I saw Toomin give a lower number for H/s than Sol/s when measuring a R9 290’s hash rate. That’s why I asked.
Also - that would mean my 4 year old Toshiba Satellite is doing 45 H/s on CPU mining. While I would love if it was true, it can’t possibly be.
That gives you the average… to find just one solution? In that case, your CPU is even slower than I thought, ten times slower: 0.022 Sol/s. The internal miner is extremely slow, but fortunately a huge improvement is on the way, integrating Tromp’s optimized solver. You need a CPU with AVX for that though, which isn’t found on Celerons and Pentiums. Which CPU does your Toshiba Satellite have?
Yes, but I bet your i7 can do 15-20 Sol/s if you try it again with the latest version of Zcash and enable the Tromp solver. The improvements will not show up on that benchmarking function, but mining will be super fast.
If you’re on RC2, the most accurate way is to run the miner and wait. The metrics screen shows a running average (total solutions found since start / time since start), that will get more accurate as you go.
Have you tried running it on just 1 core? whats the performance? As I understand it wouldn’t double your hashrate if you add more cores to it as there would be bottlenecks.