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Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers are a suite of software tools that provide in-depth graphics application analysis to help you pinpoint bottlenecks and optimize your game for Intel® Integrated Graphics-based PCs. Leveraging more than 25 years of high-performance expertise, Intel provides advanced tools to analyze and optimize your application. More>
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Develop effective applications with Intel tools! Advanced compilers, multi-threaded libraries, and thread correctness tools are available to help you develop and debug threaded applications.
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Quickly find and tune graphics and CPU bottlenecks with one of Intel's Performance Analyzers.
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GPA 2.2 Update Release Walkthrough GPA consists of two main tools - System Analyzer and Frame Analyzer. In this video, Chris Cormack walks through key features and basic usage of both tools. A quick overview of the need for visual applications to take advantage of multicore processors to make it easier to create reliable, fast threaded visual applications. Bart Kijanka, VP of Engineering at Gas Powered Games, discusses their use of Intel GPA to analyze and optimize the graphics performance of Demigod with up to a 30% performance boost.


- GPA 2.2 Update Release Walkthrough

 

- Overview of Intel’s Graphics Performance Analyzers Suite: System Analyzer and Frame Analyzer 2.0 - Part 1

 

- Quick introduction to Intel Parallel Studio

 

- Gas Powered Games* Optimization of Demigod* Using Intel GPA