Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Display running frequency of Raspberry Pi in command line

To display cpu's maximum, mimimum and current frequency, we can use the command:

  • $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq
  • $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq
  • $ sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
    (need permission)
Display CPU frequency
Display CPU frequency of Raspberry Pi
We can also use vcgencmd command
  • $ vcgencmd measure_clock arm
    to display ARM processor's clock speed. IT will be something like:
    frequency(45)=700000000
    means 700,000,000 Hz or 700MHz
  • vcgencmd measure_clock core
    to display system's core frequency, like:
    frequency(1)=250000000
    250,000,000 Hz, or 250MHz.
Display clock speed with vcgencmd command
Display clock speed with vcgencmd command
For more RPI vcgencmd usage, refer http://elinux.org/RPI_vcgencmd_usage

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