{"id":15223,"date":"2025-12-03T16:49:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15223"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:10:16","slug":"use-steam-overlay-instead-of-windows-taskmanager-for-gpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15223","title":{"rendered":"Use Steam overlay instead of Windows Taskmanager for GPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"1fa46aae-dce1-41da-875d-fb813e8bef66-1\">The Steam client overlay got a recent patch [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/video-games\/pc-gaming\/steams-new-performance-overlay-is-more-accurate-than-task-manager-says-valve-gpu-utilization-monitoring-comes-directly-to-steam-in-latest-client-beta#xenforo-comments-3884863\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/video-games\/pc-gaming\/steams-new-performance-overlay-is-more-accurate-than-task-manager-says-valve-gpu-utilization-monitoring-comes-directly-to-steam-in-latest-client-beta#xenforo-comments-3884863\">Tomshardware<\/a>] that introduced frame-level granularity like\u00a0distinguishing between native frames and those generated by DLSS\/FSR, alongside real-time readings of CPU load, RAM usage, clock speeds, and frame timing graphs. Those features have already transformed Steam\u2019s HUD into one of the most comprehensive in-game instruments\u2014effectively matching tools like MangoHud and MSI\u2019s RivaTuner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A beta was released, but quickly rolled back, that claimed to be better than Task Manager. The claim was that Task Manager can be inaccurate because it measures GPU usage on a per-process basis and relies on the GPU driver to report statistics according to the WDDM specification. Games that split work across multiple processes can therefore have portions of their GPU activity missed, and certain workloads can appear less intensive than they actually are. By aggregating usage across all related processes, Steam\u2019s overlay purported to give a fuller and more precise picture of a game\u2019s GPU demands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steam client overlay got a recent patch [Tomshardware] that introduced frame-level granularity like\u00a0distinguishing between native frames and those generated by DLSS\/FSR, alongside real-time readings of CPU load, RAM usage, clock speeds, and frame timing graphs. Those features have already transformed Steam\u2019s HUD into one of the most comprehensive in-game instruments\u2014effectively matching tools like MangoHud and MSI\u2019s RivaTuner. A beta was released, but quickly rolled back, that claimed to be better than Task Manager. The claim was that Task Manager&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15223\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Xx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15224,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions\/15224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}