It took a while, but I've now implemented a database of GPU Models from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA for you to choose from for your PC Info. This means we can soon do a graph of what GPUs people use! So from the 1st of August with the next refreshed user statistics information, we will have a GPU graph!
As a result of these changes, any GPU Model you previously entered manually has been wiped (lots of weird spellings). Sorry, but it's the easiest way to make it accurate going forward. Now you only need to enter a couple characters and it will search and hopefully find your exact model for you to click.
I'm not currently including NVIDIA Quadro, because that's a workstation card. Same for the AMD FirePro stuff. However, if we get repeated requests to add them in, I might, but I doubt they're that used in our audience. I bet you will surprise me though...
If we really are missing a proper GPU, let me know in the comments. I would be surprised, since we have over 500 in the database.
If you've no idea what I'm talking about: see the user statistics page here for all the goodness. You can see the most popular distribution, desktop environment, RAM and so on. You can set your details through the User Control Panel, specifically this page. It's updated on the 1st of every month, with whatever people have given as their current information.
I know, exciting stuff, right? It's going to be interesting to see what the most popular GPU is amongst our readers.
Totally unrelated, but I also added the ability for anyone to hide the announcement bars above the news. Just click the little cross and it will set a cookie for 60 days to not show it. I went with that method so regular visitors who don't login, can also hide them. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
As a result of these changes, any GPU Model you previously entered manually has been wiped (lots of weird spellings). Sorry, but it's the easiest way to make it accurate going forward. Now you only need to enter a couple characters and it will search and hopefully find your exact model for you to click.
I'm not currently including NVIDIA Quadro, because that's a workstation card. Same for the AMD FirePro stuff. However, if we get repeated requests to add them in, I might, but I doubt they're that used in our audience. I bet you will surprise me though...
If we really are missing a proper GPU, let me know in the comments. I would be surprised, since we have over 500 in the database.
If you've no idea what I'm talking about: see the user statistics page here for all the goodness. You can see the most popular distribution, desktop environment, RAM and so on. You can set your details through the User Control Panel, specifically this page. It's updated on the 1st of every month, with whatever people have given as their current information.
I know, exciting stuff, right? It's going to be interesting to see what the most popular GPU is amongst our readers.
Totally unrelated, but I also added the ability for anyone to hide the announcement bars above the news. Just click the little cross and it will set a cookie for 60 days to not show it. I went with that method so regular visitors who don't login, can also hide them. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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no_information_here 28 Jul 2017
For anyone not sure about what model GPU they're running, something like the following may help:Hmm. Not so useful in my case (Neon/Ubuntu 16.04). For "lspci | grep VGA" I get:
lspci | grep VGA
(that assumes you have lspci available of course)
GLX can also query information:
glxinfo | grep Device
There are other ways as well, depending on the distro used. I'm not really up to speed on all the graphical tools available, so I encourage people to suggest alternatives.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c82 (rev a1)
...which probably doesn't help for this survey. For glxinfo I get nothing. In the Nvidia control panel, it tells me the card model on the "XScreen 0" tab. Your instructions may be more revealing for people running Mesa?
(I knew my card, but wanted work it out from scratch like you suggested).
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Looks good!
You seem to be missing my GPU's model: GeForce GTX 970Ti, which is surprising because I'm pretty sure you had one yourself previously. :P
You seem to be missing my GPU's model: GeForce GTX 970Ti, which is surprising because I'm pretty sure you had one yourself previously. :P
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Looks good!The 970, 980 and 980ti are all in there. There's no such card as a 970ti.
You seem to be missing my GPU's model: GeForce GTX 970Ti, which is surprising because I'm pretty sure you had one yourself previously. :P
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So I have a AMD Firepro M4000 in my motebook, which is pretty much identical to the AMD Radeon 7770M.
Neither of those are in the database.
Neither of those are in the database.
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GustyGhost 28 Jul 2017
Liam, you have been gathering this info long enough to have some meaningful trend data by now. Has anybody put it to use yet?
