Crypto Mining on Mac's: Forum

Our first Crypto mining tests with the Apple's new AMD GPU's in the 2019 Mac Pro. We used XMRig and OpenCL to mine with the AMD Radeon PRO W6800X Duo 64GB and AMD Radeon PRO W6900X 32GB simultaneously under macOS Big Sur 11.5.2. See our new guide on how to crypto mine using your Mac's GPU with XMRig...

Although NiceHash advertises their "QuickMiner" as the recommended miner for Nvidia cards, they don't explicitly say it won't work with AMD GPU's. We tried to install on a computer with 2x AMD GPU's and received this message: nicehash-quickminer-error-amd-gpu.PNG NiceHash QuickMiner Error ...

AMD & Apple released specialized versions of these cards for the (likely last line) of Intel Mac Pro's. They are beasts. It appears the Vega II is no longer a configurable option for the Mac Pro accordingly. We will be testing mining profitability on these cards soon so stay tuned - hashrates + ...

First release of XMRIG for mac os working for CPU and AMD GPUs. Currently the following algo have been tested on GPU and CPU: KawPow "kawpow" GPU RandomX "algo": "rx/0" CPU UPX "cn/upx2" CPU 1. Download this version of xmrig.zip . 2. Download configGPU.json an...

Since I can't make a new topic, go check this out!!!! Found it the other day. HUGE thanks to the dev that made this work!!!! https://github.com/ganzocrypt/xmrig-macos/releases That XMRig Release has allowed me to Use the KawPow algo on Unmineable using the GPU in my macbook pro AMD Pro 5300M 4GB Ge...

Thanks for the incredible write up Steve. Any chance you could attach some screenshots with your eGPU connected and working in Windows along with your crypto mining results from the apps? That would be great if you could when you get time

SteveW928 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:36 pm Last I checked, Honeyminer hadn't even updated their Mac software beyond the first few initial releases, like from several years ago! I think I'd personally avoid that one and go with one of the many others.

Again - you are correct. Thanks for confirming too.

SteveW928 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:25 pm I've gotten the impression that several of these miner apps just want to *advertise* out to the widest possible audience, even if they don't work.

Your absolutely correct on that. Oh, and thanks a lot for sharing in the other posts

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Unmineable allows you to mine most crypto coins including those deemed non-mineable. You can mine using GPU or CPU. See our guide on how to mine any Cryptocurrency here https://cryptominingonmacs.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=101. In this example, we mined BitTorrent (BTT) for 30 minutes and earned ar...