[AMD & nVidia] What miner application to use ?
[AMD & nVidia] What miner application to use ?
When you have chosen your mining hardware, you can chose a miner application compatible with your mining devices. Some miners were forked so you may find different versions compatible with GPU and ASIC. Please keep in mind that when ASIC exist for an algorithm, it won't generate any prifit from it with graphic cards. For example, sgminer was forked for ASIC's but several algorithms of sgminer are ASIC resilient so you'll find sgminer forks for ASIC's but also other forks of the same miner for graphic cards.
Virtual memory should be set to 16 GB and graphic cards drivers should be updated according to the miner application's recommations or using the last release of the drivers.
nVidia
CCminer is coded in CUDA, it's a technology property of nVidia so AMD cards are not compatible with miners coded in CUDA but these miners are well optimized for nVidia cards. CCminer was forked and optimized for different hardware so we suggest you to test each ccminer fork with your drivers and mining hardware:
https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases
https://github.com/KlausT/ccminer/releases
https://github.com/alexis78/ccminer
Here is the list of algorithms compatible with tpruvot's ccminer:
Some AMD miner are compatible with nVidia cards but you may have less hashrate. Here is another miner optimized for nVidia cards only for HSR and Neoscrypt algorithms (it contains a 1% dev fee):
https://github.com/palginpav/hsrminer
nVidia drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
Overclocking and fine tuning
We were able to change GPU memory and core clocks and TDP (thermal envelope) using MSI Afterburner on all GPU cards whatever the constructor/vendor is. It is possible to set these settings automatically at Windows Startup:
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner
AMD (& nVidia)
Some AMD miners can work on nVidia cards because they are coded in OpenCL that's compatible with both AMD/ATI and nVidia. As nVidia developped CUDA optimized for nVidia, in most cases, miners coded in CUDA (nVidia only, see here above) will giv higher hashrate and better performances than miners coded for AMD. Anyway, you can give a try with most of these miners with both AMD and nVidia.
https://github.com/tpruvot/sgminer/releases
Many different algorithms
https://github.com/zawawawa/gatelessgate/releases
Optimised for Neoscrypt, ...
https://github.com/ghostlander/nsgminer/releases
Many different algorithms
https://github.com/semtexzv/Prospector/releases
Algo: tribus, ...
https://github.com/t0mpr1c3/sph-sgminer
ASIC/FPGA
UniMining don't have ASIC's nor FPGA's but some miners use this kind of hardware dedicated to some algorithms. The ROI of this mining equipments is high at the beginning (and for the firsts batches of sale of new equipment with higher technology) but it will drop quicker than GPU over time for several reasons: GPU can mine more algorithms than ASIC/FPGA so they will be profitable on new algos that ASIC/FPGA cannot mine.
Most of ASIC/FPGA includes a miner that can be easily configured to mine a a mining pool but if you need (or want to test) another miner application, here are some well known:
https://github.com/bitmaintech/cgminer
https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355 (GPU are also supported)
Some of the sgminer forks here above are also compatible with ASIC.
Virtual memory should be set to 16 GB and graphic cards drivers should be updated according to the miner application's recommations or using the last release of the drivers.
nVidia
CCminer is coded in CUDA, it's a technology property of nVidia so AMD cards are not compatible with miners coded in CUDA but these miners are well optimized for nVidia cards. CCminer was forked and optimized for different hardware so we suggest you to test each ccminer fork with your drivers and mining hardware:
https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases
https://github.com/KlausT/ccminer/releases
https://github.com/alexis78/ccminer
Here is the list of algorithms compatible with tpruvot's ccminer:
Alternatives to CCminerbastion Hefty bastion
bitcore Timetravel-10
blake Blake 256 (SFR)
blake2s Blake2-S 256 (NEVA)
blakecoin Fast Blake 256 (8 rounds)
bmw BMW 256
cryptolight AEON cryptonight (MEM/2)
cryptonight XMR cryptonight
c11/flax X11 variant
decred Decred Blake256
deep Deepcoin
equihash Zcash Equihash
dmd-gr Diamond-Groestl
fresh Freshcoin (shavite 80)
fugue256 Fuguecoin
groestl Groestlcoin
heavy Heavycoin
hmq1725 Doubloons / Espers
jackpot JHA v8
keccak Deprecated Keccak-256
keccakc Keccak-256 (CreativeCoin)
lbry LBRY Credits (Sha/Ripemd)
luffa Joincoin
lyra2 CryptoCoin
lyra2v2 VertCoin
lyra2z ZeroCoin (3rd impl)
mjollnir Mjollnircoin
myr-gr Myriad-Groestl
neoscrypt FeatherCoin, Phoenix, UFO...
nist5 NIST5 (TalkCoin)
penta Pentablake hash (5x Blake 512)
phi BHCoin
polytimos Politimos
quark Quark
qubit Qubit
sha256d SHA256d (bitcoin)
sha256t SHA256 x3
sia SIA (Blake2B)
sib Sibcoin (X11+Streebog)
scrypt Scrypt
scrypt-jane Scrypt-jane Chacha
skein Skein SHA2 (Skeincoin)
skein2 Double Skein (Woodcoin)
skunk Skein Cube Fugue Streebog
s3 S3 (1Coin)
timetravel Machinecoin permuted x8
tribus Denarius
vanilla Blake256-8 (VNL)
veltor Thorsriddle streebog
whirlcoin Old Whirlcoin (Whirlpool algo)
whirlpool Whirlpool algo
x11evo Permuted x11 (Revolver)
x11 X11 (DarkCoin)
x13 X13 (MaruCoin)
x14 X14
x15 X15
x17 X17
wildkeccak Boolberry
zr5 ZR5 (ZiftrCoin)
Some AMD miner are compatible with nVidia cards but you may have less hashrate. Here is another miner optimized for nVidia cards only for HSR and Neoscrypt algorithms (it contains a 1% dev fee):
https://github.com/palginpav/hsrminer
nVidia drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
Overclocking and fine tuning
We were able to change GPU memory and core clocks and TDP (thermal envelope) using MSI Afterburner on all GPU cards whatever the constructor/vendor is. It is possible to set these settings automatically at Windows Startup:
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner
AMD (& nVidia)
Some AMD miners can work on nVidia cards because they are coded in OpenCL that's compatible with both AMD/ATI and nVidia. As nVidia developped CUDA optimized for nVidia, in most cases, miners coded in CUDA (nVidia only, see here above) will giv higher hashrate and better performances than miners coded for AMD. Anyway, you can give a try with most of these miners with both AMD and nVidia.
https://github.com/tpruvot/sgminer/releases
Many different algorithms
https://github.com/zawawawa/gatelessgate/releases
Optimised for Neoscrypt, ...
https://github.com/ghostlander/nsgminer/releases
Many different algorithms
https://github.com/semtexzv/Prospector/releases
Algo: tribus, ...
https://github.com/t0mpr1c3/sph-sgminer
ASIC/FPGA
UniMining don't have ASIC's nor FPGA's but some miners use this kind of hardware dedicated to some algorithms. The ROI of this mining equipments is high at the beginning (and for the firsts batches of sale of new equipment with higher technology) but it will drop quicker than GPU over time for several reasons: GPU can mine more algorithms than ASIC/FPGA so they will be profitable on new algos that ASIC/FPGA cannot mine.
Most of ASIC/FPGA includes a miner that can be easily configured to mine a a mining pool but if you need (or want to test) another miner application, here are some well known:
https://github.com/bitmaintech/cgminer
https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355 (GPU are also supported)
Some of the sgminer forks here above are also compatible with ASIC.