CPU Info¶

Overview¶

8 commands to check cpu information on Linux:

/proc/cpuinfo: The /proc/cpuinfo file contains details about individual cpu cores.
lscpu: simply print the cpu hardware details in a user-friendly format
cpuid: fetches CPUID information about Intel and AMD x86 processors
nproc: just prints out the number of processing units available, note that the number of processing units might not always be the same as number of cores
dmidecode: displays some information about the cpu, which includes the socket type, vendor name and various flags
hardinfo: would produce a large report about many hardware parts, by reading files from the /proc directory
lshw -class processor: lshw by default shows information about various hardware parts, and the -class option can be used to pickup information about a specific hardware part
inxi: a script that uses other programs to generate a well structured easy to read report about various hardware components on the system