lolMiner 1.05

#lolMiner 1.05

Changes (from 1.04)

• Improved performance of Beam Hash III for all supported 4G and higher cards by 4-8% depending on model
• Added highly experimental support (untested) for Beam Hash III on blockchain drivers for Polaris 10, Fiji and Hawaii GPUs
• Added highly experimental support (untested) for Beam Hash III on Kepler (SM 3.2 and higher) GPUs, Requires CUDA 9+.
• Windows: Added more search locations for NVML library
• Fixed bug: Mining Cuckarood-29 not starting up
• Fixed bug: Mining on Nvidia GPUs crashed after few seconds when NVML library was not found
• Fixed bug: Mining Beam Hash III on some 8G cards did not start up (tried to allocate more memory in one buffered then allowed on some OS)

Performance hints:

• For Beam Hash III try to use custom clock / memory / voltage settings and ETH memory straps to achieve way better then stock performance and efficiency.

lolMiner 1.04

lolMiner 1.04

Changes over 1.03

• Slightly improved performance (2-5%) on all AMD cards on Beam Hash III, most significant (about 7%) on Navi GPUs
• Fixed a bug that caused linux build to load 3G solver on a 4G GPU on some distributions & driver although enough space was available.
• Some small internal fixes

Expected performance (Beam Hash III):

• Radeon VII: 46 sol/s
• V64: 32 sol/s
• 5700: 24 sol/s
• 580: 15 sol/s

lolMiner 1.03

lolMiner 1.03

Changes (from lolMiner 1.03)

• New Beam Hash III 4G solver, replaces the 6G solver on AMD Vega GPUs and earlier (+5 - 8% performance on RX 580 & Vega GPUs)
• New Beam Hash III 6G solver on ROCm and for AMD Navi GPUs (+8-10% performance on Navi cards)
• Fixed a bug with the API (--apiport) crashing in Windows

Expected Performance (Beam Hash III, stock)

• Radeon VII: 43 sol/s
• Vega 64: 28 sol/s
• Vega 56: 23 sol/s
• RX 5700: 23.5 sol/s
• RX 580 (4G & 8G): 14.75 sol/s
• RX 560: 7 sol/s
• RX 550: 3.5 sol/s

lolMiner 1.02

lolMiner 1.02

Changes (from lolMiner 1.01)

• Disabled Beam Hash III auto switcher. --coin BEAM now pointing to --algo BEAM-III - this should resolve some config problems
• Fixed a bug that made the miner not starting BEAM-III on RX 550 4G GPUs
• Fixed a bug that made the miner not start mining Cortex
• Fixed a bug with Beam Hash I 3G solver (miners did not find it)
• Fixed a bug not writing a log file when --log on was given
• Fixed a bug with parameter --digits (was missing in 1.0 and 1.01)
• Re-Enabled parameter --port, but with a big red deprecation warning. Will resolve some 1.0 config problems

lolMiner 1.01

lolMiner 1.01

Changes (from lolMiner 1.0)

• Improved performance of Beam Hash III on all 6G+ cards (by about 4-5%)
• Added 3G* / 4G solver for Beam Hash III
  (* will not work in Windows 10 and some older AMD cards)
• Fixed an issue with mining Beam Hash III to NiceHash
• --tls now allowed to be used multiple times to configure it for each pool separately
• If found the miner will now load the user_config.json file per default again (fixes issues with minerstat)
• Fixed temperature and power monitoring for VII and Navi on Windows 10 (Fan speed may still be broken ... work in progress)

Expected Performance (Beam Hash III, 3/4G solver)

RX 560 4G: 5 sol/s
RX 580 4G: 11.5 sol/s
GTX 1060 3G: 7.75 sol/s

lolMiner 1.0

lolMiner 1.0

Changes (from lolMiner 0.98)

