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{{stub}}The '''OpenCL miner''' is a Bitcoin miner created by m0mchil. It requires an OpenCL or CUDA compatible graphics card, and uses OpenCL to generate a block using your graphics card's GPU.
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An '''OpenCL miner''' is a bitcoin miner that uses the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL OpenCL framework] to perform the hashing computations. When used with a modern GPU, this can produce hash rates orders of magnitude higher than what can be achieved with a CPU. Hashing on a GPU requires an OpenCL or CUDA compatible graphics card.
  
This miner is highly looked for, as mining performance on a GPU may outperform a similarly priced CPU in many times.
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The first open source OpenCL bitcoin miner was created by m0mchil<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1334.0 m0mchil's announcement on the forum]</ref>. Subsequently another miner based on m0mchil's was created in Java by Diablo-D3.<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1721.0 Diablo's announcement on the forum]</ref>
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See the [[Mining Hardware Comparison]] page for detailed statistics on the hash rates that can be achieved with various hardware.
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Revision as of 23:58, 23 December 2010

Hashbtc.jpgThis page is a stub. Help by expanding it. An OpenCL miner is a bitcoin miner that uses the OpenCL framework to perform the hashing computations. When used with a modern GPU, this can produce hash rates orders of magnitude higher than what can be achieved with a CPU. Hashing on a GPU requires an OpenCL or CUDA compatible graphics card.

The first open source OpenCL bitcoin miner was created by m0mchil[1]. Subsequently another miner based on m0mchil's was created in Java by Diablo-D3.[2]

See the Mining Hardware Comparison page for detailed statistics on the hash rates that can be achieved with various hardware.

References