Is There a GPU Performance Monitoring Tool for Ubuntu?
Content Type: Maintenance & Performance | Article ID: 000095813 | Last Reviewed: 08/25/2025
Is there a tool to monitoring tool used to see GPU usage? A tool that seems and works like AMD's radeontop which can show color outputs and has more than 10 metrics.
For monitoring, the only tool available is intel_gpu_top.
It can be installed through the command line with the command:
sudo apt install intel-gpu-tools
To run the monitoring tool, use the command:
sudo intel_gpu_top
| Note | intel-gpu-tools are meant for the development and testing of DRM drivers, as indicated in their documentation. The intel_gpu_top command will show some information for the i915 devices and may or may not suit your needs. These tool is not equivalent to the Intel Graphics Software for Windows. |
For performance monitoring, run benchmarks and compare results based on their scores.
For example: Using glmark2:
$ sudo apt install glmark2$ glmark2