• lolMiner got a restructure how to configure it and also features a 2nd, more simple config file format.
  Use lolMiner -h to get a list of new supported parameters or visit the new online manual
• Added optimizes solvers for Beam Hash III for AMD & Nvidia cards. Use --coin BEAM to auto switch from BeamHash II to BeamHash III on fork (approx June 28th, requires 8G card) or select Beam Hash III solver manually with --algo BEAM-III (requires 6G card)
• Added performance improved (+ >10%) GRIN-C29M solver for 8G GPUs
• Added Cuckaroo-30 solver to mine Cortex Ai (--coin CTXC or --algo C30CTX) for all 8G and higher GPUs
• Added support for non-integer difficulty on Grin
• Reactivated support for Beam Hash I including support for personalization strings.
• AMD Navi does now work on all supported algorithms
• Removed Grin Auto-Switcher (C31 is obsolete now and the switcher would not work on next Grin fork)
• Removed support for MNX (Minex Coin project is dead / abandoned by developers)
• Added temperature, consumption and fan speed readings in API and long statistics
• Internal bug fixes

Expected performance (Beam Hash III)

AMD:

• Radeon VII: 37.5 sol/s
• Vega 64 21.5 sol/s
• Vega 56 18.0 sol/s
• RX 5700 20.5 sol/s
• RX 5600 13 sol/s
• RX 580 12.5 sol/s

Nvidia:

• RTX 2080 22 sol/s
• RTX 2060 17 sol/s
• GTX 1070 13 sol/s
• GTX 1060 6G 8 sol/s

Expected performance (GRIN-C29M)

• Radeon VII: 8.05 g/s
• Vega 64 5.8 g/s
• Vega 56 5.0 g/s
• RX 5700 4.2 g/s
• RX 580 2.95 g/s

Expected performance (Cortex)

• Radeon VII: 3.05 g/s (0.073 h/s)
• Vega 64 2.2 g/s (0.053 h/s)
• Vega 56 2.0 g/s (0.048 h/s)
• RX 5700 1.85 g/s (0.044 h/s)
• RX 580 1.25 g/s (0.030 h/s)

lolMiner 0.9.8

lolMiner 0.9.8

Changes (from 0.9.7)

• Improved GRIN-C29M solver, Better performance (+7-12% depending on card) and smaller memory use (fits 6G now)
• Added support for Radeon 5500 (XT) and 5600 (XT) on all Grin algorithms
• Added BEAM support for Radeon 5500, 5600 and 5700 series (Needing 19.30 and newer driver)
• Fixed driver incompatibilities with some newer driver versions (e.g. Linux 19.50)
• Renamed GRIN-AD29 to MWC-C29D to mine cuckarood-29
• Added a small penalty to C32 in auto switcher - it seems the solver has not perfect fidelity and the penalty will make it switch a bit later to cover this. Will hopefully be fixed in next version
• Removed 14 cycle fidelity from overview - new C29M solver does not output it properly.

Changes (from 0.9.8 to 0.9.8.1 (Linux only))

• Fixed a bug with Vega GPUs trying to read wrong kernels in Grin auto switcher

lolMiner 0.9.7

lolMiner 0.9.7

Changes (From 0.9.6.1)

• Windows: Increased GRIN-C32 performance on Navi cards by 15-18%
• Linux: Increased GRIN-C32 performance on Vega, VII & Navi cards by 15-18%
• Added a Grin Auto profit switcher (use: --coin GRIN-AUTO + further options). Please read https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/wiki/Grin-Automatic-Profit-Switching carefully how to use it and which pools are supported.

Expected Performance (Grin C32)

Testrig runs mmpOS (Linux) + amdgpu-pro 19.30, stock settings

Card	Windows	Linux
Radeon VII	0.65 g/s	0.77 g/s
Vega 64	0.42 g/s	0.49 g/s
Vega 56:	0.36 g/s	0.42 g/s
RX 5700:	0.4 g/s	0.4 g/s

lolMiner 0.9.6

lolMiner 0.9.6

Changes (0.9.6 to 0.9.6.1)

• Fixed a bug loading wrong kernel on Polaris / Vega cards for C31
  (Note: On Linux only Polaris cards were affected)

Changes (from 0.9.5)

• Significant improvement on GRIN-C29M performance (+6-7% on 580 and Vega cards, +10% on Navi)
• Significant improvement on GRIN-C31 and GRIN-C32 solver (~ +6% on all AMD cards)
• Added a 16G GRIN-C32 solver (Approx 20% faster on Radeon VII, Vega FE and 570 16G)

Note

Due to the lack of users I was forced to increase the fee on all Grin codes to 2%. This is a step back to the fee model I had before 0.7, i.e. I am taking 2% until the code payed off its development and lower it afterwards. This is kind of my last resort to keep the development of Grin codes for AMD alive.

