For almost a year and a half now, mining Zcash, ZClassic and ZenCash have been some of the most profitable coins to mine with Nvidia GPUs. For most of that time, the gold standard in EquiHash mining has been EWBF's Zcash CUDA Miner. Most miners who are mining Zcash, Zclassic and all the other EquiHash based coins have gladly paid the 2% dev fee the software charges for the increased performance.
But now there is a new miner, Bminer, that promises to squeeze a little more mining performance from your GPU while still only charging the 2% dev fee. We put the two miners to the test to see if the promise of more hash, called Sol/s for Equihash, is true or not. Sol/s stands for Solutions per second.
The GPU used for the test is an EVGA GeForce GTX 1060. The computer used was an Intel i3-2120 CPU running Windows 7 OS. We collected Sol/s from two points, the software reported rate and the pool reported rate.
First we ran EWBF's miner.
And the Sol/s reported by the pool was
Next we ran Bminer.
And the Sol/s reported by the pool was
The following table shows the results.
| Reported By | EWBF Sol/s | BMiner Sol/s | BMiner % Increase |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 290 | 309 | 6.5% |
| Pool | 297 | 301 | 1.3% |
As you can see, the Bminer software outperforms EWBF's miner by an average of about 3.9%. Since both miners charge the same 2% dev fee, it makes sense to use Bminer. In fact, since the 1060 GPU used in the test will produce a little over $536 a year at current coin prices and difficulty, the extra 3.9% from using Bminer should bring in an extra $21 a year. That's $21 a year, for doing nothing more than you are currently doing.
You can find the Bminer software on their website https://www.bminer.me/releases/.
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Seems there are amd altcoins and nvidia altcoins. As some POWs mine better with different shaders it would seem.
Absolutely, certain algorithms work better with AMC GPUs like Ethereum's Ethash, while other algorithms run better on Nvidia GPUs like Equihash or Neoscrypt.
Good info. Faster miners are always welcome. Anything to stay a step ahead of the competition and squeeze a little more profit out of my rig.
I'm glad you find it useful.
I'm mining ETH right now, but if Zcash becomes the most profitable, I'll start using Bminer to get some.
I am not into the world of mining yet but will be soon if everything goes well in the coming days ;)
Will sure be useful then on buddy !
I wish you luck with it.
Thanks buddy !
the setup for me kind of a problem that's why looking for a cloud based mining solution what do you think about bitclub network
I'm a little hesitant to join anything that "requires" I have a sponsor. Sounds a little scammy to me.
Thanks for posting this review. I will have to give it a try. What mining pool do you use for Equihash? My rewards seem to drop off after 48+ hours with Luckpool, Zhash.pro, etc. I switched to mining ETC with EPool because rewards are as expected and I expect the price to do well in the short term.
I use supernova.cc for mining Equihash based coins. I've never had any problems with them.
bro can only using one card that you mentioned is enough to mine a good amount of coin
One card brings in a little more than $500 a year.
you do mining everyday bro ?
Yes I do.
one of the best gpu used for that thanks for sharing about this :)
You are welcome.
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7 steps guide on how to mine Zcash ZEC
1.Resources:
Get a strong (and better than one) video card for profitable mining. Mining with a laptop, cell phone or an old video card (more than a year old) will not pay off.
Registration for a mining pool
Visit this website, fill out the details and confirm the email sent: Choose a 4-digit pin code which will be used in each update. Enter the site and select Zcash on the left side – Click on “wallet” and enter your ZEC wallet address. Click on “Update Account”.
miningpoolhub
Mining Software: Download here the most appropriate version for your computer.
An executable file (mine.bat) must be created and the following content should be inside it:
exe -cd 0 -t 4 -l us-east1.zcash.miningpoolhub.com:20570-u USER.rig9 -p x
The word “USER” must be replaced with the username you chose for miningpoolhub.
The word rig1 does not need to be replaced unless you want to mine with more than one mining machine.
Turn on mining and monitors of miningpoolhub
Click on “workers” and choose one of the jobs (Account’s default jobs) according to your card. Run the file you have created (mine.bat). Make sure that there are no errors and that a message approving your worker has been received. If you did not get this message, it means you did something wrong. After the program starts running you will see that the worker (called the miner) is added to the “workers” screen. On the site, click “Dashboard” to see data about the mining (it will take some time until you see something; it is updated according to the work that the mining machine does).
Withdrawing the coin to your wallet:
After you have accumulated a certain amount and you wish to withdraw it, click “wallet” and then “cash out”. Verify the amount and wallet address first. Within a few minutes, the amount will be sent to your wallet.
It is recommended that you install applications such as MSI Afterburner in order to control the card’s fan. In its default mode, the power is low and it allows the card to reach a temperature of 70-80 degrees Celcius (normal when playing occasionally but not healthy when it comes to a machine running 24-hours a day).
It is advisable to put the fan regularly on a certain percentage so that the heat of the card is about 60 degrees (note that during the day the house is warmer and the temperature will rise accordingly).
You can estimate how much profit you will get, by checking on CryptoCompare.
The site shows the value of the currency and its estimated value in dollars for a certain processing power (you can also enter electricity costs).
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