#226·llamafile

GPU speed-up on Raspberry Pi 5

Author: flatsiedatsieCreated Jan 24, 2024Updated Jul 24, 2026
Labelsrequest to lend supportvulkan

I'm experimenting with Llamafile on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8Gb of ram, in order to integrate it with existing privacy-protecting smart home voice control. This is working great so far as long as I very small models are used.

I was wondering: would it be possible to speed up inference on the Rasbperry Pi 5 by using the GPU?

Through this Stack Overflow post I've found some frameworks that already do this, such as:

The Raspberry Pi 5's VideoCore GPU has vulkan drivers: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-RPi-5-VideoCore-7.1.x

Curious to your thoughts.

Related: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/issues/40