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NVIDIA (Nvidia Corporation, /ɛnˈvɪdiə/), founded in January 1993, is a fabless semiconductor company that designs and sells graphics processors. NVIDIA will also design the core of game consoles, such as Xbox and PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. NVIDIA's most famous product line is the GeForce series designed for individuals and gamers, the Quadro series designed for professional CGI workstations, and the Tesla series designed for servers and efficient computing. Although it started in the graphics card business of PC computers, Nvidia It was also involved in the design of the mobile chip Tegra, but the smart machine market did not respond much to this. However, in recent years, it has used these research and development experiences to develop towards the market of artificial intelligence and machine vision. It is also the invention of CUDA, an important development tool for graphics processors. By. However, NVIDIA's development process is also subject to constant criticism. The criticisms are mostly focused on the abuse of exclusive business cooperation, improper marketing methods, and rejection of the industry's open standards and free software movement. [1]
1. Basic concepts
An NVIDIA driver is software that enables a computer's operating system (such as Ubuntu) to communicate with the NVIDIA graphics hardware. Drivers are responsible for passing information between the computer and the graphics card so that the graphics card can properly perform tasks such as graphics rendering and calculations.
2. Operation steps
1. Use the nvidia-smi command
nvidia-smi
Summarize
Open Terminal.
Type the nvidia-smi command and press Enter. This will display information about your NVIDIA GPU, including memory usage, temperature, power, etc.