How can I identify which processes are using the GPU?

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Is there any way to find out which process is using the GPU for intensive calculations? (OpenCL, CUDA, etc? Primarily OpenCL?)

e.g. if you run an OpenCL-powered video transcoder, you'll see nothing in your task manager that tells your GPU is burning through data at a ridiculous rate - though your fans will have kicked into overdrive.

If the reply is driver-specific, I am interested in nVidia primarily.

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '13 at 01:41

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Turns out Sysinternals' Process Explorer can do this (of course it can, there's nothing it can't do, apparently!).

Process Explorer GPU load by process

answered Apr 21 '13 at 01:41

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

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score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '13 at 06:12

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Process Hacker, the open source alternative to Process Explorer, also shows the GPU usage.

Press CTRL+I to get the system information Window and click on the GPU Tab, so get a graph with the GPU usage.

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answered Apr 21 '13 at 06:12

magicandre1981

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '13 at 00:55

AMD Catalyst Control Center has an indicator of GPU activity in the Performance section. I would assume nVidia software has a similar output. It's usually associated with overclocking.

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Otherwise you can download the free GPU-Z. It includes a GPU Load output.

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How can I identify which processes are using the GPU?

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