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

• CLI tool usage

Reference

• C++ API

  • Modules

  • Files

  • Globals

  • Data structures

  • Data fields

• Python API

Tutorials

• AMD SMI examples (GitHub)

• ROCm SMI examples (GitHub)

To contribute to the documentation, refer to Contributing to ROCm.

Find ROCm licensing information on the Licensing page.

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