cpuid Alternatives

cpuid is described as 'Dumps detailed information about the CPU(s) gathered from the CPUID instruction, and also determines the exact model of CPU(s)' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to cpuid for a variety of platforms, including Linux, GNOME, MATE, Xfce and KDE Plasma apps. The best cpuid alternative is GNOME Disks, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like cpuid are Hardinfo, lshw, hwinfo and inxi.

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cpuid alternatives page was last updated Apr 15, 2020
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  1. GNOME Disks icon
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    Efficiently manage disk functions like inspecting, partitioning, and formatting. Utilize disk imaging and backup, S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, and encryption. Integrates well with Linux, particularly GNOME, offering RAID setups and benchmarking tools, compatible with various file systems.

    34 GNOME Disks alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME

    GNOME Disks Features

    1.  Editing and creating partitions
    2.  Create bootable Image
    3.  Drive formating
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Dark Mode
    6.  Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
    7.  Create image
    8.  LUKS Encryption

    GNOME Disks VS cpuid

     
    • GNOME Disks is the most popular Linux alternative to cpuid.

    • GNOME Disks is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to cpuid.

    • GNOME Disks is Free and Open Sourcecpuid is also Free and Open Source
  2. Hardinfo icon
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    Hardinfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux. It shows detailed system info, including hardware, environment, and kernel. It can use lm_sensors and ACPI for temperature and battery information. It also has four CPU banchmarks and two FPU benchmarks.

    62 Hardinfo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • BR flagBrazil

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
    • GNOME
    • MATE
    • Xfce
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.5.1, released in April 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Portable
    5.  Hardware Monitoring

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  3. lshw icon
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    lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    lshw Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Export to XML
    3.  Export to HTML
    4.  Export to JSON
    5.  Hardware Monitoring
    6.  Tree view

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  4. hwinfo icon
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    hwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

    119 hwinfo alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    hwinfo Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Hardware Monitoring

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    Inxi is a system information script that can display various things about your hardware and software to users in an irc chatroom or support forum. it runs with the /exec command in most irc clients.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    inxi Features

    1.  Hardware Monitoring

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  6. Psensor icon
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    Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux. It can monitor the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors), the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl), the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs, the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives...

    9 Psensor alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Psensor Features

    1.  CPU temperature
    2.  Hardware Monitoring

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  7. Dmidecode icon
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    Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    Dmidecode Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Reporting
    3.  Hardware Monitoring

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    • Dmidecode is the most popular Windows alternative to cpuid.

    • Dmidecode is Free and Open Sourcecpuid is also Free and Open Source
  8. Glxinfo icon
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    glxinfo is a command-line tool that can help you diagnose problems with your 3D acceleration setup. It can also provide additional helpful information for developers.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Glxinfo Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Hardware Diagnostics
    3.  OPENGL

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  9. Udev Discover icon
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    A helping tool for udev testers, coders, hackers and consumers. Main features are - Browsing the sysfs tree via udev, Reports udev device info and udev properties, Filter and search devices, Monitorize udev device events.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    Yacpi is an acpi monitoring program for Linux. It displays various acpi information like battery status and ac status on notebooks. The main reason why i wrote this program is, because i don't like the acpi program, which is included in debian :) It displays things like...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    vbetool is a small application that executes code from the BIOS of your video card. This is mostly useful for reinitialising the hardware, for instance after ACPI suspend/resuming.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    vbetool Features

    1.  Hardware Monitoring

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    read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading the EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since 1996 (except for newer ones with 256-byte EDID's - WiP), assuming the video card supports the standard read commands (most do).

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    read-edid Features

    1.  Hardware Monitoring

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