# Installing nvidia-smi on L4T

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/installing-nvidia-smi-on-l4t/39784>\
**Category:** Jetson TK1\
**Created:** [October 9, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/installing-nvidia-smi-on-l4t/39784 "2015-10-09T11:58:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![enienws](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@enienws](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/enienws)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/installing-nvidia-smi-on-l4t/39784/1 "2015-10-09T11:58:39Z")

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I have flashed the latest version of L4T to my Jetson board. I have b een looking for nvidia-smi tool but I cannot find that utility. How could one install nvidia-smi tool?  
Regards.

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**Author:** ![kulve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/kulve/32/9688_2.png) [@kulve](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/kulve)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/installing-nvidia-smi-on-l4t/39784/2 "2015-10-09T15:31:21Z")

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nvidia-smi is only for the desktop GPUs. I don’t think it can do anything on Tegra.

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**Author:** ![enienws](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@enienws](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/enienws)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/installing-nvidia-smi-on-l4t/39784/3 "2015-10-12T09:07:25Z")

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Hmm, So how can one get GPU usage statistics of Tegra K1. What is the preferred way to do this?

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**Author:** ![glo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/glo/32/9688_2.png) [@glo](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/glo)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/installing-nvidia-smi-on-l4t/39784/4 "2015-10-29T16:06:22Z")

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enienws,  
You could use tegrastats tool.

sudo ./tegrastats  
the result will look like:  
RAM 451/1892MB (lfb 188x4MB) cpu [13%,off,off,off]@51 EMC 32%@102 AVP 0%@204 VDE 120 GR3D 0%@72 EDP limit 0

and check the GR3D for GPU usage.