Mining
The Rigel Nvidia GPU miner is a newcomer among the many mining software program options for GPU miners and extra particularly for Nvidia GPU mining rig operators, however it’s doing fairly properly when it comes to competing with different older and extra established and broadly used miners. It doesn’t help that many algorithms, however it’s shortly introducing help for ones which are gaining a number of person consideration and the efficiency is de facto good. To not point out that the miner comes with a pleasant text-based terminal person interface, is kind of simple to make use of and comes with the proper variety of options together with full overclocking set for the GPUs.
The Rigel miner additionally helps twin mining with Zilliqa (ZIL) as a way to additional improve mining profitability as this dual-mining mode helps not solely ethash and ethash, however any single and even twin algorithm mixture + ZIL. Triple mining is supported for ethash + kheavyhash + zil and etchash + kheavyhash + zil, however that one just isn’t truly that attention-grabbing of a mode in comparison with the dual-mining any algorithm with ZIL. The rationale for that’s because of the means ZIL is being mined – only a very quick time period each two hours, so primarily you keep the complete hashrate of the principle algorithm for mining the remainder of the time and the additional revenue from the mined ZIL just isn’t one thing to overlook.
In the previous few variations ZIL mining was damaged apparently, although the newest replace of Rigel 1.3.4 brings it again working correctly, so we’re going to do a fast overview on how one can dual-mine Kaspa (KAS) with Zilliqa (ZIL), so to maximize your revenue and get extra than simply single mining KAS. Now, Kaspa (KAS) and its kheavyhash algorithm is GPU-intensive, so you possibly can optimize efficiency with a big discount in energy utilization in comparison with the traditional settings to your video card. On the opposite finish nonetheless you’ve got Zilliqa (ZIL) that could be a memory-intensive algorithm that similar to Ethereum or another Ethash-based crypto coin like ETC that’s nonetheless mineable doesn’t want a number of GPU energy, however can profit from most clock of the video reminiscence.
So, the best way to mix these two seemingly reverse algorithms for dual-mining whereas getting optimum efficiency mining each? That is what we’re going to try now with the beneath instance for dual-mining KAS + ZIL on an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPU, adopted by rationalization what and why is getting used like that (the instance is for home windows, however the identical settings ought to work on Linux as properly). Make it possible for within the instance you set YOUR_KASPA_WALLET, YOUR_ZIL_WALLET and YOUR_WORKER_ID to ensure that the mining to correctly begin and also you get the mined cash credited. We’re utilizing WoolyPooly as KAS mining pool and ShardPool for ZIL, although others ought to work as properly (be sure you have the proper settings for them):
rigel.exe -a kheavyhash+zil ^
-o [1]stratum+tcp://pool.woolypooly.com:3112 -u [1]YOUR_KASPA_WALLET ^
-o [2]zmp+tcp://eu1-zil.shardpool.io:3333 -u [2]YOUR_ZIL_WALLET ^
-w YOUR_WORKER_ID --log-file logs/miner.log ^
--cclock 300 ^
--lock-cclock [1]1710 --lock-mclock [1]807 ^
--lock-cclock [2]1200 --mclock [2]1000
Now, the cclock 300 possibility above units the GPU clock offset to ensure that the video playing cards graphical processor to run at a decrease voltage (it’s set for all cash mined), do be aware that the 250-300 setting usually works properly on most RTX 3070 GPUs, so check in your mining {hardware} and discover what works steady for you. Because the first coin we’re mining is KAS and we’ve got it marked with [1] above then the lock-cclock [1]1710 and lock-mclock [1]807 choices seek advice from the video card settings for Kaspa mining, setting the GPU clock locked at 1710 MHz and the reminiscence clock to the minimal supported 807 MHz with the intention to scale back the facility utilization from the reminiscence that we don’t want a lot for the kheavyhash algorithm. The opposite line lock-cclock [2]1200 and mclock [2]1000 refers back to the GPU settings for the second coin we’re mining and on this case that is Zilliqa the place we don’t want the next clocked GPU, however might use a +1000 MHz overclock of the video reminiscence over its inventory settings with the intention to get the hashrate as much as about 60 MH/s for an RTX 3070 GPU.
You’ll discover that mining with the settings used within the instance above on RTX 3070 GPUs you’ll be getting round 90-95 Watts of energy utilization per GPU whereas mining KAS and when the ZIL swap happens the totally different settings that will probably be utilized will deliver up the facility utilization to about 115-120 Watts (these can differ from GPU mannequin to GPU mannequin). So, there will probably be a slight improve of energy utilization for a few minutes in complete each day and thus there will probably be not a lot of a distinction within the general energy utilization. Whereas mining ZIL you’ll not be mining KAS, however once more the swap is for a brief time period and the earnings for the mined ZIL ought to have the ability to compensate for the time you’ll not be mining KAS.
However why not go away the GPU settings for KAS mining for ZIL mining as properly a few of you could ask? Properly, the reply is fairly easy – the ZIL mining efficiency will probably be very low because of the low reminiscence setting we’re utilizing to save lots of energy when mining KAS. Whereas Kaspa could be mined with out efficiency loss at 807 MHz for the video reminiscence, that working frequency will lead to simply round 5 MH/s of hashrate per RTX 3070 GPU in comparison with spherical 60 MH/s when the reminiscence is overclocked with 1000 additional MHz over its inventory frequency on the identical GPU. So, when you could be saving somewhat little bit of energy the hashrate will probably be so low that you simply won’t have the ability to ship even one share throughout the ZIL mining timeframe and thus you would possibly simply be losing your time, not like what the GPU can do at 60 MH/s. Simply as a reference, in a single ZIL mining interval (each two hours) a 6x RTX 3070 GPU mining rig ought to have the ability to presently mine 1-2 ZIL (relying on the variety of shares you get).
