Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

GPU activity monitor??

DoFoT9

DoFoT9

macrumors P6
Original poster
Jun 11, 2007
17,586
100
London, United Kingdom
is there such thing?? i was just wondering and i couldnt find nething on the net.. you guys are the next best thing..........


ok ok. you ARE the best thing :D

DoFoT9
 
Go into applications, then utilities - Activity Monitor gives you all the info you want. Alternatively if you want a widget - iStat/iStat Pro are pretty good

[sorry read CPU instead of GPU]
 
Don't think so since most of the time, if the GPU is hard at work it means you're running a game or watching some high bitrate h.264 HD content or something which also means that its fullscreen. So, not much point I guess
 
hhmmm true... ahwell just wanted to know. seeing what tasks the GPU did like what the CPU, how much ram its using does would be interesting.
 
DoFoT9 said:
oh great tip thanks, so im guessing the program would use the OpenGL Driver Monitor, but just give a GUI output??
Click to expand...

atMonitor uses the same APIs as "OpenGL Driver Monitor" and it's a stand alone application. It is not a GUI on top of "OpenGL Driver Monitor"

You can quickly launch "OpenGL Driver Monitor" from atMonitor's "Utilities->Launch" menu in case you need more detailed GPU info.
 
DoFoT9 said:
EXCELLENT!! thankyou times a billion! how does it even monitor GPU usage? and how does FPS work.. is it an average or something?
Click to expand...

The FPS is the instantaneous FPS, and not an average, sampled at 1 second intervals.
 
mettar said:
atMonitor uses the same APIs as "OpenGL Driver Monitor" and it's a stand alone application. It is not a GUI on top of "OpenGL Driver Monitor"

You can quickly launch "OpenGL Driver Monitor" from atMonitor's "Utilities->Launch" menu in case you need more detailed GPU info.
Click to expand...

aahh ok i see i see. thanks for that.

i dont have "OpenGL Driver Monitor" installed so i cant launch it.

mettar said:
The FPS is the instantaneous FPS, and not an average, sampled at 1 second intervals.
Click to expand...

righto that makes more sense, works pretty much like FRAPs the im guessing. thanks :)

EDIT: oh and btw my GPU usage isnt working anymore :(
 
[EDIT: oh and btw my GPU usage isnt working anymore :(
Click to expand...

Would you mind sending an email to bugs@atpurpose.com explaining what happened? You can use the atMonitor's "Beta->Submit a bug report" menu as a shortcut. And if you could attach your System's profile, or at least the part of it that shows your GPU info, then that would be great.
 
trancepriest said:
Is this app working for any Mac Pro Nehalem users? The GPU section is not working on a MP Nehalem with ATI 4870.
Click to expand...

i know this doesnt apply for Nehalem users at all (sorry, i cant be of any help), but the GPU monitor is ONLY working for me when I am running off battery power. it refuses to work on the mains..

im not sure why :(
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back