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You can now mine GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY) with AMD-based video cards thanks to a new fork of sgminer 5.1.0 from djm34 that adds support for Yescrypt (source) and we have compiled a windows binary that will allow you to try it out. The windows binary is compiled for x86, so it should work on wider range of systems using 32-bit or 64-bit Windows. Do note that Yescrypt GPU mining is still in early stage, so it might be a bit buggy initially and further optimizations in performance should be possible as this is a preliminary work to port the algorithm to GPU support. The coin does seem to handle well high intensity, so you should start low with 9 for example, also lower worker size such as 16 and 512 threads could be a good start. We are seeing a performance of about 700 hashes per second on a non-overclocked AMD Radeon R9 280X GPU with the settings above, but you are welcome to experiment. Do note that there is still more to be desired from the GPU miner as it is not faster than mining Yescrypt with an up to date CPU, for example a single Intel Core i7 5820K CPU achieves around 5.1 KHS mining GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY).
Update: There is now a slightly faster yescrypt kernel available that allows you to get some extra speed, we got to almost 800 Hashes per second with it, you can download the updated version from the link below. Also the latest version includes yescrypt-multi algorithm for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs (Compute 5.0 or newer) that may provide faster performance than the ccMiner release according to the author, though in our case ccMiner was still faster.
– To download and try the sgminer 5.1.0 Yescrypt GPU miner for Windows OS…
Another small update to our Miner Control tool package for Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti GPUs to reflect some of the recent changes in the pools that the tool uses. This version does include Quark support for NiceHash as it seems to be the very profitable algorithm to mine at the moment at the two services according to their statistics. The Qubit and Quark algorithms often seem to be the most profitable ones to be mined on Nvidia GPUs, though there are temporary surges in other algorithms such as X11 or X13 from time to time that make them more profitable for a while with the launches of new altcoins. We have also included the latest version of ccMiner 1.5.47-git Fork by SP for Nvidia Maxwell GPUs such as the GTX 750 Ti, so that you can get optimum performance especially since there were quite a lot of Qubit and Quark optimizations lately.
To be ready to use the GeForce GTX 750 Ti package you just need to update the account settings for each pool to reflect your BTC payment address. Do note that the default configuration that we have set is mining from time to time for the author of the software (Miner Control) as a donation alternative, but you can change that setting should you wish to. The package is ready to be used with GTX 750 Ti card, but you can also us it for other Nvidia GPUs or more cards (the ccMiner fork included is for Computer 5.0 and 5.2 cards only) – what you may need to reflect however in the config file is the total hashrate and power usage.
– To download the Miner Control 1.6.4 Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti ready to use pack for Windows…
There are probably not much, if any, people out there mining for crypto coins on the latest and fastest Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan X GPUs, but that does not mean that the video cards based on them are not good for mining. The GTX Titan X does come with 12 GB of video memory, something that is not very useful for crypto mining, but it also comes with 50% more CUDA cores as compared to GTX 980. So you might expect to get up to about 50% performance in crease in terms of hashrate, but that performance increase may come up with twice or even more higher price compared to how much a single GTX 980 costs. So it seems that the GTX Titan X is not very price/performance efficient choice and it might be better to go for two GTX 980s instead not only for mining, but also for gaming as well.
Nevertheless we still ran some benchmarks to see what is the actual hashrate difference between a GTX 980 and a GTX Titan X GPU using the latest ccMiner 1.5.45 SP-MOD. Do note that the Titan X is still a Compute 5.2 GPU, just like the GTX 980, so it does not bring a new evolution in terms of compute capabilities – just more raw power. As you can see from the table with the results we are seeing in between 30% to almost 50% performance increase in the hashrate of the GTX Titan X GPU as compared to what the GTX 980 currently offers. As we have already mentioned the price difference compared to the actual performance you get makes the GTX 980 the better choice for mining, and you can go for two of these instead of a single Titian X.