So I grabbed the numbers for my benchmarks last night, this is what the algorithms/hash rates were as listed via the standard benchmarker in nicehash. Note that I don't know if any/all these algorithms are well known/make sense to anyone, i just copied/pasted them out. All of this is at default stocks btw, haven't gotten a chance/cared to play with clocks yet.
Algorithm Rates
x13 12.880MH/s
keccak 0.967GH/s
x15 11.350MH/s
nist5 56.790MH/s
neoscrypt 0.311MH/s
Whirlpoolx 0.43GH/s
qubit 24.31MH/s
quark 34.170MH/s
lyra2re 7.47MH/s
lyra2rev2 47.450MH/s
blake256r8 5.578GH/s
blake256r14 3.124GH/s
blake256r8vnl 5.543 GH/s
daggerhashimoto 20.712 MH/s
decred 3.305GH/s
cryptoknight 379.1 H/s
lbry 0.363 GH/s
equihash 148.96 H/s
Nicehash has been generally favoring Lyra2Rev2 so far, with about 64% of mining spent on that, next one is libry @21%, followed by cryptoknight @10% At current mining rate, it's expecting roughly .078 BTC worth of income/month.
With the current release of Nicehash, on a GTX 1080 for ZCash I'm getting ~175 sol/s with power setting at 55%, core clock in the low 1400s and memory clock at 5216. From what I've read, the 1070s are faster with their lower latency memory, about 220-240 with tuning.
Are you somehow specifying Nicehash to mine Zcash? Is this something I should do/care about? I just sort of 'set it and forget it' and it's mining whatever it auto-negotiates for, or whatever. Sorry, very new to this.
40 H/s is not a lot. I think the 1080 is kind of gimped due to the GDDR5X memory, but I could be wrong. Have you tried the SilentArmy miner yet? You might do better with it. Honestly there isn't much support for CUDA/Nvidia in the Zcash scene right now, especially with Claymore going GCN-only.
Yeah, noticed that support for nvidia is pretty slim. This one seemed like the easiest and most idiot proof I came across in an afternoon. No idea what silent army is, how is it different from Nicehash? Also, I'm noticing there's vastly different rates for different algorithms, I'm assuming some algos just process faster, therefore need more mh/s to be profitable? The aforementioned Lyra2rev2 seems to be getting accepted by nicehash at around the same rate that I benchmarked (45ish MH/s vs 47ish MH/s bench) so that's good I guess. 45MH/s doesn't seem like a large number but the profitability seems appropriate, Nicehash is currently quoting a smidge under $60/mo (.078BTC) which doesn't sound terrible considering this is a non-dedicated rig with a single card and what I think is a very simple setup. Do AMD cards scale that much higher in similar rigs? Quicker ROI notwithstanding, I wouldn't expect them to be pulling massive numbers or anything.