T here are some great tools for probing, tweaking and otherwise tinkering with GPU on Linux. Most of these are vendor-specific. Intel provide a number of utilities via the intel-gputools package. Once installed you can run $ sudo intel_gpu_top to see how busy your GPU is, how much power it’s using, whether hardware video codecs are in use and more. It’s also handy if you get confused about which ‘Gen’ your graphics are. If only we’d known about it two pages back…
INTEL MIXES THINGS UP
AMD’s on Windows enables you to overclock your GPU and its memory, as well as tweak fan profiles. on Linux makes it possible to do exactly the same thing, but probably with much less bloat. is available on Fedora, Arch Linux’s AUR orFor Ubuntu there’s a handy PPA ( where you’ll also find newer builds of Mesa, libdrm and the driver for .
