Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzer 2020.3 Release is Out!

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Hello All, 

The Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers team is proud to announce Intel® GPA 2020.2!

You can download Intel® GPA 2020.2 for FREE from the Intel® GPA homepage.

Watch the full release video here!

What’s new?

• All Tools

  • Future support is already enabled for the recently announced 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors with Intel® Iris® Xe graphics

• Graphics Frame Analyzer

  • Variable Rate Shading Tier2 support in Multi-frame Profiling View mode. This includes screen-space visualization of the VRS image
  • Alpha support for Microsoft DirectX* Raytracing in Multi-frame Profiling View mode
  • Initial support for Multi-GPU applications in Multi-frame Profiling View mode

• Graphics Trace Analyzer

  • DirectX Raytracing calls are now displayed in the thread tracks
  • Added auto-highlighting of events to make CPU and GPU synchronization more transparent. When you select a synchronization event, all events that are related to it are highlighted as well
    • CPU synchronization with SetEvent and WaitForSingle(Multiple)Object(s)
    • GPU synchronization with DirectX 12 command queue Signal/Wait calls
  • See our first three Trace Analyzer Deep Dive videos - more to come!

• System Analyzer

  • Increased the quality of CPU metrics on Windows by significantly increasing the granularity of CPU counters for Intel hardware

• GPA Framework

  • Added support for DirectX 12 Variable Rate Shading Tier2
  • Introduced support for DirectX Raytracing (Alpha)
  • Added support for DirectX 12 Multiple GPUs (Beta)

View the full release notes and product announcement for more details