Quote from: Iamtutut on February 11, 2019, 12:40:26 AM

RYO is going to fork with a new algo "CN GPU"

Wow, with floating point operations! Shocked

That should keep away ASICs for a loooong time Grin

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5. New mining algo Cryptonight-GPU (CN-GPU).
Our previously developed POW Cryptonight-heavy was made to put GPU miners in a safe harbor, from ASICs and botnets threat. Keeping an eye on recent attacks of various coins by ASICs, botnets and FPGAs, we developed brand new mining algo. Keeping in mind GPU miners, our goal is to achieve our concept of fair GPU mining:

The most possible equality for both AMD and NVIDIA lineups of GPUs.
Scalable performance from low-end to high-end GPU.
Further slowing down CPUs in mining, making botnet creation times more inefficient.
Keeping algo ASIC-resistant.
Making algo FPGA-resistant.
Remove ability to attack network using Nicehash.
As you can see, the task is nowhere trivial and it took several weeks of hard work which resulted in the completion of all 6 goals:

Hashrate of NVIDIA GPUs increased up to 35% (depending on model) compared to CN-Heavy. Testing showed the potential of getting close results for comparable by compute capabilities cards. Though some AMD cards show decrease in hashrate compared to CN-heavy.
It is simple like that: If your GPU A is faster in Flops than GPU B - it will be faster in CN-GPU algo.
CPUs are even more slowed down e.g: Intel i3 - 4h/s (maximum - 4 threads), AMD Ryzen 1700 - 100hs (max - 16 threads)
Known ASICs are not capable of handling such computations, the cost of creation of an ASIC of this type is too high to be considered possible.
FPGAs can be programmed to execute any algo, but FP32 math is heavy even for this kind of devices, making the whole idea of spending dozens of thousands of USD and getting relative result to couple hi-end GPUs.
It is obvious that NH won't be supported a while. But keep in mind that if the algo will be popular among other projects - there is a possibility of being added there.
As a result, we come up with an algo that heavily relies on compute capabilities of chip and not dependant on the amount of GPU memory. The CN-GPU based FP32 math is the first of a kind mining algo in crypto world.

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