Bitmain with Two New 7nm ASic Miners – Antminer S15 and T15

9 Nov
2018

Bitmain has announced its next-generation 7nm miners – Antminer S15 and Antminer T15 and is already taking orders for the new devices with estimated shipping time for the second half of December. Both new Bitcoin ASIC miners have two different operating modes – a high-performance one for maximum hashrate and an energy saving mode that offers better energy efficiency with lower power usage and reduced hashrate. Antminer S15 is available for $1475 USD with a limit of 2 miner per user and Antminer T15 for $913 USD with a limit of 50 miners per user. The new miners do come with a built-in power supply included in the price, but be aware that apparently this PSU is only for 220V input power and also the output voltage is not the standard 12 used previously, so finding an alternative power supply may turn out to be a bit of a challenge.

The Antminer S15 high-performance mode can achieve a hash rate of 28 TH/s with a power efficiency as low as 57 J/TH (1596W); its energy-saving mode can improve power efficiency to 50 J/TH while maintaining a hash rate of 17 TH/s (850W). The Antminer T15 high-performance mode sees a hash rate of 23 TH/s and a power efficiency as low as 67 J/TH (1541W). Its energy-saving mode can improve power efficiency to 60 J/TH while maintaining a hash rate of 20 TH/s (1200W). The new Anminer ASIC miners come with a new high conversion power supply APW8 that has a non-standard 16-18V high-voltage output, so they can effectively reduce the power loss during the power conversion process, helping mining farms save on electricity costs, or so Bitmain claims as a reason to include the new power supply module as a part of the miner. The only problem is that the new power supplies are not designed to operate on 110V power grids and that can present a challenge for some regions that do operate on these.

– For more information about the new Antminer S15 Bitcoin ASIC miners…
– For more information about the new Antminer T15 Bitcoin ASIC miners…

CryptoDredge 0.9.6 Nvidia Miner With Support for the X22i Algorithm

5 Nov
2018

The latest CryptoDredge Nvidia GPU miner version 0.9.6 for both Linux and Windows has introduced support for the new X22i algorithm used by the SUQA project that we’ve been following recently and CryptoDredge takes the top spot performance wise as it is a bit faster than what the T-Rex 0.7.2 miner offers. So if you are mining SUQA using the X22i algorithm on Nvidia GPUS, then definitely switch from T-Rex to CryptoDredge to get the best hashrate currently available. If you have missed the previous update 0.9.5 from a few days ago, it has added support for X17 and BitCore as well as some fixes for Exosis algorithm and a couple of bugs. Do note that the CryptoDredge miner supports only Nvidia GPUs and is a closed source software that comes with 1% built-in developer fee and with binaries available for both Windows and Linux (CUDA 9.1/9.2/10.0).

– To download and try the latest release of the CryptoDredge 0.9.6 Nvidia GPU miner…

New z-enemy 1.23 Miner With Performance Optimizations for RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti

3 Nov
2018

The new version of the z-enemy 1.23 Nvidia GPU miner comes with the first wave of optimizations for the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti GPUs and CUDA 10 that can provide up to 10-20% extra performance in various algorithms such as x16, x17, c11, hex, bitcore, xevan and others. There are also some minor performance optimizations as well for the GTX 10×0 series of GPUs, so some extra hashrate even if you do not own the new RTX generation yet. Do note that the CUDA 10 version should perform faster in most algorithms, even on older GPUs, but you need to make sure your mining rigs are with updated video drivers, the minimum required version is 415 or newer.

The latest z-enemy version 1.23 is available for CUDA 9.1, 9.2 and 10.0 for 64-bit Windows versions as well as CUDA 9.0, CUDA 9.1, CUDA 9.2 and CUDA 10 binaries for Linux (HiveOS, PiMP OS, EthOS & Ubuntu). We remind you that z-enemy is a closed source miner available only as a binary release and it contains a 1% developer fee built-in to support further software development.

Windows Downloads:
– Download z-enemy 1.23 Windows CUDA 9.1 64-bit
– Download z-enemy 1.23 Windows CUDA 9.2 64-bit
– Download z-enemy 1.23 Windows CUDA 10.0 64-bit

Linux Download (HiveOS, PiMP OS, EthOS & Ubuntu):
– Download z-enemy 1.23 Linux CUDA 9.0
– Download z-enemy 1.23 Linux CUDA 9.1
– Download z-enemy 1.23 Linux CUDA 9.2
– Download z-enemy 1.23 Linux CUDA 10.0

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