New open-source tool reveals exactly what’s using up all your GPU VRAM - KitGuru
Microsoft developer Scott Hanselman has released gputaskman, an experimental open-source utility that provides detailed per-process GPU monitoring, including VRAM usage, power draw and AI workloads.
Microsoft developer Scott Hanselman has released gputaskman, an experimental open-source utility that provides detailed per-process GPU monitoring. The tool can track GPU utilisation, VRAM usage, power draw and AI workloads on a per-application basis.
Hanselman's tool displays real-time metrics for individual applications, including power draw, clock speeds, PCIe traffic, encoder activity and VRAM usage. The utility aims to provide a much more detailed breakdown of graphics workloads than Windows Task Manager currently exposes by default.
AI monitoring features
The tool also includes specific monitoring features for local AI workloads. Beyond simple memory figures, gputaskman can identify active AI processes and surface information about their runtime, model weights, quantisation format and layer count.
Hanselman says the project is still experimental, so users should expect occasional bugs and incomplete telemetry.
Platform support
gputaskman currently supports Windows, Linux, WSL and Apple Silicon Macs, with Nvidia and AMD GPU support available depending on platform. Getting more visibility into what background applications are doing with your graphics card is always welcome.
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