nvitop
Interactive NVIDIA GPU process viewer and monitor
TLDR
Launch the GPU monitor
$ nvitop
Run in monitor mode$ nvitop -m
SYNOPSIS
nvitop [options]
DESCRIPTION
nvitop is an interactive NVIDIA GPU process viewer and resource monitor. It displays real-time GPU utilization, memory usage, temperature, and process information in a TUI. Unlike nvidia-smi, nvitop queries device status using NVML Python bindings directly and provides interactive features like tree-view, environment variable viewing, and process filtering.
It also ships with nvisel, a CUDA device selection tool for deep learning researchers.
PARAMETERS
-m, --monitor
Run in continuous monitor mode (like htop).-o, --only VISIBLE
Show only GPU processes owned by the current user.
CAVEATS
Only works with NVIDIA GPUs. Requires NVIDIA drivers with NVML support.
HISTORY
nvitop was created by XuehaiPan and is written in Python. It works on both Linux and Windows.
SEE ALSO
nvidia-smi(1), nvtop(1), htop(1)
