Qualcomm Releases Snapdragon Profiler 1.8

<p> <span style=color:#424242><a href=https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/snapdragon-profiler rel=external>Snapdragon Profiler v1.8</a> is now available from Qualcomm for developers looking to profile their games and VR/AR apps on Android and the Snapdragon SoC. The latest version adds new realtime metrics for frame time, GPU frequency, and GPU temperature, improved profiler overhead, and a number of bug fixes. Learn more and download <a href=https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/snapdragon-profiler rel=external>by clicking here</a>.</span> </p> <p> <span style=color:#424242>Full release notes:</span> </p> <ul> <li> Added new Realtime metrics: <ul> <li> Per-process 'Frame Time' metric for OpenGL ES applications in Realtime captures </li> <li> System 'GPU Frequency' metric (requires root) </li> <li> System 'GPU Temperature' metric (requires root, not available on all devices) </li> </ul> </li> <li> New Trace capture metric 'GPU Activity' visualizes the correlation between GPU Activity and CPU thread command submissions </li> <li> Added ability to export Drawcall Vertex Data to the OBJ file format in Snapshot captures </li> <li> Reduced Profiler overhead for graphics applications </li> <li> Added ability to copy to clipboard affecting relevant controls </li> <li> Added visual indicator for binary programs used in Snapshot captures </li> <li> Added ability to toggle boolean values in the Options view with mouse double-click </li> <li> Added OpenCL metric support for Adreno 512 GPU family </li> <li> Fixed crash while exporting Data Explorer data from Trace and Snapshot captures </li> <li> Fixed issue capturing 'Rendering Stage' and 'API Trace' with Vulkan Trace captures </li> <li> Fixed drawcall data crash affecting various graphics applications </li> <li> Fixed various issues in Shader Analyzer in Android O Developer Preview </li> <li> Fixed Vulkan applications not listed in process list for Trace captures </li> <li> Fixed issue where global metrics aren't re-enabled when re-launching Vulkan applications </li> <li> Fixed random crash while creating a new Snapshot capture with Snapdragon Profiler on MacOS </li> <li> Fixed incorrect data when capturing Trace 'Rendering Stages' </li> </ul>