Starting from version 2013 R4, Graphics Performance Analyzers introduce a new version of the Platform Analyzer. If you used the previous version of Platform Analyzer, your transition to using the new version of the tool should be very straightforward. However, note the following differences:
- Tracing enabled by default: You do not need to select this option from the Graphics Monitor Preferences configuration pane to enable this feature.
- Tracing configuration options minimized:
- To configure tracing, you need to set the Tracing Duration option only, via Graphics Monitor> Profiles >Tracing. This option replaces the Trace Buffer Size option.
- The options for collecting DirectX* data, hardware context, and internal data are no longer available since the new version of Platform Analyzer automatically collects the data necessary for creating and viewing all the data charts.
- Android* support: Beside traditional support for the Windows*-based applications, Platform Analyzer now supports Android applications running on platforms with Intel Processor Graphics (root** access is required) and Intel® Atom™ processor with PowerVR* Graphics.
- GPU software queue: The Platform View of the new Platform Analyzer provides data on GPU usage per GPU engine and DMA packet domain on a software queue at each moment of time. The Platform View per Packet Type is supported for the data collected with the Collect DMA packet type configuration option enabled and is available for platforms with Intel Processor Graphics. The Packet Type view helps easily identify scheduled OpenCL™ and media related tasks.
Overall, the new Platform Analyzer provides an advanced platform analysis mechanism that can more quickly isolate and identify task synchronization issues across the CPUs and GPU. For details about running the tool on different operating systems and new features incrementally added to each release of the new Platform Analyzer, see Release Notes and Online Help.
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For more information about the Graphics Performance Analyzers, see the Home Page or the Intel INDE Home Page.
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