Optimizing Nvidia GPUs for Performance with Lower Power Usage for Kaspa (KAS) Mining

Kaspa (KAS) has been doing great going up in price and attracting the attention of more miners as well as traders and investors and the project is still not listed on any of the large exchanges. Kaspa has the technology to evolve in one of the top Layer 1 crypto projects in the future and is one of the not that many Proof of Work based promising projects that could also bring back profitability for GPU miners. So, a reminder to check KAS out if you still haven’t done so already, don’t say we didn’t warn you. If you are a miner, then you should most definitely take a look at Kaspa and their GPU-heavy mining algorithm and probably get in early and start mining. Kaspa has a reduction of the mined coins every month and the difficulty is going up as more and more miners join. But now, let us focus more on mining Kaspa (KAS) and how you can optimize the settings of your Nvidia GPUs for optimal performance or for optimal efficiency looking at some of the more popular Nvidia GPUs used for mining.

We are going to be using the latest lolMiner 1.63 as mining software for the examples below, showing you the command lines and explaining what parameters to set and why. LolMiner is available for both Windows and Linux and is a part of most mining-based operating systems such as HiveOS, so you can still use the tips below although setting up additional parameters in a Linux-based mining OS might be a bit different compared to just running the mining software itself. Anyway, since KAS uses a GPU-heavy mining algorithm called kHeavyHash you don’t need a lot of video memory in terms of capacity or bandwidth, so even a bit older higher-end Nvidia GPUs can perform quite well in term of performance with surprisingly good power efficiency when properly tweaked. Alternatively, you can also Triple-mine ETC + ZIL + KAS (or another Ethash or ETChash crypto coin, not only Ethereum Classic) for optimized and more diversified mining portfolio.

We are starting up with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 and what settings to use for optimal performance with reduced power usage. Since the RTX 3090 has a lot of high-speed GDDR6X video memory and you don’t need it for KAS mining we are going to lower the frequency as much as possible in order to save power (GDDR6X does use a lot of power) and significantly reduce the heat otherwise generated by the memory chips when mining crypto coins using memory-based algorithms. The same principle applies to other GPUs with…