March 14th, 2014
Introduction
Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA) is a powerful, agile developer tool suite for analyzing and optimizing games, media, and other graphics-intensive applications. The product supports applications intended for the Windows* OS platforms or Intel® Atom™ based phones running the Android* OS. The toolset is a free download from the Intel GPA Home Page.
Available now, Intel GPA 2014 R2 includes updates to these key features:
Intel® GPA Platform Analyzer
The legacy Intel® GPA Platform Analyzer has been replaced with a new version supporting both Android* and Windows* OS workloads. For a detailed breakdown of new features, see the Intel® GPA Release Notes link below.
Intel GPA for Android* OS
Intel GPA System Analyzer
- By default, Intel GPA now installs to a new path on Windows* OS: C:\Intel\INDE\GPA\
- The tool now supports Android 4.4 on devices based on the Intel® processor codenamed Bay Trail.
- The System View can now show metrics on 8" tablets based on the Intel® processor codenamed Bay Trail using recent Android 4.4 system images.
Intel GPA Frame Analyzer
- Resources are now compressed when frame captures are taken, leading to faster playback response times to a connected device.
- The glFinish and glFlush calls are no longer tracked as Ergs, to avoid incorrect processing of these calls as draw calls for asset exploration and experiments.
- You can now open frames that use compressed texture formats not supported by the device such as GL_PALETTE_RGBA8_OES.
- You can now open frames with the number of uniform vectors used in the frame exceeding the device limit.
- The tool now supports glBindVertexArrayOES, which resolved an application crash when analyzing workloads utilizing this method.
Intel GPA Frame Debugger (Beta)
- This new companion tool to the Intel GPA tool suite provides frame capture and debugging capabilties across Intel Atom(TM) based devices for OpenGL-ES 1.X/2.X workloads. Originally released in R1, this update to the Beta product provides new shader editing support for 2.X workloads.
Intel GPA for Windows* OS
Intel GPA System Analyzer
- Added IP address whitelist feature enhances security for connections between Windows* OS client and target systems.
Intel GPA Frame Analyzer
- Added IP address whitelist feature enhances security for connections between Windows* OS client and target systems.
- Fixed a defect that caused an infinite loop when analyzing applications with Intel GPA.
The product also adds other minor enhancements and stability improvements, so all users should download and install this latest version of the product from the Intel GPA Home Page.
Next Steps
To find out more about the Intel® GPA tool suite, check out one or more of these on-line resources:
- Intel GPA Release Notes: Recent updates, detailed product requirements, installation information, legal information, and version-specific technical issues and workarounds for the product.
- Intel GPA Home Page: The product's home site provides detailed information about the tool, including links to training and support resources, as well as videos on the product to help you get started quickly.
- Intel GPA On-line Help: A web-based version of the product documentation, providing details on the product tools and metrics for various platforms.
- Intel GPA Support Forum: Browse to this page to ask questions or report issues about the product, or let us know what other features would help make the tools more useful for your work-flow.
- Intel GPA Knowledge Base Articles: A list of useful technical articles, including tips & tricks and workarounds to help you get the most out of the product.
- Intel GPA Getting Started Guide for Windows* OS: If you are new to Intel GPA, this is the place to start for analyzing Microsoft* DirectX* applications running on the Microsoft* Windows* OS platform -- we introduce you to the key concepts of the product, getting you up and running with the tools in no time at all!
- Intel GPA Getting Started Guide for Android* OS: An Android*-specific version of the Getting Started Guide -- everything you need to know to start using Intel GPA to analyze Android* OS applications running on Intel® Atom™ based phones.
- 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor (code name Haswell): Provides an overview of the latest processors from Intel, including detailed information about the architecture. Also, you'll find a Graphics Developers Guide showing how to optimize your games and graphics applications for systems based on this architecture.
* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.