2 Tools For Monitoring Nvidia GPUs On Linux (GUI And Command Line)

This article presents 2 tools for monitoring Nvidia graphics cards on Linux: one that comes with a terminal user interface (TUI), so it runs in a console, and another one that uses a graphical user interface.

These utilities to monitor Nvidia GPUs require using the proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers.

nvtop - terminal user interface to monitor Nvidia GPUs

nvtop is a (h)top like task monitor for Nvidia GPUs. It uses the ncurses to draw its text-based user interface in the terminal, and it makes use of the NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) to get the GPU information.