🖥️nvidia-smi

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the nvidia-smi command with important options and switches using examples.

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# list all available NVIDIA devices
nvidia-smi -L

# list certain details about each GPU
nvidia-smi --query-gpu=index,name,uuid,serial --format=csv

# list GPU details
nvidia-smi -i 0 -q

# show system topology
nvidia-smi topo --matrix

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