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How can I monitor video memory usage?

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Can you tell us what operating system you are interested in monitoring the usage from? Also, knowing what make/model of video adapter may be useful as well. :) – techie007 Jul 5 '10 at 20:43
I'm using windows 7, mainly. – stacker Jul 6 '10 at 1:02
make/model of video adapter how can I know this? – stacker Jul 6 '10 at 1:08
You can check it via the dxdiag utility. – happy_soil Jul 6 '10 at 8:49
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The GPU is graphics card specific so there won't be a general tool that monitors this. Look for something specific to your graphics card. – ChrisF Feb 27 '11 at 14:22

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GPU load monitoring is not a built-in feature in Windows, but there are third-party tools to do the job.

GPU-Z is a graphics card information tool that supports a number of monitoring options for graphics cards such as clock speeds, fan speed, memory load, GPU load and Video Engine load.

I believe it supports both ATI (AMD) and nVidia graphics cards.

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For my model it only shows the Clocks, not the load – Jader Dias Feb 27 '11 at 19:55
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If you use an ATI or NVIDIA card, you should check out GPU-Z.

Main Features:

  • Support NVIDIA and ATI cards
  • Displays adapter, GPU and display information
  • Displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks (if available)
  • Validation of results
  • No installation required
  • Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows 7 (both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported)

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You almost got -1 for using ATI – bobobobo Aug 26 '12 at 22:38
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AMD System Monitor is pretty good. It gives you % CPU and GPU utilization.

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You can monitor NVidia GPUs with RivaTuner

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