Release Notes
Snapdragon Profiler 2024.1 Release Notes
Windows on Snapdragon:
- Enabled async compute workload visualization in Trace mode
- Enabled DirectX 11 per-process metrics visualization in Trace mode
Linux targets:
- Enabled OpenCL metrics support
- Fixed issues related to OpenCL Trace captures
- Fixed device connection issues for some Linux targets
Snapdragon Profiler 2023.5 Release Notes
- Added DirectX 11 Trace support for Windows on Snapdragon (with supported drivers)
- Added DirectX 12 Trace workload mode support for Windows on Snapdragon (with supported drivers)
- Added Vulkan Trace support for Windows on Snapdragon
- Added CPU Realtime and Trace support for Windows on Snapdragon
- Added OpenGL ES Trace and Snapshot support for some Linux targets
- Added Vulkan Snapshot support for some Linux targets
- Added API selection to Application Launch Dialog for some platforms
- Fixed missing Vulkan Snapshot metrics affecting some devices
- Fixed OpenCL Trace issue with applications using recordable queues
- Fixed various GUI layout issues
- Note: Users with older versions of GTK installed on their machines may have to manually uninstall those older versions if problems are experienced when running the latest installed version of SDP.
Snapdragon Profiler 2023.4 Release Notes
- Added support for DirectX 12 Realtime and Trace Captures (available on supported drivers)
- Added new SnapdragonProfiler Monitor to facilitate connections on Windows on Arm64 devices
- Added new Device Manager to improve/manage connections on various platforms
- Added Vulkan Snapshot support for EXT_surface_maintenance1 extension
- Added additional documentation for automotive platforms
- Added input history support to Launch Application dialog
- Improved device identification on some linux embedded platforms
- Improved various platform specific messaging within the user interface
- Fixed issue with OpenCL metrics on mis-identified devices
- Fixed mis-labeling of Vulkan Trace GMEM Load Color stages
- Fixed issue selecting some drawcalls with OpenGL ES Snapshot
- Fixed some metric calculations affecting OpenCL Trace on some Snapdragon 8+ devices
- Fixed issue with Native Trace API not returning data
- Fixed issue with resizing undocked windows
- Note: Users with older versions of GTK installed on their machines may have to manually uninstall those older versions if problems are experienced when running the latest installed version of SDP.
Snapdragon Profiler 2023.3 Release Notes
- Added OpenCL Tracing support for additional device types
- Added Option to include non-user mode processes for CPU Sampling
- Added access to device settings from the Connect Dialog
- Modified additional GUI elements to be more platform aware
- Fixed issue with OpenGL ES Snapshot resource filtering
- Fixed issue launching Vulkan applications with FSR enabled
- Fixed Vulkan Snapshot unsupported texture format issue
- Fixed issue with some OpenCL metrics
- Fixed issue calculating OpenGL ES Snapshot Frame Stats
- Fixed OpenGL ES Snapshot issue with missing drawcall metrics
Snapdragon Profiler 2023.2 Release Notes
- Added SDP process priority settings for QNX devices
- Fixed SDP startup issue affecting some configurations
- Fixed display of OpenGLES Shader Compilation Errors in Shader Stats View
- Fixed issue with OpenCL app when connecting to SDP
- Fixed Vulkan Snapshot filter issue in Data Explorer
- Fixed Trace View text/track alignment
- Fixed selection scroll issue in Options View
- Fixed selection and highlight colors in the Data Explorer
- Fixed issue selecting pipelines/programs with some OpenGLES Snapshots
- Fixed issue launching some 64-bit Vulkan apps on Android devices
- Fixed issue updating OpenGLES shader stats
- Fixed issue with metric deactivation after re-launching app
- Modified Data Explorer filter combo handling when only single option present
- Removed platform specific icons in various views
- Note: Users with older versions of GTK installed on their machines may have to manually uninstall those older versions if problems are experienced when running the latest installed version of SDP.
