Users who are looking for a good alternative to the popular system tool CPU-Z under Linux will find what they are looking for in the equally powerful open source application CPU-X, which is developed by the X.Org Foundation is maintained and offered for download via the developer platform GitHub. The GUI of the app relies on the free toolkit GTK.
Read CPU, GPU, RAM and more under Linux
The comprehensive processor tool CPU-X, which is released under the open source license GNU GPL v3, can be run both in a graphical mode via the free GUI toolkit GTK and via the command line and is in the latest version 4.4 available as source code and AppImage. In addition to Linux, the open source operating system FreeBSD is also supported.
CPU-X is by no means limited to reading out the CPU specifications and provides extensive information on the following hardware components:
- Caches
- Processor
- Mainboard
- Memory
- Graphics card
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- System
In addition to real-time information, benchmarks for the CPU and the GPU as well as the RAM and the mass storage are integrated into the system tool.
Quite simply install from the sources
The current version of CPU-X can now be easily downloaded from the sources of numerous distributions such as Debian 11 (“Bullseye”), Fedora 36 Workstation, openSUSE Leap and Ubuntu 22.04 Install LTS (“Jammy Jellyfish”). On Debian and Ubuntu, the following command is enough to bring CPU-X to the SSD.
apt install cpu-x
The project also provides detailed instructions for users who want to compile the tool themselves from the source code, as well as a well-maintained wiki with lots of background information.
Use CPU-X via the command line
In addition to the graphical mode, which is particularly useful for less is the first choice for experienced users, CPU-X 4.4 can also be executed directly via the command line. Both the free C program library Ncurses and Coredump are available for this purpose.
The YouTuber Brodie Robertson presents CPU-X 4.4 and its feature set in detail and provides corresponding impressions.
For more information, see the official website and the project page on the GitHub developer platform.< /p>