GPU-Viewer

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Testimonials

Softpedia

“GPU-Viewer can potentially be a very useful application in the right hands. There’s no denying the fact that it’s not the most beginner-friendly application out there, but the fact that it manages to bundle three very complex CLI tools into one functional GUI is definitely something I appreciate.” - Review by Vladimir Ciobica

Linux Magazine USA (Issue 254)

“GPU-Viewer is a clever combination of pre-existing tools, including glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo” - BY GRAHAM MORRISON

A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.

Packaging status

This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI. The project is being developed using python 3 pygobject with GTK4. All the important details are extracted using glxinfo/vulkaninfo/clinfo with the combination of grep, CAT , AWK commands and displayed in the front-end. There is no hard OpenGL Programming involved, until glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo works the GPU-viewer will also work

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INSTALLATION

Arch based distro

sudo pacman -S gpu-viewer

Debian & Ubuntu based distro

sudo apt install gpu-viewer

Make and install from the source

Install dependencies

Arch based distro

sudo pacman -S appstream-glib clinfo gtk4 libadwaita lsb-release mesa-utils meson python-gobject vdpauinfo vulkan-tools xorg-xdpyinfo

Debian & Ubuntu based distro

sudo apt install clinfo gawk gir1.2-adw-1 gir1.2-gtk-4.0 lsb-release mesa-opencl-icd mesa-utils meson python3-cairo python3-click python3-gi python3-gi-cairo vdpauinfo vulkan-tools x11-utils

Fedora based distro

sudo dnf install clinfo egl-utils mesa-demos mesa-vulkan-drivers meson python3-gobject vdpauinfo vulkan-tools

openSUSE based distro

sudo zypper install clinfo mesa-demo mesa-vulkan-device-select libvulkan_intel libvulkan_lvp libvulkan_radeon python3 libvdpau1 vulkan-tools xdpyinfo xev xlsatoms xlsclients xlsfonts xprop xvinfo xwininfo

Make & install GPU-viewer

  1. Download the latest tag.
  2. Extract it and go in to it.
  3. Open terminal and enter below commands
meson setup _build
cd _build
ninja install

UNINSTALL

Arch based distro

sudo pacman -R gpu-viewer

Debian & Ubuntu based distro

sudo apt remove gpu-viewer

What’s developed and available?

  1. OpenGL Tab - OpenGL Information, OpenGL ES Information, OpenGL hardware limits and Extensions displayed as per different Vendors, View GLX Frame Buffer Configuration and EGL information, EGL Information
  2. Vulkan Tab - Device Features, Device Limits, Device Extensions,Formats,Memory Types & Heaps, Partial Queue Families implemented, Instance and Layers,Surface Tab
  3. OpenCL Tab - Platform Details, Device Details , Device Memory & Image Details, Device Queue and Execution capabilities, Device Vector Details, Total No. of Platforms, No. of Devices for the platform.
  4. About Tab - About GPU Viewer Application, ability to report a bug,view license,view change log, Donate via paypal, GPU Viewer Github main page.

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

  1. General - Bug fixes, Code Optimizations (High Priority)

IMPORTANT

  1. For Vulkan Tab to work, nvidia, Mesa and AMD vulkan enabled drivers should be installed along with vulkan-utils
  2. For OpenCL Tab to work, install clinfo along with OpenCL drivers for your respective GPU’s

DEVELOPMENT/TEST ENVIRONMENT

  1. Operating System : Fedora 42
  2. Desktop : Gnome 48
  3. Kernel : 6.14.x-xx
  4. IDE : VSCode

SYSTEM SETUP

  1. MSI PE62 Laptop, Huawei Matebook 13 AMD
  2. Quad Core Intel Core i7-4710HQ, AMD Ryzen 3500 U
  3. Nvidia Gefore GTX 1050Ti (Discrete GPU) , Drivers - Nvidia (proprietary)/Mesa drivers
  4. Intel HD(R) Graphics 630, Drivers - MESA (Open Source)
  5. 8 GB RAM

If you find the project interesting enough, please consider making a donation. Even a small one would mean the world to me. More than a mere financial act, donate means that you simply believe in this project and want it to be better.

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