No. 17 of 58 ·Hardware Monitoring Software

AMD SMI

Linux · Self-hosted · API

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Two barsScore 6.3

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

AMD SMI is ranked #17 of 58 in hardware monitoring software on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted. There is a free plan.

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AMD SMI Free Linux deployment · Requires supported AMD hardware and drivers rocm.docs.amd.com · 5 Oct 2026

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The record

Purpose: AMD SMI is a user-space library and tool for managing and monitoring GPUs, controlling GPU operations, and retrieving driver and GPU information.
Interfaces: It provides C++, Python, and Go interfaces, plus the amd-smi command-line tool.
Telemetry: The CLI summary can report GPU memory and graphics utilization, temperature, ECC errors, power use, fan speed, and partition mode.
Hardware: The documented supported devices include AMD GPUs on Linux bare metal and Linux virtual machine guests, as well as AMD EPYC CPUs through esmi_ib_library.
Installation: AMD SMI is included with most Linux ROCm Core SDK installations and can also be installed as the standalone amdrocm-amdsmi package.
Requirements: The GPU path requires the amdgpu-dkms driver; CPU discovery and CPU commands require amd_hsmp or hsmp_acpi, and Python and the CLI require 64-bit Python 3.6.8 or later.
Integration: AMD SMI exposes public APIs for discovering and querying NICs, and its CLI can list, monitor, inspect metrics for, and show topology for supported NIC backends.
Partitioning: On select AMD Instinct GPUs, it can configure compute and HBM memory partitions to divide a physical GPU into logical devices.
Partition limits: Changing GPU partition settings requires root or sudo privileges and an idle GPU; memory partition changes also require a driver reload.
Compatibility limit: A mismatch between the amdgpu driver and AMD SMI release can make some telemetry fields unavailable or report as N/A.
Intended users: The documentation describes AMD SMI for application developers and system users managing AMD hardware, particularly in high-performance computing environments.
Company: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. says it was founded in 1969 and identifies Santa Clara, California as its headquarters.
Price from: Free

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rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/amdsmi/en/latest/index.html· checked 5 Oct 2026
rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/amdsmi/en/latest/how-to/amdsmi· checked 5 Oct 2026
rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/amdsmi/en/latest/install/insta· checked 5 Oct 2026
rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/amdsmi/en/develop/how-to/amdsm· checked 5 Oct 2026
rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/amdsmi/en/docs-7.14.0/conceptu· checked 5 Oct 2026
amd.com/en/corporate.html· checked 5 Oct 2026