Apr 13 2019 Attempting to mine Cryptocurrency with an old machine

This is the story of me attempting to convert an old machine into a Cryptocurrency miner. I basically tried to plug my AMD Radeon RX 480 graphic card into an old PC, a Core 2 duo with 4GB RAM and a GF7050T-M5 motherboard.

• According to the GF7050T-M5 manual, its PCI …

Dec 25 2018 AMD RX 480 GPU OpenCL benchmark

This post summarizes the results of my AMD GPU benchmark code to benchmark the computing power of an AMD Radeon RX 480 GPU against an Intel Core i5-7400 CPU.

The benchmarking code I am running on is the following code:

__kernel void kerntest(__global char* data, int loops_cnt) {
            size_t id …