[HOWTO] - Efficient mining ether with Nvidia GPU / Windows 10 / uptodate drivers
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Nvidia cards work much better increasing the memory further and lowering the core clocks - Just keep decreasing core clock until you see a drop in hashing and then fine tune it back. Push that memory until you see issues. It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
July in Mining. Hi everyone, It's my first post on this forum and I want to share my experience in how to efficiently mine ethereum with Windows 10, Nvidia GPU and uptodate drivers. I'm spend lot of time from various resources to have a ethereum mining nvidia driver hashrate, and i though it would be usefull for other to have a complete tutorial.
My setup is very simple: My current hashrate is around 21 MHs. I'm using Claymore miner and ethermine pool, but you can choose other if you want to. Here some ethereum mining nvidia driver links you will need if you want to follow this tutorial: Latest nvidia driver yes, I say latest, almost all howto says to use an old version, that's not true - Once driver is installed, go to "Nvidia Configuration Panel" right click menu on your desktop. It's called pstate Performance State P0 is the maximum pstate, that is used when gaming for example.
When mining ether, nvidia drivers dont detect this workload as an intensive one, and then use the P2 pstate. So manually switching ethereum mining nvidia driver P0 will help you having more MHs telling your card to deliver the maximum performance Changing pstate is not overclocking, it just tell your card to run at the maximum supported speed. You can change pstate using nvidia-smi.
I will illustrate this with my GTXbut you should have different value depending on your nvidia model. You need to be "administrator" for changing pstate. Just launch "cmd" as administrator type cmd in cortana bar, and right click for launching it as an admin First command is for ethereum mining nvidia driver your actual pstate nvidia-smi.
It should be P2. You should have something like this my card is on P0 on this screenshot Second command is to get clock frequencies that you card support without overclocking: But… and here I don't really understand what's happening, just doing observation and tuning Launch MSI afterburner. You wil see that your card isn't at the GPU frequency you manually set with nvidia-smi.
Undervolt can be cool as your card will consume less electricity, but can be instable as running high frequencies need power. But… still don't really understand what's happening. Voltage will be set to factory setting mv in my case but GPU and memory will then be overclocked. I hope this tutorial will help you getting some precious MHs If you feel generous, fell free to send me some ether on my wallet: If you have ethereum mining nvidia driver tips for optimize nvidia mining, I would be pleased to used them too.
It's very simple to switch on ETC mining. Ethermine provide ETC pool also eu1-etc. You just have to change mining. Setting my ethereum mining nvidia driver clock to on my GTX is impacting my hasrate very ethereum mining nvidia driver.
Hashrate fall to 17 MHs. Maybe downclocking works well with newer nvidia GPU that run faster. October edited October I saw references to nvidia-smi and nvidia-settings command line tools in other sources too, but did not have a chance to try yet. I am thinking that not all the settings can ethereum mining nvidia driver set on certain older Nvidia cards using these command line tools, and you probably would not ethereum mining nvidia driver MSI Afterburner, if you could set the settings like power, fan, memory and GPU clock, using the command line tools.
Are you positive that the environment variables you set with setx command actually work with Nvidia cards, or are they AMD specific? Sign In or Register to comment.