Would you like to learn how to do Monero GPU mining? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to GPU mine Monero using the software xmr-stak and an AMD RX 480 GPU on a computer running Ubuntu Linux.

Hardware List:

The following section presents the list of equipment used to create this Monero GPU Mining tutorial.

Every piece of hardware listed above can be found at Amazon website.

Software List:

Here is a list of software that we used to create this Monero GPU Mining tutorial.

We offer two ways to download this software.

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Tutorial – XMR-STAK Monero GPU Mining

Create a new account on the Minergate website to become a member of the mining pool

First, let’s install the AMD GPU driver. (amdgpu-pro-17.30-465504.tar.xz)

Download this file on a windows computer and use the WinSCP program to transfer it to the linux computer.

On the Linux computer, you need to copy this file to the /downloads/drivers folder.

# mkdir /downloads/driver -p
# cd /downloads/driver
# tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.30-465504.tar.xz
# cd amdgpu-pro-17.30-465504
# ./amdgpu-pro-install
# reboot

Second let’s install the AMD-APP-SDK package. (AMD-APP-SDKInstaller-v3.0.130.136-GA-linux64.tar.bz2)

Download this file on a windows computer and use the WinSCP program to transfer it to the linux computer.

On the Linux computer, you need to copy this file to the /downloads/drivers folder.

# cd /downloads/drivers
# tar -jxvf AMD-APP-SDKInstaller-v3.0.130.136-GA-linux64.tar.bz2
# ./AMD-APP-SDK-v3.0.130.136-GA-linux64.sh

On the Linux console, use the following commands to install the required packages:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install apt install libmicrohttpd-dev libssl-dev
# apt-get install cmake build-essential libhwloc-dev

Create a directory to the miner software and download the xmr-stak package.

# mkdir /downloads
# cd /downloads
# git clone https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak

Compile and install the xmr-stak software.

# mkdir xmr-stak/build
# cd xmr-stak/build
# cmake .. -DCUDA_ENABLE=OFF
# ln -s /opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libOpenCL.so /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1
# ldconfig
# make install

Edit the limits.conf file and add the following lines.

# vi /etc/security/limits.conf

* soft memlock 262144
* hard memlock 262144

To start the Monero GPU mining use the following command, as an example:

# sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=128
# cd /downloads/xmr-stak/build/bin
# ./xmr-stak –noCPU –url stratum+tcp://xmr.pool.minergate.com:45560 -u virtualcoin.videos@gmail.com -p x
# ./xmr-stak –url stratum+tcp://xmr.pool.minergate.com:45560 -u virtualcoin.videos@gmail.com -p x

As a requirement, you need to change the username virtualcoin.videos@gmail.com from the command above to your username.

Keep in mind that the username virtualcoin.videos@gmail.com was used only as an example.

FAQ – Monero CPU Mining

If you are having problems to start mining Monero, you should take a look at our frequently asked questions page.

To add a question to the database, please post the question as a comment on the youtube video listed on the top of this page.