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There is now a new sgminer 5.0 beta (source) available that is trying to provide an unified and feature-full GPU miner by integrating the kernels from the sph-sgminer, the SHA3 (keccak) from cgminer as well as the modified x11 and x13 kernels from lasybear’s fork of sgminer. The most important feature, apart form the wider crypto algorithms support in the new version is the support for runtime-kernel-switching on the fly. Simply said you are able to have multiple pools set in your config and these pools can be for different algorithm coins and with different GPU settings for each. So a single GPU mining rig can mine for different coins using different algorithms, or have these pools as failover etc. No need to use a different miner for different pools and for different coins anymore, or at least almost as not yet all algorithms are supported.
Currently the new sgminer 5.0 beta does have support for the following kernels: Scrypt, Scrypt-N, X11 (darkcoin-mod), X13 (marucoin-mod), SHA3-Keccak (maxcoin), animecoin, fuguecoin, groestlcoin, inkcoin, myriadcoin-groestl, quarkcoin, qubitcoin, sifcoin and twecoin. Do note that sgminer is still an OpenCL miner suitable for mining on AMD-based GPUs, for Nvidia CUDA support you will still have to rely on either CudaMiner or ccMiner, depending on the algorithm of the coin you are mining if it is supported. You can also run Nvidia GPUs with OpenCL on the sgminer, however the performance you will get this way will simply not be worth it as compared to what a dedicated CUDA-based miner might offer. The pool specific settings you can currently set on per pool basis in the sgminer.conf file are the following: pool-algorithm, pool-nfactor, pool-intensity, pool-xintensity, pool-rawintensity, pool-gpu-engine, pool-gpu-memclock, pool-gpu-threads, pool-thread-concurrency, pool-gpu-fan.
We have compiled a windows binary for the new sgminer 5.0 beta and you can download and try it yourself. Do note however that this is a beta software and still needs some more work in order to work stable and without problems. While we were testing it we had the miner crashing multiple times while building the binary of the OpenCL kernel, we have noticed that if you have more than 3 pools setup in the config it happens all the time, with 3 or less it builds the kernels just fine and after that it seem to work stable with more pools added. This happens regardless if the pools are using the same algorithm or are configured to use different algorithms, so good for testing, but do not be in a hurry to replace all of your other miners just yet.
– You can download and try the new sgminer 5.0 beta for GPU Mining on Windows OS here…
Below you can find a list of the more common crypto algorithms with some example coins that use them along with a link to windows binary for a miner for the respective algorithm. This way you can quickly get to the GPU miner for AMD or Nvidia GPUs that you would need to use for a specific crypto algorithms, especially if you have not yet mined a coin based on that algorithm. There are of course some more coins that use other specific algorithms and may not be mineable with the GPU miners listed below.
Scrypt – LiteCoin (LTC), DogeCoin (DOGE), FeatherCoin (FTC), WorldCoin (WDC), Reddcoin (RDD)
– sgminer 4.2.1 for AMD OpenCL
– bfgminer 4.0.0 for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 kalroth for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA
Scrypt Adaptive-N – Vertcoin (VTC), ExeCoin (EXE), GPUcoin (GPUC), ParallaxCoin (PLX), SiliconValleyCoin (XSV)
– vertminer 0.5.4pre3 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA
Scrypt-Jane (Scrypt-Chacha) – YaCoin (YAC), Ultracoin (UTC), Velocitycoin (VEL)
– yacminer 3.4.2-yac2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA
SHA-256 – Bitcoin (BTC), NameCoin (NMC), Devcoin (DVC), IxCoin (IXC)
– sgminer 4.2.1 for AMD OpenCL
– bfgminer 4.0.0 for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 kalroth for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.2 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA
SHA-3 (Keccak) – MaxCoin (MAX), Slothcoin (SLOTH), Cryptometh (METH)
– cgminer 3.7.3 with Keccak for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner 2014-02-28 for Nvidia CUDA
X11 – DarkCoin (DRK), Hirocoin (HIRO), X11coin (XC)
– sph-sgminer X11mod for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA
X13 – MaruCoin (MARU), BoostCoin (BOST), X13Coin (X13C)
– sph-sgminer X13mod for AMD OpenCL
Blake-256 – BlakeBitcoin, Blakecoin (BLC), Dirac (XDQ), Electron (ELT), Photon (PHO)
– cgminer 3.7.2 with Blake-256 for AMD OpenCL
– CudaMiner with Blake-256 for Nvidia CUDA
Quark – Animecoin (ANI), BitQuark (BTQ), Diamondcoin (DMC)
– sph-sgminer 4.1.0 for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA
HEFTY1 – Heavycoin (HVC), Mjollnircoin (MNR)
– cgminer 3.7.3 HVC for AMD OpenCL
– cgminer 3.7.3 MNR for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA
For other crypto algorithms:
– sph-sgminer 4.1.0 for AMD OpenCL
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA
– ccMiner 1.0 beta for Nvidia CUDA for older Compute 2.x cards
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The fork of sph-sgminer from lasybear released a few days ago has received an update with support for mining X13 crypto coins such as MaruCoin. The update for X13 support follows the idea of the previous optimization of the kernel for X11 and also brings improved performance. Do note that there is no need to download this update if you are mining X11 as it will not bring further performance increase to X11 mining, the optimizations in this build are only for X13 coins.
With the official sph-sgminer we were getting around 1.5 MHS mining MaruCoin (X13 coin) and with the windows binary we have compiled (source here) we are able to get up to about 2.65 MHS on a Radeon R9 280X GPU as you can see on the screenshot. Just edit the included config file that is already setup for X13 mining and you are ready to mine X13 coins with a nice performance boost. Do note that currently X13 is GPU mineable only with AMD graphic processors, there is still no miner available for use on Nvidia GPUs.
The Windows binary has been updated to the latest source that includes a fix for for older AMD Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx series cards. For these cards you need to use “kernel” : “x13modold” in config file or -k x13modold from the command line. For newer cards such as Radeon HD 7xxx or the R7/R9 series you need to use the standard x13mod kernel.
– To download the new sph-sgminer_x13mod with performance increase for X13 crypto mining…