Snapdragon Profiler 2023.1 Release Notes
- Added Perfetto Trace Support for Android Q+ devices
- Converted SDP to 64-bit to help address memory limitations for captures
- Added more options to Snapshot Resource cost selection for deeper/targeted analysis
- Added shader stats tool-tip descriptions
- Fixed Vulkan Snapshot issue with missing dispatch metrics
- Fixed position of Realtime metric text printout for improved readability
- Fixed position of Trace track combo boxes for improved visibility
- Fixed Inspector View contents for Trace selections for easier analysis
- Fixed missing warning dialog when SDP session directory is not accessible
- Fixed OpenCL Trace metric auto-selection to improve usability
- Fixed Realtime System memory reporting accuracy
- Note: Users with older versions of GTK installed on their machines may have to manually uninstall those older versions if problems are experienced when running the latest installed version of SDP
Snapdragon Profiler 2022.5 Release Notes
- Added Vulkan Trace shader stats
- Added Vulkan Snapshot support for VK_ANDROID_external_memory_android_hardware_buffer extension
- Added Vulkan Snapshot support for VK_KHR_create_renderpass2 extension
- Added new shader stat for ray query operations
- Added additional Performance Hints to Vulkan API Trace
- Added Snapshot support for Vulkan compute pipelines
- Added Snapshot support for GL_EXT_fragment_shading_rate extension
- Fixed some issues with inconsistent OpenCL Trace metric values
- Fixed loading of Vulkan API Trace sessions
- Fixed ability to get multiple Vulkan API Traces per profiling session
- Fixed Performance Hint counts in Vulkan API Traces
- Fixed some OpenCL parameters appearing in wrong Data Explorer column
- Fixed handling of metrics in some concurrent binning scenarios
- Fixed Vulkan Trace handling with pre-recoded secondary command buffers
- Fixed Data Explorer empty parameter search handling
- Note: Users with older versions of GTK installed on their machines may have to manually uninstall those older versions if problems are experienced when running the latest installed version of SDP
Snapdragon Profiler 2022.4 Release Notes
- Added OpenCL support for Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 variants
- Added ability to export full / selected Trace data into CSV
- Updated Vulkan API Trace to latest Vulkan headers / extensions
- Updated Inspector View to show accumulated averages of selected Trace data
- Added new "% Wave Context Occupancy" metric for Realtime / Trace / Snapshot capture modes
- Fixed OpenGL ES Snapshot playback issue on some Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 variants
- Fixed Snapshot issue with some missing OpenGL ES API calls
- Fixed issue launching some OpenGL ES apps in Snapshot mode with recent versions of Android
- Fixed toggling of selected process filtering in Options view
- Fixed some Resource View sorting and filtering issues
- Fixed labelling issue with Expand / Collapse buttons in the Options view
- Note: Users with older versions of GTK installed on their machines may have to manually uninstall those older versions if problems are experienced when running the latest installed version of SDP
Snapdragon Profiler 2022.3 Release Notes
- Improved launch application dialog to include system installed apps (Android)
- Improved device support to include additional Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 variants
- Improved navigation of the Options view
- Improved reporting of some system metrics in Trace capture
- Fixed issue when modifying the real-time sampling frequency of system GPU metrics
- Fixed issue with some texture formats being incorrectly reported as N/A
- Fixed issue with Vulkan Snapshot shader stats on some devices
- Fixed metric reporting issue with some OpenGL ES Snapshots when glDrawElementsBaseVertex was used
- Note: Users with older versions of GTK installed on their machines may have to manually uninstall those older versions if problems are experienced when running the latest installed version of SDP.
