Memory Brand/Type

[vtc81]

Hello guys! I've a question...
In Windows, it is possible to find out the brand of memory used in a GPU. GPU-Z is one tool that shows this information. Does the Linux driver provide any information that can give you similar insight into whether the memory used in the GPU is made by Samsung, Hynix, Micron, Elpida, etc.? I’ve checked output from nvidia-smi, lspci, /proc/driver/nvidia/gpu/…, glxinfo, etc. and haven’t really found anything that would indicate this other than perhaps some BIOS versions, but I couldn’t discern any sold pattern that would let you know this. Is this information supported in the Linux driver like it is in the Windows driver? I’m mostly working with the 455.45.10 driver right now.

[hartley]

Most of the OS-specific properties are not readily accessible by a program (or, at least, not by any standard all-in-one tool), but can be accessed by reading files in the /proc and /sys directory structures. For example, by reading /proc/cpu, you get a pretty exhaustive list of the CPU features on your system, while /proc/version gives you the detailed version of the Linux kernel, usually including the time it was compiled, the user who compiled it, and what compiler was used to compile it.
You also can try lshw - a tool that will scan the system and list out all hardware devices based on the diagnostic responses the equipment is designed to output.