New in Release 2012 R1

Version 2012 R1 of the Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers contains the following new features:

General

New Online HTML Help available
Full support for Intel® HD Graphics 2500/4000 (former Intel® microarchitecture code name Ivy Bridge) platforms including D0, E0, and M0 silicon.
Support for “Graphics Performance Analyzers” BIOS on Intel® HD Graphics 2500/4000 systems for enabling compute metrics.

New FPS state override, which enables you to force the game to a lower FPS rate for power analysis modeling.
Possibility to disable tracing while analyzing your application with the Intel® GPA.

Support for viewing and working with textures for all shader types.
Possibility to view 1D, 3D, or other un-viewable textures as Hex data.
Possibility to save textures to a disk as .DDS files for offline analysis.
Support for Intel® GMA 3650 Netbooks and tablets.
Initial prototype for shader analysis and profiling.
Possibility to toggle between the two views in the Visualization panel: select either individual ergs or metrics associated with sets of ergs, grouped by render target.

New metrics for analysis of Power Consumption for Intel® HD 2000/3000 Platforms.
Support for logging metric data directly to a .CSV file for offline analysis.

Greatly improved performance, including faster file loads, major task selection improvement, and reduced memory utilization when loading large files.
Hardware Task View now shows information regarding other processes that were running during trace collection.
New coefficient statistics for selected tasks.
New ability to select all tasks within a selected time period.