Bipul Mohanto

Bipul Mohanto

Doctoral Researcher@ Foveated Rendering | 3D Graphics Rendering| Global Illumination | Multi-View Rendering | Applied Human Perception | Color Science | Computer Vision

Benchmarking and GPU-Debugging/Profiling Series: 01

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(work in progress…)

In graphics rendering (both 2D and 3D), especially, in real-time rendering, frame rate (fps) is often presented as the computational improvement. However, the frame rate sometimes miss the important evaluation criteria. Therefore, the frame time (aka. render time in millisecond (ms)) could be a better option. For more, see this excellent article.

FPS Benchmarking

Other then the following tools, the NVIDIA Overlay (press alt+z in windows) can also do simple benchmarking.

  • Intel’s PresentMon -> Supports OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX; exports CSV. There are a bunch of tools mentioned in the github page that has backend PresentMon
  • NVIDIA FrameVIEW -> Measures FPS, frame times, power, performance-per-watt, and logs results; backend, PresentMon
  • CapFrameX (did not try)
  • AMD’s OCAT (did not try), backend, PresentMon

FrameView In-Depth (v 1.7)

See the NV Blogpost

GPU-Debugger/Profiler

The existing graphics debugger tools work in this philosophy to evaluate per-frame rendering time (ms) to find the drawbacks. It is the only way to answer the uestion, why some rendering strategy is faster or slower? Some of the popular debuggers are:

Other than, there are several other debuggers, e.g.,

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