gpustat is a command-line utility for quickly checking GPU activity and the processes using graphics or compute resources. It presents a compact summary of hardware status without requiring a full-screen monitoring application.
The utility reports information such as utilisation, temperature, memory consumption and the processes occupying GPU memory. Its concise output makes it useful for checking a workstation, examining a remote server over SSH or investigating whether a device has sufficient resources for another workload.
Although originally developed for NVIDIA GPUs, gpustat now supports AMD graphics hardware and Huawei Ascend NPUs. It uses the appropriate management interface for each supported accelerator family.
Users can request additional information when needed, run the utility in a continuously updating mode or produce structured output for scripts and external monitoring tools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Displays GPU utilisation, temperature and memory consumption.
- Supports NVIDIA GPUs through NVML.
- Monitors AMD GPUs through ROCm SMI.
- Provides support for Huawei Ascend 910B NPUs through npu-smi.
- Automatically selects an available backend or allows one to be specified explicitly.
- Lists processes using the accelerator together with allocated memory.
- Optionally displays usernames, process IDs and executable names.
- Can show complete command lines and CPU statistics for running processes.
- Reports fan speed, encoder and decoder utilisation where available.
- Displays GPU power draw and power limits on supported hardware.
- Supports selecting particular GPU devices for monitoring.
- Provides a built-in watch mode with configurable update intervals.
- Produces JSON output for scripts and monitoring systems.
- Exposes a Python API for querying accelerator statistics programmatically.
- Supports colourised output and generated shell-completion scripts.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and Windows.
Website: github.com/wookayin/gpustat
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Developer: Jongwook Choi
License: MIT License
gpustat is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| NVIDIA GPU Monitoring Tools | |
|---|---|
| NVTOP | (h)top like task monitor for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs |
| nvitop | Bills itself as “the one-stop solution for GPU process management” |
| LACT | Configures and monitors AMD, NVIDIA and Intel GPUs |
| GPU Hot | Real-time NVIDIA GPU monitoring dashboard |
| gpustat | Query and monitor GPU status |
| GreenWithEnvy | GUI System tool |
| NVDashboard | JupyterLab extension for displaying dashboards of GPU usage |
| nv-monitor | Lightweight terminal-based monitoring application |
| nvidia-htop | Enriches the output of nvidia-smi |
| gptop | Cross-platform GPU monitor |
| NVIDIA System Monitor | Task manager monitoring your GPU |
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