TechPowerUp GPU-Z v2.12.0 released today with useful new features and several stability updates. We worked extensively on the ability of GPU-Z to detect fake NVIDIA graphics cards (i.e cards not really having the GPU advertised on the box). GPU-Z now prepends “FAKE” to the Graphics Card name field, and lights up with a caution triangle.
This capability is forward compatible for the supported GPUs (listed in the changelog), so for example, it will be able to detect a fake RTX 2060, which in reality uses a GK106 GPU. The second big feature is the ability to extract and upload graphics card BIOS of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 graphics cards. Graphics cards with multiple independent fans (each with its own speed control) are gaining popularity, and we’ve added the ability to read and log fan-speeds of individual fans on NVIDIA “Turing” graphics cards that support the feature, in addition to fan speed percentage monitoring.
Our feature-rich “Advanced” tab now also shows information on HDMI and DisplayPort connectors of your graphics cards. Power-draw on NVIDIA graphics cards is now reported both as a percentage of TDP and as an absolute value in Watts. Among the bugs fixed are a system hang due to Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) kicking in when GPU-Z is running in the background; memory bandwidth reading on RTX 2080 & RTX 2080 Ti with GDDR6 memory, AMD Radeon RX 400-series GPU utilization monitoring, and improved texts for system memory usage sensors.
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The change-log follows.
- Added detection for fake graphics cards using old relabeled NVIDIA GPUs (G84, G86, G92, G94, G96, GT215, GT216, GT218, GF108, GF106, GF114, GF116, GF119, GK106)
- Added BIOS saving capability for NVIDIA Turing
- Added monitoring for multiple fans on Turing
- Added fan speed % monitoring on Turing
- Added HDMI and DisplayPort info to Advanced -> NVIDIA
- Power draw on NVIDIA cards is now reported in both TDP % and Watt
- Fixed system hang caused by Valve anti-cheat
- Fixed memory bandwidth on Turing with GDDR6
- Fixed tooltip for system memory usage sensor
- Fixed broken Radeon RX 400 GPU usage monitoring on newer drivers
