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How to get the GPU info?
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Conky or Terminal Splash Screen
I use two methods to automatically display nVidia GPU and Intel iGPU information:
- Conky dynamically displays GPU information in real time
~/.bashrcdisplays GPU information each time the terminal is opened
Conky real time display
This example uses Conky to display current GPU (nVidia or Intel) stats in real time. Conky is a light weight system monitor popular among many Linux enthusiasts.
The display changes depending on if you booted after prime-select intel or prime-select nvidia.
Intel iGPU
- The Intel iGPU shows as
Skylake GT2 HD 530 iGPUwith current frequency - The Minimum frequency is
350MHz and the Maximum is1050MHz
nVidia GPU
- The nVidia GPU shows as
GeForce GTX970Mwith current GPU frequency and temperature - The Driver version, P-State and BIOS version are displayed
- The GPU load, RAM use, Power Consumption and RAM frequency is displayed
Conky Code
Here is the relevant Conky script for Intel iGPU and nVidia GPU:
#------------+
# Intel iGPU |
#------------+
${color orange}${hr 1}${if_match "intel" == "${execpi 99999 prime-select query}"}
${color2}${voffset 5}Intel® Skylake GT2 HD 530 iGPU @${alignr}${color green}${execpi .001 (cat /sys/class/drm/card1/gt_cur_freq_mhz)} MHz
${color}${goto 13}Min. Freq:${goto 120}${color green}${execpi .001 (cat /sys/class/drm/card1/gt_min_freq_mhz)} MHz${color}${goto 210}Max. Freq:${alignr}${color green}${execpi .001 (cat /sys/class/drm/card1/gt_max_freq_mhz)} MHz
${color orange}${hr 1}${else}
#------------+
# Nvidia GPU |
#------------+
${color2}${voffset 5}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=gpu_name --format=csv,noheader)} ${color1}@ ${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=clocks.sm --format=csv,noheader)} ${alignr}${color1}Temp: ${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=temperature.gpu --format=csv,noheader)}°C
${color1}${voffset 5}Ver: ${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=driver_version --format=csv,noheader)} ${color1} P-State: ${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=pstate --format=csv,noheader)} ${alignr}${color1}BIOS: ${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=vbios_version --format=csv,noheader)}
${color1}${voffset 5}GPU:${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu --format=csv,noheader)} ${color1}Ram:${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.memory --format=csv,noheader)} ${color1}Pwr:${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=power.draw --format=csv,noheader)} ${alignr}${color1}Freq: ${color green}${execpi .001 (nvidia-smi --query-gpu=clocks.mem --format=csv,noheader)}
${color orange}${hr 1}${endif}
## ```
### `~/.bashrc` Terminal splash screen
This example modifies `~/.bashrc` to display information on a splash screen each time the terminal is opened or whenever you type `. .bashrc` at the shell prompt.
In addition to `neofetch` answered previously, there is `screenfetch` which looks a lot nicer (IMO). Plus another answer mentions he doesn't know how to get iGPU listed and this does it:
[![ubuntu terminal splash.png][3]][3]
For details on setup see: [Terminal splash screen with Weather, Calendar, Time & Sysinfo?][4]
In summary just for the bottom section with Ubuntu display containing GPU information (second last line) use:
sudo apt install screenfetch screenfetch ```
You’ll want to put the screenfetch command an the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file to have it appear every time you open the terminal.