Updated Ethminer 0.9.41 Nvidia CUDA Version for Windows

7 Sep
2015

ethminer-0-9-41-cuda-new

Genoil, the developer of the Ethminer fork with Nvidia CUDA support (source) has been actively working and there have been some other people contributing code, so we have compiled an up to date Windows binary of ethminer with CUDA support. Do note that this Windows binary release is compiled with VS2013 for Windows 64-bit and is for CUDA 6.5 as previous versions were compiled for CUDA 7.5, so there could be some performance differences between the different versions. The latest version comes with some optimizations that should increase a bit the performance when using the CUDA mode with the miner, however there are also some differences as you may need to manually specify the number of GPUs to use if you have multiple cards using the cuda-devices command line parameter if the miner fires only on one device. Additionally to get better performance you can try adding the following command line parameters to the ethminer:

For OpenCL: --cl-global-work 16384
For CUDA: --cuda-grid-size 8192 --cuda-block-size 128 --cuda-turbo

The Ethminer CUDA fork should work on Compute 2.0 or newer GPUs, but the performance on older GPUs can be worse, also don’t forget that you can run Ethminer in OpenCL mode as well on Nvidia-based video cards and not only on AMD if you are having trouble with the CUDA support or the hashrate you get is lower as compared to OpenCL.

– Download the updated Ethminer CUDA fork compiled for Windows and ready to be used…

Updated Windows Binary of the ccMiner 1.5.65-git Fork by SP for Maxwell

4 Sep
2015

ccminer-1-5-65-git-spmod

One more update in the form of a new Windows binary release compiled from the latest Git source code of the ccMiner 1.5.65-git SP-MOD fork by SP optimized for the latest Maxwell-based video cards (source). The latest version includes a lot of fixes and some hashrate improvements for lyra2v2, so if mining VertCoin (VTC) you might want to update to the latest release. Do note that the SP-MOD fork of ccMiner is designed for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs such as the already available GTX 750, 750 Ti as well as the newer GTX 960, GTX 970, GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti and GTX Titan X. The Windows binary release we have made available here is with support for Compute 5.0 and Compute 5.2 GPUs or with other words only for Maxwell-based cards compiled with CUDA 6.5 and VS2013.

– To download the latest ccMiner for Maxwell version 1.5.65-git by SP for Windows OS…

Updated cpuminer-multi 1.2-dev Windows Binary

4 Sep
2015

cpuminer-multi-1-2-dev-tpruvot

It has been a while since there has been an official release of the cpuminer-multi fork from tpruvot though he is working on his cpuminer-multi CPU miner with multiple algorithms support (source). This is the most functional fork of cpuminer that comes with support for the largest number of algorithms and a lot of optimizations for them to get the most performance out of your CPU. Do note however that some dedicated forks of cpuminer for a specific algorithm may still provide better performance, but if you want flexible solution with many algorithms supported then cpuminer-multi is the choice. We have compiled an up to date Windows binary from the latest source that comes with a lot of fixes and improvements regarding Lyra2RE and the new Lyra2REv2 algorithms as well as some other changes and extra functionality. If you have some spare CPU power that you want to use for mining then this is the miner you’ll need, do note that we have compiled our Windows binary with Visual Studio 2013 and for 64-bit Windows.

– To download the latest Windows binary of the cpuminer-multi fork with multiple algorithms support…

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