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CPU vs AMD and Nvidia GPU Mining for Yescrypt Coins
13, May 2015
Earlier this month GPU miners for Yescrypt getting released for AMD and Nvidia GPUs were released thanks to the work of djm34. These miners however still seem to be slower in terms of performance when compared to CPU mining for Yescrypt, so we’ve decided to give a quick test on what some up to date CPU and GPU hardware is capable of in terms of performance. There are two coins that rely on Yescrypt at the moment, these are GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY) and Unitus (UIS), though UIS is a multi-algorithm altcoin. Below you can download the CPU miner for mining Yescrypt that we’ve used for the tests and as for the GPU miners, we have already published them here on the website – the djm34 fork of ccMiner and sgminer with Yescrypt support as well as the latest ccMiner fork from SP.
Performance results for Yescrypt:
– Intel Core i7 5820K CPU: 5.22 KHS
– AMD Radeon R9 280X GPU: 0.793 KHS
– Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 GPU: 1.124 KHS
– To download the cpuminer fork with best performance for CPU mining Yescrypt on Windows OS…
We are closely watching the Coin Magi (XMG) development as for the moment it is still pretty much the most actively developed alternative crypto currency that continues to be mineable with CPU only and there is no GPU miner for it available. The developers just recently announced the release of MagiPay, a Standalone Payment Gateway for Coin Magi. The ongoing development as well as the wide accessibility due to CPU mining is important as it allows pretty much anyone to be able to mine XMG on his own computer, though based on the processor used the results in terms of performance can vary. Still the ability to mine the coin on every computer and the fact that you can still mine it even though the current reward per block is lower (variable between 0.0001 mining fee and 50 XMG) that it was initially is what makes the coin attractive to a wider audience. Also the fact that the Coin Magi is traded on some big altcoin exchanges such as Bittrex and it has a pretty stable exchange rate does help to keep the users interest in the coin. There are currently five pools where you can mine XMG directly and a multipool where you can get paid in XMG.
To test what hashrate we are going to be getting on a modern high-end CPU we have tested the highest performing CPU miner available for mining XMG from Wolf0 on an Intel Core i7 5820K processor running with 12 threads on this 6-core CPU with Hyper Threading support. We have tested all the various optimized binaries of the miner on that processor to see what results we are going to get with each one and which one hash the highest performance, you can see the results below and you can also download the miner to try out on your processor from the link below.
Hashrate on Intel Core i7 5820K:
minerd-x64-athlonfx.exe – 115.68 KHS
minerd-x64-avx.exe – 116.98 KHS
minerd-x64-avx2.exe – 116.10 KHS
minerd-x64-avx-i.exe – 117.48 KHS
minerd-x64-bdver2.exe – crash
minerd-x64-btver2.exe – 117.72 KHS
minerd-x64-core2.exe – 116.92 KHS
minerd-x64-corei7.exe – 117.65 KHS
minerd-x64-generic.exe – 117.79 KHS
minerd-x64-haswell.exe – 116.26 KHS
minerd-x64-ivybridge.exe – 117.68 KHS
minerd-x64-nocona.exe – 116.31 KHS
minerd-x64-sandybridge.exe – 117.63 KHS
minerd-x64-SSE2.exe – 117.53 KHS
minerd-x64-westmere.exe – 117.70 KHS
Interestingly enough the difference in terms of performance between the lowest performing and the highest hashrate version is in the range of just about 2 KHS which is not that much. Another interesting find is that apparently the generic version of the miner does manage to get the best results on the 5820K CPU (Haswell-E) processor.
– To download the Coin Magi (XMG) wolf m7m v2 cpuminer compiled for 64-bit Windows OS…
While we are on the topic of CPU mining crypto coins, after going though the currently available alternative crypto coins that are still mineable only with CPU there is pretty much only one that stands from the crowd and that is Coin Magi (XMG). Sure, there are a few more coins that are still CPU only, but their developers are not very active, nothing much is happening there and the community around the coins is pretty much disappearing. With Coin Magi however it is quite the opposite, active developers and large community supporting the coin and mining it even though XMG is already entered its POW-II stage with the reward per block in between 3 and 50 XMG unlike the first 50K blocks (POW I stage) when it was between 5 and 300 XMG. Do note that Coin Magi is also a POS coin, though it uses a so called POS-II algorithm that makes it a bit more complex for the calculation of the interest rate of staked coins.
Since we mentioned complex, this seems to be one of the issues that XMG is facing and one of the main problems that are hurting the coin – there is so much information and things happening about the coin all of the time that it is hard to keep a track on all things for a lot of users. You need to be following closely the development of Coin Magi all of the time and be a bit more advanced crypto currency user to be up to date with everything and a lot of the users are in fact not doing that. The team behind XMG needs to summarize all of the important information about the features and development of the Coin Magi in a brief and user friendly way and instead of pushing too much information to users that don’t know what to do with it ti present them with the important details in short. Anybody that is advanced user or wants to dig up into details can start researching things deeper, but for the people that don’t there is no need to dig deeper than they should just to get the basics of the coin as it is in the moment. This by the way is not a problem that only XMG has, many other alternative crypto coins suffer from a similar problem – ether lack of enough information or with too many details that make it hard to grasp the basics.
One of the latest things happening around the XMG is the launch of their Coin Magi payment gateway called MagiPay, designed for merchants that are interested in accepting the crypto coin as a form of payment. Unfortunately another example of too much and unclear information as we cannot really get if the gateway is already launched and working, there is a website available that seems to be operational, or it will be launched on March 6th. If they start managing things better and actually make it easy for the users the coin can continue to grow as it already has a big community, both mining and trading, is traded on some of the larger altcoin exchanges and has a relatively stable exchange rate. So if you haven’t heard of Coin Magi (XMG), then you might want to take a look at it as there are other interesting new features planned for the future.
– For more information about the Coin Magi (XMG) CPU only crypto altcoin…
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