XMRig supports GhostRider algorithm starting from version v6.16.0.
No tuning is required - auto-config works well on most CPUs!
Note for Windows users: MSVC binary is ~5% faster than GCC binary!
xmrig -a gr -o raptoreumemporium.com:3008 -u WALLET_ADDRESS
xmrig -a gr -o us.flockpool.com:5555 --tls -u WALLET_ADDRESS
You can use rtm_ghostrider_example.cmd as a template and put pool URL and your wallet address there. The general XMRig documentation is available here.
While individual algorithm implementations are a bit unoptimized, XMRig achieves higher hashrates by employing better auto-config and more fine-grained thread scheduling: it can calculate a single batch of hashes using 2 threads for parts that don't require much cache. For example, on a typical Intel CPU (2 MB cache per core) it will use 1 thread per core for cn/fast, and 2 threads per core for other Cryptonight variants while calculating the same batch of hashes, always achieving more than 50% CPU load.
For the same reason, XMRig can sometimes use less than 100% CPU on Ryzen 3000/5000 CPUs if it finds that running 1 thread per core is faster for some Cryptonight variants on your system. Also, this is why it reports using only half the threads at startup - it's actually 2 threads per each reported thread.
Windows (detailed results here)
| CPU | cpuminer-gr-avx2 (tuned), h/s | XMRig (MSVC build), h/s | Speedup |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 7 4700U | 632.6 | 731 | +15.5% |
| Intel Core i7-2600 | 496.4 | 533.6 | +7.5% |
| AMD Ryzen 7 3700X @ 4.1 GHz | 2453.0 | 2469.1 | +0.65% |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X @ 4.65 GHz | 2112.6 | 2221.2 | +5.1% |
Linux (tested by Delgon, detailed results here)
| CPU | cpuminer-gr-avx2 (tuned), h/s | XMRig (GCC build), h/s | Speedup |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | 3746.51 | 3604.89 | -3.78% |
| 2xIntel Xeon E5-2698v3 | 2563.4 | 2638.38 | +2.925% |