radeontop VS nvtop

Linux - with Terminal, install Radeontop (https://github.com/clbr/radeontop) with sudo apt install radeontop , start with radeontop . It's not cutting edge graphics but it works for me as a tool. I'm experimenting with ai apps in Linux and I need to know what my gpu is doing.

I am currently working on a tool that will be the successor to radeontop.

There's radeontop, which can show some information. That's the only thing I'm aware of.

Take a look at radeontop: https://github.com/clbr/radeontop

https://github.com/clbr/radeontop shows 70-85% usage when playing this 4k60FPS video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXb3EKWsInQ

No, it doesn't show encode/decode. Some people on this subreddit will tell you it does for whatever reason like they do every time I bring this up, they clearly never used it or something, but no it does not. There is no easy way to see it like on Intel and Nvidia.

radeon-top

AMD has like 2 or 3 different drivers on nix. The default one is the open source driver. If you see the desktop, it's working. Run a game, should perform decently. You don't see the GPU in performance monitor. That's because GPU metrics aren't standard. You'd need other tools to see GPU metrics.

It can get worse depending on what specific aspect of the GPU is being used. Want to check if your computer is properly using hardware encoding/decoding? Well, you're in luck (with CLI tools), nvidia-smi dmon and intel_gpu_top are really good. Unless you use AMD that is, since radeontop still doesn't have a way to expose GPU encoding/decoding.

> NVTOP stands for Neat Videocard TOP, a (h)top like task monitor for GPUs and accelerators.

I have been using this on AMD for a long time now.

[0]: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop

If you're certain your GPU has deeper power saving states than P8, I would start by checking why it's not using them. Maybe tlp, powertop or nvtop (or their documentation) can help.

Did you run any of the "dashboards" while executing the test? Like [NvTop](https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop)

If you plan on making a system monitor/task manager, could you please make it display actual useful information and not just extremely basic stats like most do now. GNOME and KDE both have overly simple applications for this, that just show the CPU and memory utilisation, and it makes finding information like the processor frequency and temperature so much more difficult. On Windows, for example, the task manager performance tab shows a much greater amount of information for each system component, not just total utilisation. GPU usage is also never shown in any of the popular system monitors, something that's probably important for a lot of users. It's not even necessarily impossible since projects such as nvtop are able to. I do hope we'll eventually get a much better GUI program for monitoring our system in Linux.

Can't nvtop do that?

I'm looking for an alternative to nvtop. It's a Ncidia monitoring tool for Linux. You can easily monitor or kill processes via terminal. I used the nvidia-smi command on windows commanline, but it gives very little information.

Try monitoring your VRAM using nvtop (or something), then run training, if the VRAM maxed, training stopped, then VRAM dropped, then it's 100% not enough VRAM.