Expected performances

GRIN-C29M (stock clocks, tested using amdgpu-pro 19.30)

• Radeon VII: 6.4 g/s
• Vega 64: 4.6 g/s
• Vega 56: 4.1 g/s
• RX 5700: 4.4 g/s
• RX 580 (8 G): 2.6 g/s
• RX 570 (8 G): 2.4 g/s

GRIN-C31 (stock clocks, tested using amdgpu-pro 19.30)

Note: Windows speeds on V56 / V64 / VII are ~7% lower due to a driver issue that prevents to use all optimizations

• Radeon VII: 2.05 g/s
• Vega 64: 1.37 g/s
• Vega 56: 1.15 g/s
• RX 5700: 1.12 g/s
• RX 570: 0.67 g/s

GRIN-C32 (stock clocks, tested using amdgpu-pro 19.30)

• Radeon VII: 0.66 g/s
• Vega FE: 0.5 g/s
• Vega 64: 0.42 g/s
• Vega 56: 0.36 g/s
• RX 5700: 0.34 g/s
• RX 570 (8 G): 0.23 g/s
• RX 570 (8 G): 0.18 g/s

lolMiner 0.9.5.1

lolMiner 0.9.5.1

Change to 0.9.5.1 (Hotfix)

• Fixed a potential crash issue in grin straum

Changes (From 0.9.3 (Win) / 0.9.4 (Linux))

• Added support for Grin CuckarooM-29 (hard fork on Jan 16th) on 8G AMD GPUs, use --coin GRIN-C29M to mine with it.
  Hint: The miner will pause until the fork height is reached not to waste energy. Use --coin FLOO-C29M to test the miner in floonet testnet before if you like.
• Improved C31 performance on 8G cards by ~5% (Windows: relatively to 0.9.3, Linux: relatively to 0.9.4)
• Navi on Windows now runs same kernels as in Linux
• Slightly lowered energy use of C31 / C32 solver
• Added aliases GRIN-C31 and GRIN-C32 for the Cuckatoo solvers (the old names still exist and continue to work)
• Driver requirement for all GRIN codes: 18.50 for all pre-Navi cards, 19.30 for Navi (Linux); Adrenaline 18.12 for all pre-Navi, Adrenaline 19.10 for Navi

Further news:

Added wiki article about C31 fade out and when changing to C32 makes sense:
https://github.com/Lolliedieb/lolMiner-releases/wiki/All-you-need-to-know-about-Grin-difficulty,-C29,-C31-fade-out-and-C32

Expected performance

GRIN-C29M (stock clocks, tested using amdgpu-pro 19.30)

Note: Windows speeds may differ slightly (max 3-4%)

• Radeon VII: 6.1 g/s
• Vega 64: 4.4 g/s
• Vega 56: 3.7 g/s
• RX 5700: 4.0 g/s
• RX 570: 2.2 g/s

GRIN-C31 (stock clocks, tested using amdgpu-pro 19.30)

Note: Windows speeds on V56 / V64 / VII are ~7% lower due to a driver issue that prevents to use all optimizations
Note #2: ROCm speeds often 5% quicker then in this table when available

• Radeon VII: 1.9 g/s
• Vega 64: 1.3 g/s
• Vega 56: 1.07 g/s
• RX 5700: 1.07 g/s
• RX 570: 0.63 g/s

GRIN-C32 (stock clocks, tested using amdgpu-pro 19.30)

• Radeon VII: 0.5 g/s
• Vega 64: 0.4 g/s
• Vega 56: 0.32 g/s
• RX 5700: 0.31 g/s
• RX 570: 0.17 g/s