Sometimes to troubleshoot or some other purpose, you want to know which graphics card do you installed in your computer. In Ubuntu you have several command options to check the installed Graphics Card on your system without using any third party tools.In this article i will show you a some useful Linux commands to get your Graphics Card information without opening your computer.
Open your terminal application tool (ctrl+alt+t) and run below command to update the latest PCI ID list.
This is not necessary to view your GPU details. If you have internet connection then do this.
sudo update-pciids
Next in your terminal run this command.
Method 1:
sudo lshw -c video
Method 2:
glxinfo -B
or
glxinfo | grep Device
Method 3:
lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'
or
lspci | grep -i --color 'vga\|3d\|2d'
You can also view the details by navigating Settings->About in your Ubuntu system.
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