AMD SMI
The facts below are what the maker publishes about AMD SMI, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From AMD SMI's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| AMD SMI | Free | Linux deployment · Requires supported AMD hardware and drivers |
The facts
Each one read from AMD SMI's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- Company
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. says it was founded in 1969 and identifies Santa Clara, California as its headquarters.checked 5 Oct 2026
What it does
- Compatibility limit
- A mismatch between the amdgpu driver and AMD SMI release can make some telemetry fields unavailable or report as N/A.checked 5 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Installation
- AMD SMI is included with most Linux ROCm Core SDK installations and can also be installed as the standalone amdrocm-amdsmi package.checked 5 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The documentation describes AMD SMI for application developers and system users managing AMD hardware, particularly in high-performance computing environments.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- It provides C++, Python, and Go interfaces, plus the amd-smi command-line tool.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Partitioning
- On select AMD Instinct GPUs, it can configure compute and HBM memory partitions to divide a physical GPU into logical devices.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Partition limits
- Changing GPU partition settings requires root or sudo privileges and an idle GPU; memory partition changes also require a driver reload.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- AMD SMI is a user-space library and tool for managing and monitoring GPUs, controlling GPU operations, and retrieving driver and GPU information.checked 5 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- AMD SMI accesses local hardware through installed drivers and libraries; the documentation instructs users to configure GPU access permissions during ROCm prerequisites and does not state product-specific security certifications.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Telemetry
- The CLI summary can report GPU memory and graphics utilization, temperature, ECC errors, power use, fan speed, and partition mode.checked 5 Oct 2026
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