{"id":2835,"date":"2017-05-18T19:51:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/pix\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2019-03-27T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:03:19","slug":"pix-1705-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/pix-1705-17\/","title":{"rendered":"PIX 1705.17 \u2013 Intel GPU counters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/download\/\">PIX 1705.17 beta<\/a> is now available for download.<\/p>\n<p>This release introduces a partnership with Intel.\u00a0 We are pleased to announce that PIX now supports a set of ~200 hardware performance counters when running on a compatible Intel GPU.\u00a0 The new data includes processing counts, busy percentages, and bottleneck information from different parts of the rendering pipeline, and also covers memory bandwidth and cache usage.\u00a0 This can help PIX users optimize their titles to run efficiently on Intel hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Intel GPU counters are supported on 6<sup>th<\/sup> Generation Intel Core Processors or newer (e.g. Skylake and Kabylake).\u00a0 They are not enabled on older hardware generations (e.g. Broadwell or Haswell).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2019\/03\/intelcounters.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2019\/03\/intelcounters.png\" alt=\"intelcounters\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2845\" width=\"305\" height=\"922\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to our partners at Intel for making this possible!<\/p>\n<p>Note that not all counter values are currently rolled up from individual draw calls to their parent marker regions.\u00a0 We will be improving that in future releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PIX 1705.17 beta is now available for download. This release introduces a partnership with Intel.\u00a0 We are pleased to announce that PIX now supports a set of ~200 hardware performance counters when running on a compatible Intel GPU.\u00a0 The new data includes processing counts, busy percentages, and bottleneck information from different parts of the rendering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1719,"featured_media":4769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pix","tag-release"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>PIX 1705.17 beta is now available for download. This release introduces a partnership with Intel.\u00a0 We are pleased to announce that PIX now supports a set of ~200 hardware performance counters when running on a compatible Intel GPU.\u00a0 The new data includes processing counts, busy percentages, and bottleneck information from different parts of the rendering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/pix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}