# Utilyze

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Utilyze and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open source GPU monitoring tool that reports compute and memory throughput against hardware limits, helping spot bottlenecks. Caveat: it does not support AMD GPUs.

## Why people recommend it

- Shows compute and memory bottlenecks (2 comments): "It samples hardware performance counters and reports compute and memory throughput relative to the hardware’s theoretical limits." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878166)) "Our goal was to separate these bottlenecks out so there's more visibility into where to optimize." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925149))
- Quick answers for hardware choices (2 comments): "This is actually amazing to quickly figure out whether to switch to HBM or stay on GDDR GPUs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933040)) "This is an incredibly good first approximation and is often all you need." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928259))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Utilyze", https://hackerapproved.com/p/utilyze/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).