NVidia GPU load/usage

[tweetyericsson]

Hello

I use the Speedfan plugin to get the temperature on my NVidia GPU. I'd also like to read the usage percentage when I'm playing a game. Is there a GPUZ plugin for example? Because I can't find anything .

Thanks.

[gorlik]

I have wrote a small plugin to get some information from the nvidia driver (including the GPU utilization)
I haven't tried on anything beside my machine, so it might not work as expected on your system, but I would welcome any feedback.

forum thread:
http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3335

download link:
http://gglabs.us/node/7

with this plugin you can get:
driver version
total number of GPUs in the system
GPU name
GPU core/graphics memory/video engine utilization
GPU/board temperature
GPU fan rpm

there is a small readme in the zip file that shows how to get each of the above

[tweetyericsson]

gorlik

It works like a charm. I use $dll(nvplugin,3,0,0), $dll(nvplugin,4,0,0) and $dll(nvplugin,5,0,0) for GPU load, temperature and RPM respectively. I am surprised by the general disinterest of a plugin such as this one. I find it very useful. Great work, thanks!

[gorlik]

tweetyericsson,
thanks for the testing.
Now that it has been tested by at least 2 persons I feel more comfortable in posting in the plugin announcements forum.

[MASS]

What about the Red (ATI/AMD) team then ? Or is it just for the green (Nvidia) team ?

[gorlik]

this plugin uses a NVIDIA propietary driver API to get the information so it will not work with other vendors.
for AMD/ATI you can try atiinfo http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3244

[usser]

new link plz

[CrazyNutz]

Hey guys, I recently created a plugin that will give you what your looking for plus a boatload more. It should also work for Ati.
http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3377

[Fitch]

This is a great plugin! Can you post the commands needed for GPU Name and Clock speeds? Thanks!

[gorlik]

I updated the link to the file and added a link to the main thread.

there is a readme in the file for instructions on how to use.
Anyway for the GPU name:
$dll(NVPlugin,2,0,0)
if you have more than one you can use:
$dll(NVPlugin,2,n,0)
with n from 0 to the number of total GPUs -1

currently there is no method to get the clock speed in nvapi_plugin

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