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Disabling the HPET timer increases your computer's mining performance

hpet timer shutdown mining hashrate All modern computers are equipped with a high-precision timer called HPET (High Precision Event Timer), which is necessary to synchronize the operation of various equipment (sound cards, video card, processor) in multimedia tasks: video games, sound and video editors, audio and video players. The HPET timer is also known as the multimedia timer. By default, the HPET timer is enabled on all computers for compatibility, but in fact in modern computers it only increases delays in work, which affects the number of frames per second and their number for rare events in games, as well as in other resource-intensive applications, including in cryptocurrency mining.

The reason for the hashrate drop in mining on Nvidia Pascal video cards (GTX 1070, GTX 1080, GTX 1080 Ti)

gtx1070 tlb low hashrate Nvidia's Pascal generation video cards (GTX 1000) in 2016 became an excellent alternative to AMD video cards in mining, although until that moment, AMD products were practically the only option for mining in terms of their characteristics. However, by 2019, users who bought GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti video cards for mining Ethereum cryptocurrency began to notice a gradual decrease in the hash rate of their video cards with each increase in the DAG file of the Ethereum cryptocurrency. So, for example, the hashrate of the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 8Gb video card in 2017 when mining ETH was 30-32MH/s, and by 2022 this video card can hardly give its owner 25MH/s. For comparison, the AMD video card of those years, the Radeon RX 480, can still show 30Mh / s or more, as in 2016, and in terms of technical characteristics, the AMD video card is noticeably weaker than the GTX 1070. Because of what the hashrate decreases only for Nvidia video cards, we will tell later in this article.

The Nvidia LHR mining limiter is fully unlocked in the NBminer and T-REX miners. Video Card Tests

nvidia lhr 100% unlock Nvidia is known not only for producing the most powerful and popular graphics cards for mining, but also for mining hashrate limiting technology called LHR. LHR technology began to appear in graphics cards in May 2021 with the announcement of the Geforce RTX 3070 ti and RTX 3080 ti graphics cards. Throughout this year, all mining software developers fought for every percentage of Nvidia unlocking these artificial restrictions, eventually reaching a figure of 79%. All this time, miners with LHR cards felt cheated, because. for the same price, they received less hashrate in Ethereum mining. Until May 2022 hits, or until the next crypto market crash begins, or until video cards are sold at recommended prices (everyone can choose a more pleasant version for themselves). Because it is at this moment that a new version of NBMiner and T-REX is released, which completely remove the LHR block for mining the Ethereum cryptocurrency.

Video Card Thermal Pad Size Database

dimensions of thermal pads for nvidia gtx 1070 graphics card On the eve of summer, many miners face the same question of improving the cooling of equipment. Which can be solved in many ways, for example, by increasing the speed of the fans on video cards, which reduces their resource. You can turn on the additional air conditioning of the premises, which increases the cost of electricity. You can reduce the consumption of video cards, which will affect the hashrate and mining income, respectively. You can also carry out maintenance of your video cards with the replacement of thermal paste and thermal pads on memory and batteries. If there are usually no problems with replacing thermal paste on the GPU itself, then replacing gaskets with new or more efficient ones usually causes problems, because. it is not known what thickness and size of thermal pads you need to buy for a particular model of video card. Moreover, for each manufacturer of video cards, the sizes of gaskets can vary widely.

T-REX 0.25.12. Testing Nvidia RTX 3000 video cards with LHR in Ethereum mining

rtx 3080 lhr mining t-rex In the latest version of T-REX 0.25.12, the developers claim that they managed to unlock 78%-79% of the capabilities of Nvidia video cards with the LHR mining blocker. Let me remind you that we recently tested Lolminer 1.47, which has a maximum LHR unlock level of 78%. Accordingly, T-REX today should give the maximum hashrate for such video cards, which we will now check.

Whatsminer M50, M50S and M53 - the new generation of 5nm Bitcoin Asics from MicroBT

whatsminer m53 bitcoin asic

MicroBT in April 2022 announced a new generation of Whatsminer Asiс miners manufactured by modern technological standards of 5nm in Samsung factories. The new generation received a symbolic index M50 (missing the name of the M40) and has three models: Whatsminer M50, M50S and M53. Where M50 and M50S are traditional ASIC miners with air cooling, but M53 is a completely different device with water cooling, twice the power consumption and a housing for installation in server racks.

