xmrig-cuda VS MoneroVMiner

For Windows you can get the plugin precompiled from MoneroOcean/xmrig-cuda releases just match whatever is closest to your nvidia-smi CUDA runtime version (top right corner)

Setup another clone of the whole xmrig folder, change cpu->enabled:false and cuda->enabled:true, get moneroocean CUDA plugin, let it test all algorithms. Will earn more than the CPU. Run them both at the same time. If both enabled in the single xmrig session that locks algo to the same on both which would never be optimal.

Linux requires you to build the plugin yourself since there are no releases of MO/xmrig-cuda for it. Rough instructions are here, scroll down to the CUDA section. For proper toolkit, check nvidia-smi for what version of CUDA your driver contains (top right corner) then get that CUDA Toolkit.

GT620 is a Fermi based thing, that will work with CUDA 8.0, you'll have to run old drivers (probably 391.35) and obtain the MoneroOcean fork of xmrig-cuda for 8.0 release from me because official MoneroOcean repo doesn't build releases for 8.0 and I just built this for another user on here recently (will keep it updated too).

Then I go grab the MoneroOcean/xmrig-cuda release for that (or below) and xmrig-cuda-v6.15.1-mo2-cuda10_1-win64.zip fits that requirement.

If you need the CUDA plugin for xmrig then also use the MoneroOcean fork of xmrig-cuda or it will not understand cn-gpu.

Also if using the xmrig-cuda plugin for nvidia GPUs, use their fork as well or you will be missing cn-gpu algorithm support (it would be in the miner / but the plugin would fail to understand it).

Use the cuda10_2 release and see if it works.

MoneroOcean xmrig-cuda

The main things that are the same are: * Use MO forks of everything: xmrig xmrig-cuda plugin (if nvidia) * Setup cpu-only xmrig as normal. Give rig-id in pass field (rigName:[email protected]) * Setup another separate folder configured cpu off and cuda or opencl on with different rig-id * Let each run their benchmarking and generate algo-perf * Run them both

And then for c29v you need MoneroVMiner and this MoneroVMiner.sh because it has oddball launching requirement (must have PWD of the MVM/bin directory): ```

Yes for autoswitch including ethash and c29v/c29s/c29b which are not supported by xmrig, you need MoneroOcean/meta-miner which will kill xmrig and launch ethminer/gminer/others to handle the extra algorithms and still launch xmrig if any of its algorithms become more profitable sometimes. Skip the docs where it says gminer 2.39 for c29v support that doesn't work anymore (broken donate pool, so it exits), get MoneroVMiner instead since it actually works. You can run meta-miner with just xmrig passed through and ethminer added, and then add on the others later since each miner takes some setup. Eth is not very far from most valuable although my GTX1060 has been preferring c29v for the last 18 hours or so. Depends on which type of card as to which algos it is more talented with.