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Last Updated: 07 / 15 / 2008

NVIDIA ShaderPerf 2

ShaderPerf2Screenshot.JPGNVIDIA ShaderPerf is a command-line shader profiling utility and C API that reports detailed shader performance metrics for a wide range of GPUs. 

A graphical user interface (GUI) for shader performance analysis is available in FX Composer 2.5, and was built using the ShaderPerf API.

ShaderPerf 2.0 includes several new features:
  • GeForce 8 series support
  • Pixel Shader Differencing
  • Vertex Shader Analysis
ShaderPerf outputs the following for any shader that you analyze:
  • Cycle count
  • Register usage
  • Driver-optimized shader instruction list
  • Vertex and pixel throughput estimates
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