AMD GPU PerfStudio 2.8 Released

AMD has published a new version of GPU PerfStudio. GPU PerfStudio is a profiler and debugger for OpenGL and Direct3D (D3D10 and D3D11) applications.

GPU PerfStudio includes several tools:

• 1 – a frame debugger that allows you to visualize the graphics state and resources in your frame.
• 2 – a frame profiler that allows you to identify per draw call performance issues at the hardware counter level.
• 3 – a shader debugger that allows you to step through and analyze your shader code and its output.
• 4 – an API trace window with integrated CPU timing information.

GPU PerfStudio 2.8 includes the following changes:

• New Properties Window added to display text based data
  • The previous text based windows have been replaced by a single properties window
  • The default stage layouts have been edited to use this new window
• Shader Debugger
  • Constant table UI improvements
  • More assembly shaders are now debuggable
  • Fix for for the register mask of the last instruction being black
  • The contents of the Shader constant table can now be saved to disk
• Shader Editor now supports relative paths
• Profiler
  • The Profiler now gives the user feedback as the profile is taking place
  • Single Draw Call Profiling is now supported
  • Ability to perfrom a profile a specific number of times
  • Support for 7000 series Performance Counters
  • Reduced the memory overhead when many counters are used in a profile
• Advanced Picture Viewer
  • Now saves to disk the image that you actually see (i.e. the channels the user selects)
  • DDS Support for DXGI_FORMAT_R32_UINT
• Client connection dailog now saves settings upon connection
• OpenGL
  • OpenGL 4.1 Compute Shader now supported
  • Support for OpenGL debug context

Maybe I missed something, but what are OpenGL 4.1 compute shaders?

More information about GPU PerfStudio and download HERE.

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