Checking GPU Usage Information

Understand how to check GPU usage information.

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Here, we will talk about how to check GPU usage along with other hardware usage information in Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

For Windows

In Windows 10, the easiest way to check hardware usage (including GPU usage) is using Task Manager. We can open it by pressing "Ctrl + Shift + Esc", and switch to the "Performance" panel. All hardware usage information is available now.

For Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, we can check CPU, RAM, and drive usage with GNOME System Monitor, which is shipped with the system. We can search for the system monitor in the "Application" menu, or run gnome-system-monitor in a Terminal to open it.

Alternatively, we can install a GNOME extension to illustrate the usage graphs in the status bar. We recommend using the system-monitor extensionhttps://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/ for this purpose. To install it, we first need to install several prerequisites:

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