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Troubleshooting: Video Card

This section covers different tools which can help in identifying issues concerning video card performance such as active power states, core and memory clocks, throttling reasons, gpu temps and fan speeds.

NVIDIA System Management Interface (nvidia-smi)

All Nvidia driver installations come with a built-in tool called NVIDIA System Management Interface (nvidia-smi), it allows you get realtime information about your graphics card which include:

There are many different use cases so we'll just cover a few useful commands and scenarios, for a complete list use nvidia-smi --help

Operating system path for nvidia-smi tool may change during each driver installation and can be found in the Windows DriverStore file repository:

Commands