Software and devUpdated November 9

Open-source tool shows GPU memory by process.

Scott Hanselman revealed gputaskman after saying he wanted to know where his GPU memory was going. Its terminal-like interface breaks GPU activity and VRAM use down by process, including workloads from local AI models. On Hanselman’s RTX 4080 SUPER, Windows Desktop Window Manager used the most VRAM; a view of a local model showed memory for its weights and KV cache. In the report’s test on an RTX 4060 laptop, no discrete-GPU processes appeared at first. Once the reviewer ran Unigine Valley, live GPU load, VRAM use and temperature appeared. The experimental, MIT-licensed tool supports Windows, Linux and macOS, and portable Windows builds had reached v0.3.0. Hanselman has hinted that more extensive GPU monitoring built into Windows might be possible.

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