RPI-GPU-USAGE(1)

🎀 welcome to the RPI-GPU-USAGE(1) era 🎀

Okay bestie, you're looking at the manual page for rpi-gpu-usage(1), hanging out in the Raspberry Pi Utilities manual. It's the little tool that keeps an eye on your VideoCore GPU block utilisation, and honestly? iconic.

💖 NAME 💖

rpi-gpu-usage - monitor VideoCore GPU block utilisation

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rpi-gpu-usage [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the whole vibe: rpi-gpu-usage monitors the VideoCore GPU block utilisation on Raspberry Pi 4/5. It reads per-process GPU engine times from DRM fdinfo and global utilisation from the V3D gpu_stats sysfs interface.

The display refreshes once per second, showing per-client GPU engine usage (render, tfu, bin) and CPU usage. Literally a little live feed for your GPU's main character moments. 💅

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• --csv — Output in CSV format instead of a formatted table. Suitable for piping to a file for later analysis. File girlies, this one's for you.
• --help — Show usage information and exit. Polite, brief, effective.

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Run it like this, bestie:

sudo rpi-gpu-usage                      # interactive terminal display
sudo rpi-gpu-usage --csv > gpu.csv      # log CSV to file

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• vcgencmd(1) — another friend in the manual-verse.

Signed, sealed, and slayed by raspi-utils, dated 2025. 💋✨