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About the speed: I managed to get around 1,200,000 pps with a single AMD R9 280, that's a 6x speed increase to the previous GPU-Miner. I could also reduce the memory load. Only the Sieve still runs on the CPU.— Jonnie Frey, 2014-12-05(announcing the improved GPU miner for prime gap searching)