Arm Performance Studio
About this Install Guide
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| Last updated: | 31 Aug 2026 |
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| Last updated: |
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| Author: | Ronan Synnott, Arm
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This guide shows you how to install and use the tool with the most common configuration. For advanced options and complete reference information, see the official documentation. Some install guides also include optional next steps to help you explore related workflows or integrations.
Arm Performance Studio is a performance analysis tool suite for Android and Linux application developers. It shows you how well your game or app performs on production devices, so that you can identify problems that might cause slow performance, overheat the device, or drain the battery.
| Component | Functionality |
|---|---|
| Streamline with Performance Advisor | Capture a performance profile that shows all the performance counter activity from the device. Generate an easy-to-read performance summary from an annotated Streamline capture, and get actionable advice about where you should optimize. |
| Frame Advisor | Capture the API calls and rendering from a problem frame and get comprehensive geometry metrics to discover what might be slowing down your application. |
| Mali Offline Compiler | Analyze how efficiently your shader programs perform on a range of Mali GPUs. |
| RenderDoc for Arm GPUs | The industry-standard tool for debugging Vulkan graphics applications, including early support for Arm GPU extensions and Android features. |
All features of Arm Performance Studio are available free of charge without any additional license.
Download Arm Performance Studio
Arm Performance Studio is supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts. Download the appropriate installer from Arm Performance Studio Downloads .
Full details about the supported OS and Android versions are given in the Arm Performance Studio Release Notes .
Install Arm Performance Studio on Windows
Arm Performance Studio is provided as an installer executable. Double-click the .exe file and follow the instructions in the setup wizard.
Open the Performance Studio Hub from the Windows Start menu, or by double-clicking the shortcut in the installation directory. You can read a description of the tools and launch them from the Hub.
Install Arm Performance Studio on macOS
Arm Performance Studio is provided as a .dmg package. Double-click the .dmg package and follow the instructions. The Arm Performance Studio directory tree is copied to your Applications directory.
Open the Performance Studio.app file in your Applications directory to launch the Arm Performance Studio Hub. You can read a description of the tools and launch them from the Hub.
Install Arm Performance Studio on Linux
Arm Performance Studio for Linux is available for x86_64 hosts only. The tools profile Arm targets, such as Android devices and Arm Linux boards, from an x86_64 host.
Arm Performance Studio is provided as a gzipped tar archive.
The following commands use Arm Performance Studio version 2026.4. The same commands work with other versions. Replace the filename with the file for your version of choice. To find the latest version, see Arm Performance Studio Downloads .
Extract the tar archive to your home directory:
tar xvzf Arm_Performance_Studio_2026.4_linux_x86-64.tgz -C $HOME
This creates the Arm_Performance_Studio_2026.4 directory in your home directory.
Add the Streamline and Mali Offline Compiler directories to your PATH so you can run the Streamline-cli and malioc command-line tools from any directory. Add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc, then start a new shell:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Arm_Performance_Studio_2026.4/streamline
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Arm_Performance_Studio_2026.4/mali_offline_compiler
Verify the installation
Confirm the Mali Offline Compiler is available:
malioc --version
The output is similar to:
Mali Offline Compiler v2026.3.0 (Build bbe17b)
Copyright (c) 2007-2026 Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
Confirm the Streamline command-line tool is available:
Streamline-cli --version
The output is similar to:
Streamline 9.8 (Build 9.8.0.v20260625_0741)
Copyright (c) 2010-2026 Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
To launch the graphical Performance Studio Hub, run the launcher script in the installation directory:
$HOME/Arm_Performance_Studio_2026.4/performance-studio-cli.sh
The Hub describes each tool and lets you launch Streamline, Frame Advisor, and RenderDoc for Arm GPUs.
Get started with Arm Performance Studio
See the Get started with Arm Performance Studio learning path for an overview of how to run each tool in Arm Performance Studio.
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