Microsoft VP Releases Open-Source GPU Task Manager to Track VRAM Use

Microsoft Vice President Scott Hanselman has released a new open-source tool called gputaskman to show detailed information about how computer graphics hardware is used. The project helps users see every process running on a graphics processing unit, how much memory each task consumes, and specific details about artificial intelligence workloads.

Hanselman explained on social media that he built the software to figure out where his system's graphics memory was going. Example screenshots show that the tool presents a terminal-like display with live charts for graphics load, memory use, and temperature. When inspecting specific applications, such as a local server running artificial intelligence software, the display breaks down the exact model weights, cache size, and parameter counts.

The experimental software is available on GitHub under a permissive MIT license and runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Hanselman has also hinted in social media comments that similar expanded monitoring features could eventually come to Windows as a standard feature.

Summary

As computers handle heavier graphics and artificial intelligence tasks, understanding how memory is shared becomes harder. This open-source tool gives users a direct way to see which programs use their hardware resources.