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I've gone ahead and now added in:
- The entire Radeon HD 7xxxM series
- The entire Radeon HD 6xxxM series
- The entire Radeon HD 7xxxM series
- The entire Radeon HD 6xxxM series
Liam, you have been gathering this info long enough to have some meaningful trend data by now. Has anybody put it to use yet?I've seen developers pass the data around on Twitter a few times, I've also seen the link thrown on the Steam forum multiple times too :)
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tuxintuxedo 28 Jul 2017
You might want to try the update-pciids command (maybe sudo is needed).For anyone not sure about what model GPU they're running, something like the following may help:Hmm. Not so useful in my case (Neon/Ubuntu 16.04). For "lspci | grep VGA" I get:
lspci | grep VGA
(that assumes you have lspci available of course)
GLX can also query information:
glxinfo | grep Device
There are other ways as well, depending on the distro used. I'm not really up to speed on all the graphical tools available, so I encourage people to suggest alternatives.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c82 (rev a1)
...which probably doesn't help for this survey. For glxinfo I get nothing. In the Nvidia control panel, it tells me the card model on the "XScreen 0" tab. Your instructions may be more revealing for people running Mesa?
(I knew my card, but wanted work it out from scratch like you suggested).
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If you use Steam you can also click Help -> System Information (upper left corner). This will give you a nice list with hard- and software infos.
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Looks good!The 970, 980 and 980ti are all in there. There's no such card as a 970ti.
You seem to be missing my GPU's model: GeForce GTX 970Ti, which is surprising because I'm pretty sure you had one yourself previously. :P
Oh wow, that's embarassing. I've had "970Ti" in various signatures since I got it three years ago.. I just checked my ebuyer orders, and sure enough, it's just a 970.
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More additions
- Mobility Radeon HD 5xxx series
- Mobility Radeon HD 5xxv series
- AMD HD 6xxxD - APU series
- AMD HD 7xxxD - APU series
- AMD HD 8xxxD - APU series
- AMD R3 (HD 8xxx) - APU series
- Mobility Radeon HD 5xxx series
- Mobility Radeon HD 5xxv series
- AMD HD 6xxxD - APU series
- AMD HD 7xxxD - APU series
- AMD HD 8xxxD - APU series
- AMD R3 (HD 8xxx) - APU series
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Philadelphus 28 Jul 2017
OK, updated mine. :)
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For anyone not sure about what model GPU they're running, something like the following may help:Hmm. Not so useful in my case (Neon/Ubuntu 16.04). For "lspci | grep VGA" I get:
lspci | grep VGA
(that assumes you have lspci available of course)
GLX can also query information:
glxinfo | grep Device
There are other ways as well, depending on the distro used. I'm not really up to speed on all the graphical tools available, so I encourage people to suggest alternatives.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1c82 (rev a1)
...which probably doesn't help for this survey. For glxinfo I get nothing. In the Nvidia control panel, it tells me the card model on the "XScreen 0" tab. Your instructions may be more revealing for people running Mesa?
(I knew my card, but wanted work it out from scratch like you suggested).
Probably you are using a laptop with switchable graphics? Intel Hd and Nvidia
If you didn't set Bumblebee or Nvidia Prime probably that's why you can't see your gpu
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For anyone not sure about what model GPU they're running, something like the following may help:
lspci | grep VGA
(that assumes you have lspci available of course)
GLX can also query information:
glxinfo | grep Device
There are other ways as well, depending on the distro used. I'm not really up to speed on all the graphical tools available, so I encourage people to suggest alternatives.
--edit: and cheers Liam!
While lspci works fine for me (not that I didn't know my own GPU), glxinfo doesn't have a "Device" line for me. In my case, this also gives my GPU:
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer string"
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soulsource 29 Jul 2017
Including Quadro/FireGL might actually be reasonable for laptop users. Laptop manufacturers tend to only sell regular GeForce or Radeon chips in their lowest quality, ultra-cheap models.
If one wants a somewhat acceptable build quality (think: sufficient cooling, so that the laptop case does not start to melt when gaming...), one is either stuck with integrated graphics, or one has to buy a device with a workstation graphics chip...
If one wants a somewhat acceptable build quality (think: sufficient cooling, so that the laptop case does not start to melt when gaming...), one is either stuck with integrated graphics, or one has to buy a device with a workstation graphics chip...
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Blauer_Hunger 29 Jul 2017
Are there plans for to add feature like this for CPUs as well?
And btw it's really funny that you can select AMD Geforce GTX cards :D
And btw it's really funny that you can select AMD Geforce GTX cards :D
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PublicNuisance 29 Jul 2017
Updated. Great idea, thanks for the work.
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Are there plans for to add feature like this for CPUs as well?
And btw it's really funny that you can select AMD Geforce GTX cards :D
For CPUs, yes probably in future. If this feature works well, the same can be rolled out to CPUs.
As for the second bit, I'm going to eventually make it so if you actually pick your GPU vendor, it will only search in that list.
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