Lolminer has unlocked 78% of the capabilities of Nvidia LHR graphics cards. Video card tests.

mining rig nvidia rtx 3080 ti

In its 3000 series of video cards, Nvidia began releasing video cards with the prefix LHR, which in mining Ethereum cryptocurrency began to show twice lower hash rate than similar video cards, but without this blocking. Since Ethereum cryptocurrency is the most popular GPU mining cryptocurrency and at the same time the most profitable for mining, so all developers of specialized mining software began to look for ways to circumvent these artificial restrictions. As of April 2022, the best results in unlocking LHR were achieved by the developers of Lolminer miner. Starting with version 1.47 Lolminer managed to unlock up to 78% of the capabilities of such video cards.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 Ti hash rate video card on different mining algorithms

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Nvidia at the end of March 2022 released the most powerful gaming graphics card of RTX 3000 series - Geforce RTX 3090 Ti with recommended price of 2000 USD. The main advantage of RTX 3090 Ti over its predecessor RTX 3090 is faster GDDR6X memory with data transfer rate of 21Gbit/s instead of 19.5Gbit/s. This will primarily affect the new item's hashrate in Ethereum mining. In addition to the new memory Geforce RTX 3090Ti built on another GPU chip - GA102-350, which has 10752 Cuda cores, instead of 10496 Cuda cores in the conventional RTX 3090. How exactly all the innovations will affect the mining of cryptocurrencies we will try to find out in this article.

Intel to unveil first-generation SHA-256 Bonanza Mine ASIC Miner

bonanza mine asic hashrate Not so long ago we already discussed the news that Intel is preparing to present its first bitcoin mining ASIC at ISCC 2022. A few days before the presentation the details and characteristics of the first generation of Bonanza Mine ASIC miner from Intel became known. Which is based on 7nm BZM1 chip, though it is not specified at which factory these ASIC chips are produced: Intel or TSMC.

The current table with the hashrate of videocards for 2022

hashrate of video cards on popular mining algorithms

As of early 2022, video card mining continues to be quite profitable, despite the fact that the mining boom has been going on for over a year, which in itself is not an ordinary event. All last year, as well as several years before, the most popular and profitable cryptocurrency for mining remains Ethereum with the mining algorithm Ethash or Dagger-Hashimoto. Also in 2021 we can observe a trend of using algorithms similar to Ethash (Kawpow, FiroPow, Etchash) for mining altcoins, i.e. using DAG files to load them into video card memory. Which requires video cards with at least 4Gb of video memory to mine. Recall that Ethereum mining requires 6Gb of video memory.

SK Hynix promises fastest GDDR6 memory at 27Gbit/s

sk hynix hbm3 gddr6 In December, we already wrote about Samsung achievements in the production of GDDR6 memory, which is 50% faster than GDDR6 used in the current generations of video cards. As a reminder, Samsung offers GDDR6 at 24Gbit/s for ordering. The second major memory company SK Hynix did not stand aside and at the ISSCC 2022 conference will present its answer in the form of GDDR6 memory with a bandwidth of 27Gbit/s, which is currently a record.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 hashrate in Ethereum mining

rtx 3050 mining ethereum hasharte The new budget video card from Nvidia RTX 3050 due to its technical characteristics should be a worthy substitute for GTX 1060, GTX 1660 and RX 580, RX5500XT video cards in Ethereum mining, but it is much more energy efficient. Since the memory bandwidth of RTX 3050 (224Gbit/s) is comparable to the above mentioned graphics cards, but it is made on a more modern technological process.

Intel to release its own asic chip for Bitcoin mining - Bonanza Mine

intel asic miner bitcoin bonanza

At the ISSCC 2022 conference, Intel is planning to present its own Bitcoin mining chip called Bonanza Mine. Intel representatives are scheduled to speak at 7:00 AM PST on February 23, and the full title of the presentation is "Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC". Intel made the first statements on work on cryptocurrency mining devices back in 2018, when the patent "Optimized SHA-256 datapath for energy-efficient high-performance Bitcoin mining" was registered.

Bitmain Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd - the most powerful asic miner for bitcoin mining

antminer s19 pro+ hydro asic bitcoin

Bitmain announced a new asic miner for the SHA-256 algorithm with a hash rate of 198 TH/s, which is currently the most powerful device for mining Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The novelty is called Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd, i.e. it is not a new generation of ASIC, but the current extension of the 19 series of Bitmain ASIC. Moreover, S19 PRO+ Hyd is not the most energy efficient solution, as it offers energy efficiency of only 27.5 J/TH. In comparison, the S19 XP model can offer 21.5 J/TH, i.e. the S19 XP consumes 28% less per 1TH.

