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RandomX Mining On MacOS Using XMRig MacOS Build
16, Apr 2020
Apple’s MacOS computers aren’t really a popular choice as far as GPU mining is concerned, but for CPU mining they may still be usable… if you manage to find a miner with a MacOS binary build or if you manage to compile it yourself. So how about mining RandomX, a variation of the RandomX algorithm? You will quickly find out that neither of the popular RandomX CPU miners such as XMRig, SRBMiner-Multi and XMR-STAK-RX have a MacOS binary available and you may have some hard time compiling one yourself. Fortunately there is a solution available, at least for XMRig where a user has made a MacOS build of the latest XMRig 5.11.0 that may be exactly what you need if you have an Apple computer you ant to try CPU mining with.
– To download and try mining RandomX on using the latest XMRig 5.11.0 MacOS Build…
The expected hard fork of Monero (XMR) happened without issues and now the mining part is being done with CPUs (mostly) using the RandomX mining algorithm as opposed to CryptoNight R that was mostly GPU mined prior the fork. Currently the hashrate of the Monero network is around 500 MH/s with XMR drawing a lot of CPU mining resources from other crypto projects that were already unprofitable to mine anyway, so as a direct consequence some of these might become interesting for mining again with the focus on Monero. The big question at the moment is where all the GPU mining power that was focused on Monero will go now as these were mostly AMD mining GPUs, so most likely other CryptoNight-based projects will have to deal with the extra computing power. After checking a few of the more popular CryptoNight-based projects we don’t yet see big jumps in terms of hashrate after the fork of Monero, and that could easily mean that XMR already had a lot of “free” CPU mining going on even on the old CryptoNight R algorithm.
With the current network hashrate of about 500 MH/s the estimated daily coins you can mine with a single AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU that has about 6 KH/s of hashrate on stock settings is around 0.019 XMR at the moment or a bit over $1 USD if you exchange it for fiat at the current rate. This is better than we could get with the same CPU mining other RandomX coins yesterday. It is about double than mining LOKI yesterday, which was the most profitable one using the RandomXL algorithm, today however things also look different for LOKI as the mined equivalent is actually more profitable than Monero at $1.28 USD with the current difficulty after the outflow of hashrate to XMR. ArQmA (ARQ) is also up almost double in terms of mined equivalent in USD, and WoWnero doesn’t seem to be much affected in any way, remaining the least attractive of the RandomX crypto pack.
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With the upcoming Monero (XMR) hardfork to the RandomX algo in a day now, we are checking what is the current profitability of crypto coins that are already using the RandomX algorithm or a variant of it on a decent performing AMD CPU that offers great price/performance. For the tests we are using an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 processor that is 6 Core – 12 Threads with a base clock of 3.6 GHz and max boost clock of up to 4.2 GHz running at stock settings on a B450 motherboard with 8GB 3200 MHz DDR4 memory. The hashrates below are from the latest XMRig 5.0.1 and the algorithms tested are RandomARQ (RandomX variant for ArQmA), RandomWOW (RandomX variant for Wownero) and RandomXL (RandomX variant for Loki) and tomorrow we would be able to see profit results from Monero’s new RandomX algorithm after the fork as well…
XMRig 5.0.1 on Ryzen 3600 CPU:
– RandomARQ – 22600 H/s – 29.1963 ARQ – $0.28 USD daily profit
– RandomWOW – 5700 H/s – 91.1030 WOW – $0.28 USD daily profit
– RandomXL – 5900 H/s – 1.2837 LOKI – $0.53 USD daily profit
As you can see even though the performance in terms of H/s is quite good, the profitability of a single Ryzen 3600 CPU is far from great and when you consider that the power usage of a system with that processor is about 130-150W you get let us say 3.6 KW per day with cheap $0.1 USD per KW/h for the electricity that results in $0.36 electricity cost. The only coin and algorithm that is currently above the electricity cost is LOKI and you won’t actually be making much, just paying for the cost of the CPU can take quite some time and here we are all hoping that after the fork of Monero things will be looking better for miners with CPUs. Intel CPU owners might be mostly interested in ArQmA (ARQ) as the variation of the RandomX algorithm it uses performs much better on Intel compared to the version from LOKI or Wownero that are significantly faster on AMD Ryzen.
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- Related tags: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 RandomX, ArQmA profitability, CPU mining, CPU performance, LOKI profitability, RandomARQ, RandomWOW, RandomX, RandomX CPU mining, RandomX mining, RandomX profitability, RandomXL, Ryzen 5 3600 mining, Ryzen 5 3600 performance, Ryzen 5 3600 profitability, Wownero profitability, XMRig 5.0.1