{"id":28098,"date":"2024-03-16T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-use-the-nvidia-smi-command\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T12:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:37:54","slug":"how-do-you-use-the-nvidia-smi-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-use-the-nvidia-smi-command\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you use the nvidia-smi command?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nvidia-smi command is an abbreviation for NVIDIA System Management Interface, a command-line tool used for monitoring and managing NVIDIA GPU devices. It provides detailed information about GPU devices, such as usage, temperature, power consumption, driver versions, etc.<\/p>\n

Here are some common uses of the nvidia-smi command:<\/p>\n

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  1. Display information about GPU devices: nvidia-smi<\/li>\n
  2. Display real-time GPU usage: nvidia-smi -l<\/li>\n
  3. Display information about a specific GPU device: nvidia-smi -i <\/li>\n
  4. Show the utilization rate of the GPU device: nvidia-smi –query-gpu=utilization.gpu –format=csv<\/li>\n
  5. Display the temperature of the GPU device: nvidia-smi –query-gpu=temperature.gpu –format=csv<\/li>\n
  6. Display the power consumption of the GPU device: nvidia-smi –query-gpu=power.draw –format=csv.<\/li>\n
  7. Display the driver version of the GPU device: nvidia-smi –query-gpu=driver_version –format=csv<\/li>\n
  8. Display the memory usage of GPU devices: nvidia-smi –query-gpu=memory.used –format=csv<\/li>\n
  9. Display the specific process’s memory usage on the GPU: nvidia-smi pmon -c 1 -s u<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Please note that the nvidia-smi command requires the NVIDIA driver to be installed and properly configured in order to work correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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