Posts Tagged ‘NiceHash Excavator’

NiceHash has Released 100% LHR Unlock for ETH Mining on Nvidia GPUs

7, May 2022

The latest NiceHash QuickMiner (Excavator) is the first mining software to fully unlock Nvidia’s LHR video cards for mining Ethereum (ETH). Do note that currenly all Nvidia RTX 30 series GPUs with v1 and v2 LHR should be supported and being unlocked to full hjashrate when mining Ethereum, but LHR v3 GPUs, namely RTX 3050 and RTX 3080 12GB are still not supported by the unlock. You need to download and use the QuickMiner v0.5.4.0 RC (release candidate) or newer in order to be able to take advantage of the full LHR unlock. NiceHash reccomends to use either 472.xx or the latest NVIDIA GPU drivers along with the miner for best results, older video drivers might cause issues with the unlock or proper functioning of the miner. Also have in mind that NiceHash QuickMiner only works on Windows and you can only use it on the NiceHash mining platform!

– To download and try the latest NiceHash QuickMiner v0.5.4.0 RC with Full LHR unlock…

Excavator Miner 1.2.10a With Performance Improvements

12, Jul 2017

We just gave a try of the latest NiceHash Excavator 1.2.10 alpha miner (source) that includes new algorithms and some performance improvements from NiceHash. It has been a while since we have played with it last, so there are some changes that we wanted to try out. Excavator supports both AMD and Nvidia GPUs and works with some of the more popular mining algorithms, though performance wise it may not be the fastest on all of them.

Nvidia CUDA supported algorithms: equihash, pascal, decred, sia, lbry, blake2s, daggerhashimoto
AMD OpenCL supported algorithms: daggerhashimoto, equihash, pascal, sia, decred

More notable is the performance improvement from the latest ethminer for Nvidia GTX 1060 and GTX 1070 GPUs that has also apparently been implemented in Excavator, so you might want to try that as well and see what results you are going to get if you are mining coins using the (Ethash) Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm such as Ethereum and others. Below you can find a 64-bit Windows binary that you can download and try will all of the supported algorithms, just modify the sample config files provided. Do note that Nvidia supports two more algorithms that have not yet been implemented on AMD GPUs!

– To download and try the latest Excavator 1.2.10a miner for 64-bit Windows…


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