Snapdragon Profiler 2022.2 Release Notes
- Added OpenGL ES Snapshot support for QCOM motion estimation and frame extrapolation extensions
- Added Vulkan Snapshot support for shader stats (on supported devices)
- Added ability to lock/unlock floating view windows
- Added support for profiling on devices with mitigations for CVE-2022-22075
- Fixed issues with layouts on 4k monitors
- Fixed missing Snapshot drawcall metrics for glDrawElementsBaseVertex (on supported devices)
- Improved Realtime metrics csv export
- Improved location of OpenCL Trace register spill warnings
Snapdragon Profiler 2022.1 Release Notes
- Added launch dialog option to enable/disable the Adreno Performance hints for Vulkan Traces
- Added bucket (workload) Trace mode for OpenGLES applications (on supported devices only)
- Added Sort and Filter by Format for Snapshot Capture Texture and Image Resources
- Added check for correct version of Mono for Linux and MacOS
- Added Trace support for CL/ML V2 API functions
- Added FTP device connection support for some AGL devices
- Added support for Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
- Fixed various UI elements to aid visibility and usability
- Fixed OpenGLES Snapshot issue with applications using variable-rate shading
- Fixed Saved Session issue with combined OpenCL / OpenGLES Trace metrics
- Fixed Trace issue with OpenCL conformance test captures
- Fixed Trace issue with display of concurrent binning pipe
- Improved performance for Traces when a high volume of data is to be displayed
- Improved performance of metric and process registration
- Note: Access new AGL FTP connection settings via the "File->Settings->AGL FTP" dialog
Snapdragon Profiler 2021.5 Release Notes
- Note: Linux and macOS require Mono 6.12 or greater
- Added drawcall/resource highlighting and accumulated resource cost to Vulkan Snapshot
- Added Adreno Layer Performance Hints to Vulkan API Trace
- Added ability to edit capture tab names
- Added support for concurrent binning Trace metric data (on supported devices)
- Added register spill warnings to OpenCL Trace capture
- Added ability to sort textures by size in the Snapshot Resource View
- Added workaround for OpenGLES Snapshots with limited access to local storage
- Fixed CPU overhead of API Trace Vulkan Layer
- Fixed issue causing a failure to Trace some OpenCL apps
- Fixed issue with some % Load-Store Busy / % Load-Store Utilization OpenCL Trace metric values on some devices
- Fixed displayed RenderMode for Compute Vulkan Traces
- Fixed Memory Load/Store Instructions in shader stats (with supported drivers)
- Fixed display of attached shaders in OpenGLES Snapshot Resource View
- Fixed missing dropdown menu in Snapshot Resource View
- Fixed issue sorting metric values in the Snapshot View
- Fixed issue refreshing Trace view after performing a new Trace
- Fixed issue showing attached shaders in some OpenGLES Snapshots
- Fixed issue displaying some debug groups in OpenGLES Snapshots
- Fixed issue sorting API calls in some multi-context OpenGLES Snapshots
- Fixed some missing trace metric data for some OpenCL API calls
- Fixed parameter formatting and display for some OpenCL API calls
- Fixed disappearing Snapshot selection combo from Resource View
- Fixed displaying of associated process name/id in Realtime/Trace Views
Snapdragon Profiler 2021.4.1 Release Notes
- Fixed issue with GPU realtime metrics on some QNX devices
Snapdragon Profiler 2021.4 Release Notes
- Added Trace capture support for the cl_qcom_ml_ops extension with OpenCL ML (with supported drivers)
- Added OpenCL Trace metrics to Trace/Graph View
- Added variable sampling period to Global Graphics Trace metrics (Android only)
- Added ability to sort Snapshot resources
- Fixed issue with missing OpenCL Trace data on OSX/Linux
- Fixed issue capturing OpenCL Trace data on apps with a short runtime (available in supported drivers)
- Fixed issue with OpenGL Snapshot resource filtering with used/bound array buffer objects
- Fixed issue with Tools->Top utility
- Fixed issue starting a new Trace after loading in a saved session
- Fixed issue retrieving the Snapshot pixel history on some devices
- Fixed issue with Snapshot drawcall replay on some devices
- Fixed regression handling Snapshots with very large number of programs (GLES)
- Fixed missing ProcessId in Trace metric tooltip
- Fixed Inspector View display of vkQueueSubmit CommandBufferIds
Snapdragon Profiler 2021.3 Release Notes
