Monitoring GPU operation

[sphinx99]

I have plenty of tools to tell me if my CPU cores are doing anything and if so, what.

I am struggling to find something that tells me what GPUs are doing.

Right now, if I absolutely want to be sure that hardware acceleration for 1080p playback of some media is happening, I can't unless I trust whatever codec or player I use to throw some icon somewhere.

Likewise if I download some Folding client or otherwise, I don't have much idea whether it's GPU accelerating or not without a significant amount of experimentation.

And if I need to know if a game is CPU or GPU limited, I have to benchmark multiple series at different resolutions and game settings to infer the bottleneck.

It would be nice to see a "task manager" for GPUs - obviously it would not look or behave the same way, but I think it's something that's needed.

Does it exist?

 

[MurderCityDevil]

apparently in rivatuner's hardware monitoring section there is a graph for "GPU usage". I don't have rivatuner installed but that's what a quick google search revealed.

 

[Zero82z]

You didn't say whether you're using an ATI or nVidia video card, but if it's an ATI, Catalyst Control Center has a GPU usage monitor under Overdrive.

 

[vjcsmoke]

Have you tried GPU-ID?

 

[Hypernova]

apparently in rivatuner's hardware monitoring section there is a graph for "GPU usage". I don't have rivatuner installed but that's what a quick google search revealed.

Rivatuner supports gpu usage graphs (for each core) for ATI cards only, it looks pretty much like your TaskManager graphs.