Title, I am unsure if games are using my GPU or if using my CPU, or maybe my GPU through my CPU, I do not know, something is using my GPU, but I think its just KDE plasma, and I would like to know definitively how to find out
Since you’re on KDE, plasma-systemmonitor should already be installed. It is the closest to the Windows task manager that you’re probably familiar with.
nvtopwill show you what processes are using your GPU.Thanks til. After 30+ years using Linux exclusively. That is very useful.
Admittedly GPUs were not a thing when I started. It’s cool to learn new useful things. Thanks.
Thanks for the tip! I wasn’t aware of nvtop, and I’m thoroughly pleased that’s no longer the case.
+1 for nvtop, helped me check my vram usage
I use Bumblebee and ensure my game is the only thing that gets the GPU by running only it through
optirun(AMD support is probably not coming soon)I also use
tasksetto ensure that only my game gets physical CPU cores, and everything else gets efficiency CPU cores
