Tips & Tools

Reduce Rendering Time with Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer

Learn how to use the Intel® GPA Frame Analyzer to create or modify shaders to see whether changes result in reduced rendering time with an acceptable level of overall scene quality.

Performance Scaling on Multi-core Processors

This article introduces tasking as a general approach for performance scaling on multi-core processors. An example Task Manager is shown, backed by 3 scheduling APIs: Intel® Threading Building Blocks, Microsoft Concurrency Runtime, and a custom Windows* Threads based scheduler.

Tune up Your Software with Intel® Tools

The Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE 2011 can help pinpoint performance problems through profiling and help fine-tune code for performance optimization, ensuring cores are fully exploited and new processor capabilities are supported.