Cause, assuming you don't have any other display adapter than the one provided by your GPU, you see a picture, so, obviously you're utilizing your GPU.
glxinfo will tell you whether your display server can utilize 2d/3d graphics processing on the GPU (whether it is actually utilized still depends on the client application).
Somewhat similar, vainfo can tell you whether client applications may utilize your GPU for video encoding/decoding.
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