- Added Snapshot drawcall highlighting on resource selection (GLES)
- Added API association to per-process Trace metrics
- Added object labeling extension support to Vulkan API Trace
- Added global GPU metrics to Trace
- Added clock accumulation to Snapshot resources (GLES)
- Fixed Snapshot metrics missing for vkCmdDispatch
- Fixed Snapshot metrics missing for some Vulkan apps
- Fixed Trace metrics not appearing correctly for apps using both GLES and Vulkan
- Fixed inconsistent metric order in Trace/Data Explorer views between captures
- Fixed Layout and View menus are disabled when opening Saved Sessions with no device connection
- Fixed Trace context / thread filtering in the Data Explorer
- Fixed crash on exit after Vulkan Snapshot
- Fixed Preemptions / second metric missing for Trace and Snapshot
- Fixed Trace metric color picker updating all metric color buttons at once
- Known Regression: Problems handling Snapshots with very large number of programs (GLES)
Snapdragon Profiler 2021.2 Release Notes
- Added object label support for GLES and Vulkan Snapshots
- Fixed issue with Snapdragon Profiler hanging on shutdown
- Fixed Render Mode labeling for some Trace surfaces
- Fixed handling of OpenCL saved sessions
- Fixed various issues with OpenCL api Trace metrics
- Fixed issue generating Snapshot pixel history on some devices
- Fixed issue with Trace lasso selection
- Fixed inconsistent metric column order with consecutive OpenCL api Traces
- Fixed issue with some missing System->Trace->Graphics metrics
- Fixed issue with missing Snapshot metrics for some Vulkan drawcalls
- Fixed Trace default/highlight color issue
Snapdragon Profiler 2021.1 Release Notes
- Added ability to sort DataExplorer metric columns
- Updated drawcall filter in Data Explorer to list only drawcalls present in the capture
- Added realtime DSP-NPU system metrics for some devices
- Added additional metric support for OpenCL on some platforms
- Fixed Vulkan API trace capture data in saved sessions
- Fixed marker selection in trace view
- Fixed missing metrics when certain metric combinations were selected
- Fixed GPU Activity timestamps in saved sessions
- Fixed display of previous snapshot metrics after performing a new trace capture
- Fixed missing screenshot in saved sessions
- Fixed various miscellaneous issues with trace multi-select
- Fixed startup issue on Ubuntu / OSX
Snapdragon Profiler 2020.4.2 Release Notes
- Improved QNX device support
Snapdragon Profiler 2020.4 Release Notes
- Added ability to lasso/drag select in Trace view
- Improved Inspector View output for multiple selected items
- Added Pan/Select/Zoom toolbar buttons in Trace view
- Improved Vulkan Snapshot low memory support for various devices
- Improved OpenCL trace support for various devices
- Enable double click to open the saved sessions
Snapdragon Profiler v2020.3
- Improvements and fixes for Vulkan Snapshot frame captures
- Fixed an issue where Rendering Stages blocks were presented as multiple blocks for Blit and Compute
- Fixed an issue where some Graphics metrics were missing data in a Trace
- Fixed an issue where different types of Realtime metrics would jump ahead on the timeline
- Fixed a crash when capturing a Vulkan Trace after a Vulkan Snapshot frame capture
- Fixed System Trace Graphics metric on Android R
- Fixed issue with incorrect shader statistics on Adreno 6xx
- Removed unreliable Power consumption Realtime metrics
Snapdragon Profiler v2020.2
- Support for macOS Catalina. Additional installation information is available in the user guide.
- macOS and Linux products are now 64 bit
- Fix bug where some rendering stages blocks were split into two parts
- Fix crash on macOS/Linux if OpenCL metrics are unsupported on the device
Snapdragon Profiler v2020.1
- Better support for Vulkan snapshot on low memory devices. This fixes an issue where the app would crash while taking the snapshot because not enough memory was available on device to support both the app and snapshot library. The app may still crash if metrics are selected with the snapshot, however.
- Add support for Vulkan debug markers and end frame markers. Both require recent graphics drivers.
- Update libraries for graphics metrics and Vulkan snapshot.
- Reset Vulkan layer and updatable graphics driver settings on Profiler exit - please let Profiler exit properly if you are profiling Vulkan.
- UI improvements for trace capture timeline:
- Add auto scale button to toggle axis height based on data in view or entire data set.
