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hardinfo2 User Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Is hardinfo2 just a GUI interface for information that can be read from kernel?
No, it is correct that many informations can be found from kernel, but hardinfo2 does not just collect all these into a nice interface (GUI+CLI) but also adds extra information from blobs and internal tables and routines.

How do I run all benchmarks?
Just press the Synchronize button - It will update all information and benchmarks

Command Line Interface

The hardinfo2 program also has a Command Line Interface, for use in terminals. This can be useful for remote support issues, describing and benchmarking a lot of machines remotely, adding a note to the uploaded benchmarks for identifying a group of benchmarks, etc.

man hardinfo2 shows the following CLI options:
-h, --helpShow help options
-q, --quitedo not print status messages to standard output
-r, --generate-reportcreates a report and prints to standard output
-f, --report-formatchooses a report format (text, html)
-g, --result-formatchooses a result format (short, conf, shell)
-b, --run-benchmarkrun a specific benchmark eg. -b 'FPU FFT' (Default all benchmarks runs when generate report)
-s, --skip-benchmarksDisables all benchmark runs.
-n, --max-resultsmaximum number of benchmark results to include (-1 for no limit, default is 50)
-u, --user-noteadds a user note to data send to server. When added eg. -u 1 synchronization is activated.
-v, --versionshows program version and quit
-w, --very-verboseshow all details

EXAMPLES

examples of CLI command usage:
hardinfo2 -b 'FPU FFT'runs only FPU FFT benchmark
hardinfo2 -u 1enable updates at startup and starts gui (can also be set in gui)
hardinfo2 -u X -rupdates data from server, generate CLI report and sends benchmark with user-note X
hardinfo2 -rgenerates CLI report

Example of remote support issues: hardinfo2 -r -s -q|grep -A3 ^\-BIOS
List of topics available: hardinfo2 -r -s -q|grep ^\-

Website tricks

You can call benchmarks directly:
https://hardinfo2.org/?cpu1=7950x
https://hardinfo2.org/?cpu1=rpi4&cpu2=rpi5&cpu3=5600

You can select filter group directly:
https://hardinfo2.org/?u=SBC
groups:
ALL,SBC,NOTEBOOK,DESKTOP,GPU,STORAGE
WORKSERVER,32,INTEL,AMD,OTHER

You can filter for your own custom group of benchmarks:
See above option -u
https://hardinfo2.org/?u=MyUniqueNote

You can call a page directly:
https://hardinfo2.org/news
https://hardinfo2.org/benchcompare
https://hardinfo2.org/userguide
https://hardinfo2.org/credits
https://hardinfo2.org/history
https://hardinfo2.org/dbstats


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