[obsolete]: Announcing Intel GPA 4.1

[Neal_Pierman]

NOTE: As of September 19th, 2011, Intel GPA 4.1 is no longer the latest release of Intel Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel GPA). Please see this article on the Intel GPA 4.2 release. This article is still available for those who want to see what features were added in the Intel GPA 4.1 release.

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Announcing Version 4.1 of Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel GPA)

Intel GPA is a powerful, agile developer tool suite for analyzing and optimizing games, media, and other graphics-intensive applications. Version 4.1 adds significant new features to the product, based upon recommendations from graphics developers such as yourself.

This latest release includes includes the ability to profile browser accelerated graphics workloads (hosted in Internet Explorer* 9, Chrome*, and FireFox* 4), OpenCL* and Media Performance Analysis capabilities, a new hardware thread view in Intel GPA Platform Analyzer, large file support (up to 2GB) in Intel GPA Platform Analyzer, and various performance enhancements throughout Intel GPA System Analyzer HUD, Intel GPA Frame Analyzer, and Intel GPA Platform Analyzer.

The product is available at no charge to members of Intel's Visual Adrenaline Developer Program. To download Intel GPA and register for Visual Adrenaline membership, use this link. For more information on membership in this free developer program, visit the Visual Adrenaline Home Page. Additionally, Intel GPA can be purchased for $299 from this site.

For more information on this release, see the following articles:

• Intel GPA 4.1 Announcement and Overview of New Features
• Intel GPA 4.1 Quick Start Guide (for those already familiar with Intel GPA)
• Intel GPA 4.1 Getting Started Guide (for those new to the Intel GPA toolset)

And be sure to let us know about your experience using the product at the Intel GPA Support Forum.

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

[Neal_Pierman]

Hello Intel GPA users,

Today, the 19th of August, we've released an update to Intel GPA 4.1 -- the update fixes two issues that may affect a small number of customers:

• Intel GPA will no longer block trace file capture on systems that do not have accurate clock synchronization across system cores. This allows trace capture on older systems, but at reduced accuracy (Intel highly recommends using systems with Intel Core Processors for accurate results). See this article for more information.
• In some situations the Intel GPA Platform Analyzer displayed incorrect data in the hardware view.

[Neal_Pierman]

Hello users of Intel GPA.

As of today (September 19th, 2011), Intel GPA 4.2 has been released. Please see this article for details on this latest release.

Neal