How to Properly Dual Mine KAS + ZIL With the Rigel 1.3.4 Nvidia GPU Miner

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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 by way of competing with different older and extra established and broadly used miners. It doesn’t assist that many algorithms, however it’s rapidly introducing assist for ones which can be gaining lots of person consideration and the efficiency is admittedly good. To not point out that the miner comes with a pleasant text-based terminal person interface, is sort of straightforward to make use of and comes with the precise variety of options together with full overclocking set for the GPUs.

The Rigel miner additionally helps twin mining with Zilliqa (ZIL) as a method to additional enhance 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 as a result of manner ZIL is being mined – only a very brief time frame each two hours, so basically you keep the total hashrate of the primary 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 couple of variations ZIL mining was damaged apparently, although the most recent 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 that you could maximize your revenue and get extra than simply single mining KAS. Now, Kaspa (KAS) and its kheavyhash algorithm is GPU-intensive, so you may optimize efficiency with a big discount in energy utilization in comparison with the conventional settings in your video card. On the opposite finish nevertheless you’ve got Zilliqa (ZIL) that may be a memory-intensive algorithm that identical to Ethereum or another Ethash-based crypto coin like ETC that’s nonetheless mineable doesn’t want lots of GPU energy, however can profit from most clock of the video reminiscence.

So, learn how to mix these two seemingly reverse algorithms for dual-mining whereas getting optimum efficiency mining each? That is what we’re going to check out now with the beneath instance for dual-mining KAS + ZIL on an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPU, adopted by clarification 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 to have the precise 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 choice 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 word that the 250-300 setting usually works properly on most RTX 3070 GPUs, so check in your mining {hardware} and discover what works secure 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 confer with 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 cut back the ability 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 may 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 convey up the ability utilization to about 115-120 Watts (these can differ from GPU mannequin to GPU mannequin). So, there will probably be a slight enhance of energy utilization for a few minutes in whole each day and thus there will probably be not a lot of a distinction within the total energy utilization. Whereas mining ZIL you’ll not be mining KAS, however once more the swap is for a brief time frame and the earnings for the mined ZIL ought to be capable to compensate for the time you’ll not be mining KAS.

However why not depart the GPU settings for KAS mining for ZIL mining as properly a few of chances are you’ll ask? Effectively, the reply is fairly easy – the ZIL mining efficiency will probably be very low as a result of low reminiscence setting we’re utilizing to save lots of energy when mining KAS. Whereas Kaspa may be mined with out efficiency loss at 807 MHz for the video reminiscence, that working frequency will end in 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 further MHz over its inventory frequency on the identical GPU. So, when you is perhaps saving slightly little bit of energy the hashrate will probably be so low that you just may not be capable to ship even one share in the course of the ZIL mining timeframe and thus you may simply be losing your time, in contrast to 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 be capable to at present mine 1-2 ZIL (relying on the variety of shares you get).