May 27th, 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™ processor based devices and a very limited set of ARM* based devices running the Android* OS. The toolset is a free download from the Intel GPA Home Page or INDE Web Site.
Available now, Intel GPA 2014 R2 Update includes these key features:
Features for Analyzing Windows* Applications
Intel GPA Frame Analyzer
- Support for Windows* 8 Store applications using traditional Microsoft DirectX* rendering
Intel GPA System Analyzer
- The GPU Frequency metric added to the System View
Intel GPA Monitor
- Detection for Secure Boot/Trusted Boot to alert users to incompatibilities with application analysis when this BIOS feature is enabled
Intel GPA Platform Analyzer
- Data on DMA packet domains provided on the GPU Queue enabling easy identification of scheduled OpenCL™ kernels and media related tasks
Features for Analyzing Android* Applications
Intel GPA Frame Analyzer
- Resources compression when frame captures are taken, leading to faster playback response time to a connected device.
Support for ARM-Based Devices (Beta)
- Beta-level support for a limited set of ARM devices in the following tools: Intel GPA System Analyzer, Intel GPA Frame Analyzer (no metrics) and Intel Frame Debugger. For details, see this article
Intel Frame Debugger (Gold)
- Editable OpenGL ES 2.0 states
- Support for dynamic textures
- Editable uniforms
- Limited support for ARM-based devices
- Support for the switch-off/on states for alpha channel visualization for textures in Graphics Pipeline View.
- Support for shaders and binary program replacement
- Compatibility check for shader extensions
- Automatic checks for software updates
- Multiple UI enhancements: dark UI color scheme, improved full screen mode, improved touch support, etc.
The product also adds other minor enhancements and stability improvements. You can 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: Explore recent updates, detailed product requirements, installation information, legal information, and version-specific technical issues and workarounds for the product.
- Intel GPA Home Page: View 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: Explore details on the product tools and metrics for various platforms.
- Intel GPA Support Forum: Ask questions or report issues about the product, or let us know what other features would help make the tools more useful for your workflow.
- Intel GPA Knowledge Base Articles: Explore 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 -- 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 (microarchitecture code name Haswell): Get 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.
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