Alternatives to nvtop

Watch GPU activity in a terminal interface. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as nvtop.

  • btop++

    A terminal resource monitor that looks good enough to leave open, with processes, CPU, memory, disks, network and GPUs.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOSLinuxCommand line

    btop++ shows GPU monitoring on supported hardware alongside processes, CPU, memory, disks and network in one terminal screen, under Apache-2.0 on Linux and macOS.

  • Mission Center

    A Linux system monitor that looks like the Windows Task Manager, which is exactly the point.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Mission Center is a Linux-only graphical GTK4 desktop app rather than a terminal tool, showing GPU usage for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA cards in a Task Manager layout.

  • nvitop

    Interactive terminal viewer for NVIDIA GPUs and the processes running on them.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    nvitop supports NVIDIA GPUs only and Linux only, but adds interactive process management and an exporter for metrics collection.

  • amdgpu_top

    A Linux tool that shows AMD GPU utilization, clocks, sensors and per-process usage in a terminal or window.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    amdgpu_top is limited to AMD GPUs on Linux, offering hardware counter detail, per-process usage, a graphical view and JSON output.

Also worth comparing

These listings name nvtop as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • RadeonTop

    Terminal tool that shows AMD Radeon GPU utilization, overall and per hardware block.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    nvtop shows GPU activity in a terminal for multiple supported accelerators and also runs on macOS, though available metrics depend on the GPU and installed driver.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.