GPU ShaderAnalyzer

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Hi,

I have found this tools. It can be a great help in order to test shaders. I.e: You are developing a new shader and your pc has a nvidia graphic card, then you can download this tool and check if the new shader runs ok on ati graphic cards. It is for windows only!



Overview



GPU ShaderAnalyzer is a tool for analyzing the performance of pixel, vertex, geometry, hull, domain and compute shaders for ATI Radeon™ graphics cards. It gives you accurate performance estimates for your shaders and even allows you to view disassembly of the generated hardware shader, all without having to run the application on actual hardware. GPU ShaderAnalyzer can be used as a GUI tool for interactive tuning of your shaders or in command line mode to generate detailed reports. It supports Direct3D (D3D9.0 - D3D11) and OpenGL (GLSL 1.50, arb_fp and arb_vp) shaders. To analyze stream kernels (OpenCL, Brook+ and IL), please download Stream KernelAnalyzer.



http://developer.amd.com/tools/gpu/shader/Pages/default.aspx

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ohhhh sounds good from the description, nice found.

I’ll definitely try it.

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Worth a try i would say, sounds great so far, nice finding.

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Silly question (as most of mine are)… It say ATI Radeon… does this mean it only polls from the ATI cards? Or does this work with other graphics cards as well? I try to steer clear of ATI if at all possible…(while writing shaders anyways). I went through all sorts of nightmares trying to debug using an ATI Radeon card. :frowning:

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@t0neg0d said:
Silly question (as most of mine are)... It say ATI Radeon... does this mean it only polls from the ATI cards? Or does this work with other graphics cards as well? I try to steer clear of ATI if at all possible...(while writing shaders anyways). I went through all sorts of nightmares trying to debug using an ATI Radeon card. :(


@H said:
It can be a great help in order to test shaders. I.e: You are developing a new shader and your pc has a nvidia graphic card, then you can download this tool and check if the new shader runs ok on ati graphic cards. It is for windows only!
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I’m on ATI, lucky me :stuck_out_tongue:

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@kwando said:
I'm on ATI, lucky me :P


Lucky you until you actually want feedback when one of your shaders fails and would like SOME clue as to where the problem may be :)
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@pspeed said:
What you quoted and such


Yeah... I just wanted conformation that that the polling required an ATI Radeon. I would (figurative speaking) kill for an app like this that allowed you to test against multiple graphics cards.
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@t0neg0d said:
Lucky you until you actually want feedback when one of your shaders fails and would like SOME clue as to where the problem may be :)

I have no failing shaders... it's just unintended features :P
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@kwando said:
I have no failing shaders... it's just unintended features :P

lol... I just have failures :)