Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers 2023.2 Release is Out!

[Pamela_H_Intel]

Hello All, 

The Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers team is proud to announce Intel® GPA 2023.2!

You can download Intel® GPA 2023.2 for FREE from the Intel® GPA homepage.

Watch the full release video from the GPA website, or on Intel's YouTube channel.

All Tools

• Upgraded GUI to Qt6 framework. It includes the latest security updates which improve system stability.

Graphics Monitor

• Added new frame capture mode (Frame [DX12]), based on the latest capture/playback framework, which supports DirectX* 12 Ultimate features, including Mesh Shaders and DXR.
• Added compression option for Stream and Frame[DX12] capture modes. This option can reduce the required storage space for captured streams and frames by up to 30%.

Graphics Frame Analyzer

• Improved error messages, allowing for easier troubleshooting of stream and frame opening issues.

Intel® GPA Framework 

• Added an auto hooking feature that can attach to workloads at their launch. It has broad functionality to control the “attach” conditions, such as any wildcard match of the process name, as well as the ability to attach to a process on its Nth invocation.
• Added new functionality to track acceleration structures in Microsoft* DirectX Raytracing (DXR) workloads accurately, thus enabling cross-GPU capture and playback of streams (suboptimal, but correct)
• Added a dump state layer to inspect the draw and dispatch calls by dumping state information into several text files.
• Added capture/playback support for VK_KHR_buffer_device_address. That enables capturing/playing back workloads that use acceleration structure/buffer/memory device addresses (essentially, raytracing workloads).
• Added support for Vulkan* SDK version 1.3.243.0.

[VictorDR]

After upgrading to version 23.2, I cannot use the "Save Texture to File" option - no file (dds or png) is created.

[Pamela_H_Intel]

Yes, thank you for the feedback. This is a known issue. We hope to have it fixed in our next release.

[yashagra]

GPA fails to render Vulkan Ray Tracing applications with Graphics Frame Analyzers on Intel Arc 770 Graphics card.  Graphics Frame Analyzer get stuck in Please wait mode when opening the frame.
Below is the link for the applications:

1. Vulkan/examples/rayquery at master · SaschaWillems/Vulkan · GitHub

2. Vulkan/examples/raytracingbasic at master · SaschaWillems/Vulkan · GitHub

[Pamela_H_Intel]

Right. Our previously released versions of GPA have not yet implemented support for Vulkan RT. For our next release Vulkan RT won't yet be supported in our GUI tools, but we will support it in our cli - GPA Framework (downloadable on the same page as the GPA GUI Tools). GPA Framework is the back end of Graphics Frame Analyzer.

I am making the video demo this week.

Check out our release video (on the GPA Landing page or on YouTube) when it comes out later this month (Intel GPA 2023.3).

[Pamela_H_Intel]

We've released Intel GPA  2023.3 today. Intel GPA Framework now supports continuous capture and playback of Vulkan RT workloads.