- Show addresses in Vulkan API trace as hexadecimal.
- Add multi select to Rendering Stages blocks, to summarize time spent in Inspector.
- Incrementally number each surface in a frame in Rendering Stages trace.
- Fix crash if a device is disconnected before Profiler exits (Windows/Mac only).
- Fix crash when selecting some pipelines in Resources.
- Fix hang during long Vulkan API trace. Data will load in the background.
Snapdragon Profiler v2019.4
- Fixed launch of Vulkan apps in Android Q and some VR apps
- Fixed multiple issues for Rendering Stages data
- UI improvements for Gantt tracks (Rendering stages, etc.)
- Updated Vulkan snapshot and network libraries
- Fixed multiple SDP crashes and hangs
- Few other bug fixes
Snapdragon Profiler v2019.3
- Speed up the connection process
- Added ability to auto connect if a single device is detected
- Added support to display YUV EGL images
- Clarify when Launch Application button should be used
- Fixed issue where Vulkan returns no data after a few captures
- Fixed SDP crash when switching between trace and snapshot
- Fixed issue where used resources shown for a snapshot were incorrect
- Few other bug fixes
Snapdragon Profiler v2019.2
- Added ability to save/open sampling capture profiler session
- Added ability to open the profiler sessions from SDP folder (Need to zip the files in the SDP folder and open it through profiler)
- Added ability to save the client logs in the SDP folder
- Added ability to open window dialog boxes over the SDP main window
- Added status message to show in the resource view while data is being processed for Vulkan snapshot
- Improved snapshot resource view data loading and filtering
- Improved stability at time of device connection
- Improved timestamp accuracy of Vulkan API Trace/Rendering Stages in Trace
- Fixed issue with Vulkan API Trace not showing all/correct vkCommandBuffer values in GPU runtime/Queue submission
- Fixed SDP crash when saving all shaders to file
- Fixed issue with GPU Shader metrics showing zero value when used in conjunction with other related shader metrics in Trace
- Fixed SDP crashes with snapshot for different OpenGLES and Vulkan apps
- Other bug fixes
Snapdragon Profiler v2019.1
- Improved accuracy of CPU usage metrics.
- Fixed memory leaks when replaying drawcalls in Snapshot mode.
- Fixed GPU metrics on Pixel devices (requires GPU driver update).
- Fixed crashes on PCs with non-US locale settings.
- Fixed numerous timing correlation and data accuracy issues with GPU Rendering Stages traces.
- Reduced memory usage for Vulkan snapshots.
- Additional bug fixes.
Snapdragon Profiler v2018.4
- Vulkan Snapshot: show uniform data in the Program Inspector view when a pipeline object is selected in the Resource view.
- Added glDebugMessageInsert as a frame delimiter for OpenGL ES apps.
- Enabled DSP metrics on Snapdragon 855 devices.
- Fixed OpenGL drawcall replays with apps using the latest version of Unity.
- Fixed DDR frequency metric on Snapdragon 845 and 670 devices (requires root).
- Fixed GPU metrics on Google Pixel 3.
- Fixed incorrect GPU metrics on Snapdragon 855 devices.
- Fixed GPU temperature metric on Snapdragon 845 and 855 devices.
- Fixed incorrect OpenCL metrics on devices with Adreno 6xx GPUs.
Snapdragon Profiler v2018.3
- When using the Launch Application button the newly launched app is automatically selected in the data sources list
- In the Launch Application dialog, double clicking on the app name launches the app
- Vulkan Snapshot: Improved application compatibility and reliability
- Vulkan Snapshot: Improved Resource View filtering and usability
- Vulkan Snapshot: Populate the Shader Analyzer view when a pipeline object is selected
- Snapshot: Moved the Inspector window in the default layout so it is visible at the same time as the Resource View
- Added support for OpenCL profiling on more devices
- Many bug fixes
Snapdragon Profiler v2018.2
- Added support for Vulkan apps to Snapshot mode (beta)
- This is a beta release of Vulkan snapshot support, and as such there may still be some stability issues with the feature. There are also a number of snapshot related features for OpenGL apps that are not yet supported for Vulkan apps. More of these features will be implemented in future Profiler releases
- Improved Vulkan Trace functionality to work on non-rooted devices.
