Retrieve the latest drivers from AMD's Support page, then install with OpenCL support and reboot: # See: Ī change is required for Vega10 cards (or newer), replace legacy,pal with rocm. Installing AMDGPU pro driver with OpenCL support Since I don't like the idea of others keeping your private keys, I suggest you keep away from cloud wallets (Exodus saves your keys local).įor AMD card's you'll also need to install the AMDGPU-pro driver with OpenCL support before building Ethminer. Personally I recommend using Exodus, since it's easy to set up, supports multiple currencies, and doesn't eat all your system's resources like Mist does. At the time of writing a 4GB card might barely work (if you stop gdm3 or lightdm).Īlso, you need a Wallet to provide your unique Ether-address. You might want to use a DAG size calculator to find out what you need. Again, it doesn't matter if it's NVidia or AMD, though I prefer using the latter.Īlso, make sure your GPU has enough memory. Since Ethereum is optimized for GPU mining, one or more powerfull GPU's are great. Furthermore, it's optimized for mining with GPU's only and it even works when you're using an NVidia card, although AMD probably gives you a bigger bang for the buck. This makes it very hard to transfer the algorithm onto ASIC's but makes GPU's the best method of mining it.Īs a result, the difficulty of mining Ethereum increases much slower compared to other currencies using the Hashcash algorithm. Ethereum however, uses the Ethash algorithm, which is set up in such a way that it requires a big amount of Memory.
Sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit cmake mesa-common-dev git clone Įthminer -U -report-hr -P stratum1+tcp:// versus Bitcoinīitcoin uses the Hashcash algorithm to verify transactions, which is a relatively simple calculation, which has been put on ASIC's that are capable of outperform many GPU's.
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