How can I check the performance of an AMD Radeon GPU on Ubuntu 20.04?

Question

I want to check whether my AMD Radeon GPU performs close to the manufacturer's indicated performance.

How can I do this?

Irsu85 · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-22T07:13:44.890

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You can install the command line utility "radeontop" to check the status of radeon graphics cards. You can install it using sudo apt install radeontop and run it using sudo radeontop

Edit, removed parts that somebody removed from question.

edited Aug 22 '21 at 07:13

answered Aug 13 '21 at 16:40

Irsu85

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There was a lot of questions. The main question was about the GPU. I managed to run radeontop. I am not sure as yet which of the indicators to look at. I ll ask a question on this if I cant figure out. Thx a lot for taking the time. – Yann Monnier Aug 19 '21 at 16:10
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Just FYI the question has been edited to make it suitable for the format of the site. You may feel like editing your answer (but it's fine if you don't). – Zanna Aug 21 '21 at 15:17
Thats actually a good idea zanna, ill do that. – Irsu85 Aug 22 '21 at 07:12
See also amdgpu_top. – Matthias Braun Jul 17 '24 at 00:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '25 at 16:47

rocm-smi

Another option is:

sudo apt install rocm-smi
rocm-smi

gives me:

=========================================== ROCm System Management Interface ===========================================
===================================================== Concise Info =====================================================
Device  Node  IDs              Temp    Power     Partitions          SCLK  MCLK    Fan  Perf  PwrCap       VRAM%  GPU%  
              (DID,     GUID)  (Edge)  (Socket)  (Mem, Compute, ID)                                                     
========================================================================================================================
0       1     0x15bf,   42073  53.0°C  38.176W   N/A, N/A, 0         None  800Mhz  0%   auto  Unsupported  15%    68%   
========================================================================================================================
================================================= End of ROCm SMI Log ==================================================

on Ubuntu 25.04, Lenovo ThinkPad P14s which has a Radeon 780M iGPU.

You can try to ramp usage up with one of: How to perform a detailed and quick 3D performance test Here I did:

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How can I check the performance of an AMD Radeon GPU on Ubuntu 20.04?

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