Mining on laptops with Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 graphics cards

nvidia geforce rtx 3050 ti mobile mining hashrate

About mining on laptops with mobile graphics cards Nvidia RTX 3060 RTX 3070, RTX 3080 is already known much if not all, because since January 2021, when laptops with these graphics cards went on sale, they are actively used in mining Ethereum cryptocurrency. Unlike the older versions of the graphics cards RTX 3050 Mobile and RTX 3050 ti Mobile miners bypassed because of the 4GB video buffer (not enough for mining Ethereum) and the later release May - June, when the price of the cryptocurrency has dropped in half from 60.000USD to 30.000 USD per Bitcoin. When you consider that laptops with RTX 3050ti are selling at a price of 1000USD, which corresponds to the current market price of a full graphics card Nvidia GTX 1660 Super, then buying such a laptop with the prospect of its use in mining cryptocurrencies looks not so stupid idea. Especially because the hash rate of RTX 3050 Ti and GTX 1660 Super on KawPow, Zhash and other mining algorithms is almost equal.

New GDDR6 memory from Samsung will increase video card hashrate by 50%

gddr6 samsung memory hashrate on ethereum

Samsung announced new GDDR6 video memory chips with increased data transfer rates of 20Gbps and 24Gbps at the end of 2021. The new chips are fully compatible with JEDEC specifications for GDDR6 standard. This will allow the release of improved versions of the current generations of video cards, which use 16Gbps GDDR6 memory, with minimal effort. I.e. just introduced memory from Samsung is exactly 50% more productive than current solutions. That is exactly what AMD did this summer, when a limited edition of Radeon RX 6900XT LC graphics cards with water cooling and 18.5Gbps GDDR6 memory hit the shelves instead of 16Gbps for the standard RX 6900XT model.

Intel and AMD processor hashrate on GhostRider algorithm, Raptoreum cryptocurrency

raptoreum mining on processors

Mining on CPUs is not as popular as mining on video cards or asics, but even despite this there are new projects focused on mining with CPUs. One of such new projects is Raptoreumcryptocurrency with hybrid system of work confirmation, i.e. it is possible to mine Raptoreum cryptocurrency by two ways: mining and stacking (POW&POS). Raptoreum cryptocurrency mining is based on the unique GhostRider algorithm with protection against mining on video cards and asics. If you are interested in mining cryptocurrencies on CPUs, you should definitely pay attention to this project, because today the yield of mining is about 3 times higher than mining of the popular Monero cryptocurrency, based on the CPU-oriented RandomX algorithm.

Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max tested in mining Monero cryptocurrency (RandomX)

Apple M1 Max, M1 Pro test in mining cryptocurrency Monero hashrate Almost a month has passed since the October 18, 2021 presentation of Apple's new MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 MAX processors, but there is still a lot of praise and debate online about the advantages and disadvantages of Apple's new ARM processors. If you closely follow the computer market and Apple products in particular, you probably already know about the capabilities of the new MacBook Pro for work and games. But how the Apple laptops will behave in cryptocurrency mining is also no less interesting, especially because this information can further add fire to the already heated debate in the confrontation between Apple, AMD and Intel.

Bitmain Antminer S19XP - 140TH/s, 3010W, 5nm

bitmain antminer s19xp

Bitmain at the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) conference in Dubai on November 9-10, 2021 will present a new asic miner for Bitcoin cryptocurrency mining, i.e. an asic for SHA-256 mining algorithm. The name is expected to be Antminer S19XP, ie it will not be a completely new generation, but an improvement of the current solution Antminer S19 PRO. The improvement will be in the use of a more modern 5nm process instead of 7nm, which will improve the power efficiency and hashrate of the asics. Expected Bitmain Antminer S19XP specifications: 140TH/s 3010W, 21.5W/TH. Energy efficiency is 30% better than the previous model Antminer S19 Pro: 110TH/s, 3250W, 29.5W/TH. Information about prices and delivery dates of the first batch of devices at the moment are not known.

Intel Core i9 12900K - hashrate on GhostRider, RandomX, Verushash algorithms

12900k hashrate mining

On November 4, 2021, Intel launched the new 12th generation of its X86 Core processors with a completely redesigned architecture that includes full and power-efficient cores, as has long been the custom for ARM processors for cell phones. The most powerful Alder Lake generation processor solution is the Intel Core i9 12900K with 24 cores and 30 MB of L3 cache. The 24 cores are derived from 8 full X86 cores with hyperthreading (16 threads) and 8 energy efficient cores without hyperthreading. As nowadays cryptocurrency mining is no less interesting than gamble and work tasks, so it will be no less interesting to know how much the top Intel processor shows hash rate on popular mining processor algorithms.

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