AMD SMI documentation

The AMD System Management Interface (AMD SMI) library offers a unified tool for managing and monitoring GPUs, particularly in high-performance computing environments. It provides a user-space interface that allows applications to control GPU operations, monitor performance, and retrieve information about the system’s drivers and GPUs.

Find the source code at ROCm/amdsmi.

Note

AMD SMI is the successor to ROCm/rocm_smi_lib.

Install

• Library and CLI tool installation

• Build from source

How to

• C++ library usage

• Python library usage

• Go library usage

• CLI tool usage

• Use AMD SMI in a Docker container

Reference

• C++ API

  • Modules

  • Files

  • Globals

  • Data structures

  • Data fields

• Python API

• Go API

Tutorials

• AMD SMI examples (GitHub)

• AMD SMI CLI walkthrough

To learn about contributing to AMD SMI, see Contibuting to AMD SMI. To contribute to the documentation, see Contributing to ROCm documentation.

Find ROCm licensing information on the Licensing page.