Graphics Tools

Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers

Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers is a powerful, agile tool suite which will help you to utilize the full performance potential of Intel Integrated Graphics-based systems. GPA will collect graphics and system metrics from your application, allowing you to understand where in the system and in individual frames that time is being spent, and allowing you to perform ‘what-if’ experiments to estimate potential performance gains from optimizations. Optimizing your code for Integrated Graphics will increase your potential game title sales to the ever-increasing desktop mainstream and mobile gaming spaces.

In 2008, mobile integrated chipset sales outsold discrete desktop graphics card sales for the first time in history. By 2013, mobile chipsets will outsell discrete graphics cards by more than 3 to 1 (Mercury Research, 2008). Our goal is to help you secure additional, opportunistic sell-through to this growing market, which will bolster the sales figures you might expect from your currently targeted (if distinct) sales demographic.

Our Price: $299.00

Intel® Media Software Development Kit

The version 1.0 release of the Intel® Media Software Development Kit (SDK) equips developers with a standard application programming interface (API) for creating video solutions that target consumer and professional uses. Broadly spanning Intel hardware platforms, the Intel Media SDK can also be extended to support third-party hardware through custom dynamic link libraries (DLLs). The functions available through the API streamline and simplify video encoding, decoding, and preprocessing operations, supporting encoding for the H.264 and MPEG-2 formats, and decoding for H.264, MPEG-2, and VC-1. For development teams seeking a practical and high-performance means for readily tapping into the hardware acceleration capabilities of target platforms, the Intel Media SDK includes built-in capabilities that optimize routines for the available graphics hardware. Platforms lacking dedicated graphics hardware acceleration features still gain the benefit of tuned, optimized, and threaded software-based video encoding and decoding, ensuring performance equal to the caliber of individual systems.

Developer benefits include:

  • Optimized routines for delivering maximum video performance on a variety of platforms
  • Improved productivity for development teams through greater efficiency
  • Built-in future proofing of video applications with support for upcoming platforms
Our Price: $199.00