A lightweight system tray application that monitors NVIDIA GPU VRAM usage in real-time. Perfect for AI/ML developers, LLM users, and anyone who needs to keep an eye on their GPU memory usage without opening Task Manager.
- Real-time VRAM usage monitoring with minimal system impact (0.1% CPU usage, 12MB memory footprint)
- Customizable display options:
- Percentage display
- Visual bar representation
- Both percentage and bar
- Customizable colors for bar and text
- Adjustable update interval (100ms to 120s)
- Customizable bar dimensions
- Error logging to file
- System tray integration
- Portable application (single executable)
- Ollama model management:
- Stop specific models
- Stop all running models
- Quick VRAM freeing for LLM applications
- Windows 10
- NVIDIA GPU with NVIDIA drivers installed (requires NVIDIA-SMI support)
- Python 3.11.9 (for development)
- Download the latest release from the releases page
- Extract the executable file
- Run
gpu_monitor.exe
- The application will appear in your system tray or near it (bottom right).
- Double-click the bar and drag to your system tray.
- Click and drag the corners to resize (or change in options).
- Right-click the tray icon to access the menu
- Select "Options" to customize:
- Update interval
- Display mode (percentage, bar, or both)
- Bar dimensions
- Bar and text colors
- Temperature unit (Celsius/Fahrenheit)
The application includes special features for Ollama users:
- View all running Ollama models
- Stop specific models to free VRAM
- Stop all models with one click
- Perfect for managing multiple LLM applications
If the application encounters any errors, they will be logged to gpu_monitor_error.log in the same directory as the executable.
To run from source:
-
Install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt -
Run the application:
python gpu_monitor.py
To build the executable:
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Install PyInstaller:
pip install pyinstaller -
Build the executable:
pyinstaller --onefile --windowed gpu_monitor.py
The executable will be created in the dist directory.
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- GPU memory usage windows
- How to monitor VRAM usage
- NVIDIA memory monitor
- GPU memory tracker
- System tray GPU monitor
- Real-time VRAM usage
- Graphics card memory usage
- NVIDIA GPU monitoring tool
- Windows GPU memory tool
- VRAM usage tracker
- Ollama memory management
- LLM memory monitoring
- AI development tools
- Machine learning GPU monitor
- NVIDIA-SMI monitoring tool
- Lightweight GPU monitor
- System tray utilities
- GPU memory utilities
- NVIDIA GPU tools
- Memory usage monitoring
MIT License