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gpu/

Install nvidia drivers

Verify your GPU:

/sbin/lspci | grep -e VGA

Make sure you:

disabled Wayland
disabled Secure Boot

Make sure you system is up to date (reboot if something was installed):

sudo dnf update -y

Install nvidia driver:

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
sudo dnf install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

Wait until kernel module is compiled.

Enable video acceleration and some extras:

sudo dnf install vdpauinfo libva-vdpau-driver libva-utils xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda

Reboot system.

Verify that nouveau driver is disabled:

lsmod |grep nouveau

linux fedora gpu | 20 Feb 2021

top-like application for intel GPU

Top-like application to monitor performance of intel GPU:

sudo dnf install igt-gpu-tools
sudo intel_gpu_top

Playing 4k video sample on youtube (intel i3-8100T):

intel-gpu-top: Intel Coffeelake (Gen9) @ /dev/dri/card0 - 1063/1083 MHz;    1% RC6;  7.35/19.18 W;      467 irqs/s

      IMC reads:     6889 MiB/s
     IMC writes:     3901 MiB/s

          ENGINE      BUSY                                      MI_SEMA MI_WAIT
     Render/3D/0   98.29% |██████████████████████████████████▍|      0%      0%
       Blitter/0    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%
         Video/0    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%
  VideoEnhance/0    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%

Playing the same video in 1080p (intel i3-8100T)::

intel-gpu-top: Intel Coffeelake (Gen9) @ /dev/dri/card0 -  591/ 591 MHz;   30% RC6;  3.06/ 6.47 W;      474 irqs/s

      IMC reads:     4058 MiB/s
     IMC writes:     2654 MiB/s

          ENGINE      BUSY                                      MI_SEMA MI_WAIT
     Render/3D/0   55.64% |███████████████████▍               |      0%      0%
       Blitter/0    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%
         Video/0    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%
  VideoEnhance/0    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%

linux gpu youtube intel | 18 Jan 2021