NVIDIA System Monitor is a graphical task manager for Linux computers equipped with NVIDIA graphics hardware. Built with Qt, it provides a desktop interface for examining GPU utilisation, memory consumption and the processes using graphics or compute resources.
The application is designed for users who want to monitor their graphics card without working directly with terminal commands. It presents hardware and process statistics in separate areas, making it easier to distinguish overall device activity from individual workloads.
NVIDIA System Monitor relies on information supplied by nvidia-smi. It can therefore show a range of hardware measurements without implementing its own low-level monitoring driver.
The application is useful for investigating high GPU utilisation, checking available video memory and identifying programs that are consuming graphics resources. The precise measurements depend on what the installed NVIDIA driver and hardware expose.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a graphical Qt interface for NVIDIA GPU monitoring.
- Displays GPU utilisation and activity levels.
- Reports graphics card temperature and power consumption.
- Shows core and memory clock frequencies.
- Displays total, used and available video memory.
- Provides memory utilisation and I/O activity measurements.
- Lists processes using the graphics card.
- Identifies GPU processes by process ID and GPU device.
- Distinguishes supported process and workload types.
- Reports framebuffer memory consumption for individual processes.
- Displays streaming multiprocessor utilisation where supported.
- Reports per-process GPU memory activity.
- Shows hardware encoding and decoding information when available.
Website: github.com/congard/nvidia-system-monitor-qt
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Developer: Daniel Kongarden
License: MIT License
NVIDIA System Monitor is written in C++. Learn C++ 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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One of the poorest monitoring tools for NVIDIA cards.