Apple SMI

Apple Silicon System Management Interface

nvidia-smi like cli tool for Apple Silicon (macOS)

Overview

Lightweight macOS GPU inspector inspired by nvidia-smi. Shows GPU frequency / power / memory usage / utilization in a familiar table.

Quick start

Project is still high-speed developing, it is NOT stable now

Homebrew (Recommended)

If you have brew, you can:

brew install zlicdt/tap/apple-smi

Download

Go to Releases and download the prebuilt binary for your Mac.

Build from source

To build this, ensure the system have Rust toolchain and Cargo first.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/zlicdt/apple-smi
cargo build --release
sudo ./target/release/apple-smi

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Macs

• Because of use of powermetrics, this program needs root permissions to measure

  • Performance state
  • Frequency
  • GPU utilization
  • Processes

  Rootless is working in progress...

Tips

• Using of powermetrics means requires root permissions.
• Developing materials and documents placed in docs folder.

Test Run

cargo run

How it works

It shells out to system_profiler powermetrics ioreg, and get information from SMC.

Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome. Run cargo fmt and cargo clippy before sending changes.