of 8p+8e total available), however running 8p+2e is just about the same. At least this time it's using most cores...

Then I tested some other algos and got more confused:
Yespower with R=8 (tide coin) does best when using all physical cores, the more the better, both p and e. It's not "restricted" to 4 p cores on the 12400 and 12700s like generic yespower/power2b.

MinotaurX performs best on the 12400 when using all 12 threads! Not just the physical. That was a surprise for me. On 12700s best is only physical cores, 8p+4e.

Didn't get a chance to test the 12900k yet, but did test a 12400 which has no e cores, only 6 p cores (12 threads). I get the same outcome: each core runs at ~350 h/s, 4 cores at ~1000 and more than that only gets slower.

It was always detecting thr correct number of total threads. Never mind on the rest.

Just to put some numbers behind my rant: p cores do ~380 h/s independently, and e cores ~170. 4 p cores give me ~1250 and anything more is getting slower. My initail run of 12 alternating cores (out of habit of cours) got me the ~750-800 i mentioned above. I tried differnet combos of p and e, only p, even only e. The 4 core test is always the fastest... confirmed on 2 seperate 12700s.
I still need to the same test for the 12900k. My current affinity config is probably wrong anyway.

I tested each core separately on the 12700s and concluded that first 16 cores are p-type (with alternating threads) and last 4 are e-type. However when using more than 4 cores the performance only suffers. As of now the best setting is 4 p threads, using only even-numbered ones.

Indeed I use the prebuilt binaries. I'll try compiling myself and see what I get.

I've been using the miner for some time on different intel cpus. Why are Alderlake series perform considerably worse than other, supposedly weaker cpus? For example i have 2 12700 that do about 750-800 kh/s, while 6700 does almost the same (~700) and 8700 is actually better (~1200). 12900 is faster at ~2000.
They also don't register the correct number of active cpus, but rather half of the total cores: 12700 is 12 cores (8p+4e) and 20 total threads but reads 10 active. 12900 is 16 (8p+8e) and total 24 cores, but reads 12 active.
Alderlake is running miner variant avx2-sha-vaes while older ones running only avx2.

Oh well. Actually missed the news on this. Guess it's why price crashed so fast...

I get why most were removed, but pyrinhashv2? It's brand new and being used... why remove it?

I don't think that too often. Maybe twice a day at max, sometimes not switching for days...
But anyway it can't be banned since Gminer always works, even right after another miner fails

They are all Ethernet wired, allways have been.

I know them both. However I'm not looking for BTC payout.


BTW, i tried mining a cpu algo today and the same thing happened with zergpool. Other pools seem to work flawlessly.

hi, new here  seems like a good place to request help for my problem. I mine using a few nvidia GPUs to zergpool for auto-exchanging and it used to work just fine. I sometimes would switch mining apps based on profitability. a few weeks ago I started getting errors of type "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it". It would happen with every pc with a gpu (all on the same local network) and every app, except for gminer which always works! if I try to mine the same algo, using same settings, on the same gpu, but with a different miner - no good. Now I know that it might not be the biggest problem since I can actually mine, however sometimes I'd like to mine something not supported by gminer or just a more efficient miner. Adding to the mystery is that there are times when I do manage to get a connection with a different miner, then it works for something between a few minutes to maybe an hour, and after that the error again. Usually it takes a few hours to "reset" itself. The problem has to be at my end, but can't figure out what to look for since gminer always connects and I don't recall any changes being made to my connection/router options. Any ideas?