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How to see if your GPU is being used by games or a process in linux? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SpiderUnderUrBed@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Title, I am unsure if games are using my GPU or if using my CPU, or maybe my GPU through my CPU, I do not know, something is using my GPU, but I think its just KDE plasma, and I would like to know definitively how to find out

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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 11 months ago (5 children)

nvtop will show you what processes are using your GPU.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 11 points 11 months ago

Thanks til. After 30+ years using Linux exclusively. That is very useful.

Admittedly GPUs were not a thing when I started. It's cool to learn new useful things. Thanks.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

...and for anyone like me who was unsure, yes it works equivalently for AMD. I think Intel as well, but I'm not sure about that.

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The master branch works well with Intel ARC, I contributed a lot of the ARC changes. I don't think they've made it into a release yet though.

Edit: 3.2.0 has them: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop/releases/tag/3.2.0

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

Thank you for your contributions!

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

+1 for nvtop, helped me check my vram usage

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the tip! I wasn't aware of nvtop, and I'm thoroughly pleased that's no longer the case.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

does it work for multi gpu systems?

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The screenshot in the readme suggests it does, but I couldn’t say for myself. I’m not that rich.

https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

nice