- Added snapshots to saved Snapdragon Profiler sessions. A session with one or more snapshots can now be saved and re-loaded in Profiler at a later time. This includes the ability to replay drawcalls from the snapshot (requires a connected device)
- Added handling of additional OpenGL API calls for Snapshot mode
- Added a histogram visualization for relevant statistics in Trace Analysis mode
- Improved the OpenGL API interceptor library that is packaged with Profiler. Also enabled this library by default (when using the Launch Application button in Profiler). Previously this was an experimental feature that was disabled by default.
- Added support for Android native tracing markers in Trace mode (see https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/tracing
- Improved handling of GPU rendering stages traces for multiple processes in the same trace capture
- Improved the OpenCL Kernel Analyzer to no longer require an OpenCL app running on the device
- 100+ bug fixes
Snapdragon Profiler v2018.1
- Added Analysis mode to view statistics on captured data
- Added experimental feature allowing applications to use the latest profiling layer (Android N+)
- Added additional Trace metrics across various subsystems of the SoC
- Improved context reporting for graphics applications
- Improved metric calculations for OpenCL applications
- Improved render target information in Inspector view for Rendering Stages Trace captures
- Improved overhead performance of graphics profiling layer
- Fixed 'Used' resource filter not displaying some resources for some graphics applications
- Fixed crash when toggling Resources view 'Used' and 'Bound' buttons
- Fixed crash while performing a Snapshot capture with metrics enabled for some graphics applications
- Fixed issue where various Realtime metrics kept running after application exit on device
- Fixed various issues in Snapshot affecting EGL images
- Fixed issue affecting Snapshot captures that created empty columns in Data Explorer for per-drawcall metrics
Snapdragon Profiler v2.2
- Added GPU realtime and OpenCL support for LE devices
- Improved time correlation between DSP and CPU in Trace captures
- Improved label description for DSP metrics
- Improved context tracking logic for multi-context OpenGL ES applications
- Fixed issue preventing Android Oreo devices from connecting after a session ended
- Fixed hanging on application shutdown when using Vulkan Trace captures
- Fixed issue preventing Snapshot Data Explorer from resetting OpenGL ES API filtering
Snapdragon Profiler v2.1
- Added ability to save/open profiler sessions currently supporting Realtime and Trace captures
- Added summary of time spent in each library/module for CPU Sampling captures
- Added support for compute and sensors alongside application DSP Trace and Realtime metrics
- Added 'DDR Frequency' Realtime metric
- Improved Power, Temperature and Memory metric data output
- Improved Sampling capture user interaction affecting simpleperf setup and process selection
- Improved Rendering Stages metric data labels in UI
- Improved thread reporting for graphics applications affecting Rendering Stages metric
- Fix sampling capture display incorrect process name
- Fix various issues with 'active resources' toggle affecting Resources view Snapshot captures
- Fix random crash on certain multi-context graphics applications while capturing Rendering Stages metric data
- Fix issue with Vulkan Trace metrics not enabling in subsequent Trace captures
- Fix issue preventing Sampling captures on unrooted devices
- Fix crash when capturing DSP metrics from multiple DSP processors
- Fix issue allowing Vulkan Rendering Stages metric enabling on devices without support for it
Snapdragon Profiler v2.0
- Added new Sampling mode with per-process CPU sampling
- Added new CPU real-time metrics for rooted devices
- Cycles/Instruction
- Cache Miss Ratio
- Cycles
- Instructions
- Cache References
- Cache Misses
- Branch Misses
- Task Clock
- Clock
- Context Switches
- Page Faults
- Fixed crash when importing previously captured sessions
- Fixed crash when switching Data Explorer content source
- Fixed crash with Vulkan applications on device initialization
- Fixed crash when visualizing compute shaders in Snapshot captures
- Fixed crash in Snapdragon Profiler client when using latest Mono version on OSX
- Fixed crash on application when shader statistics are requested
- Fixed issue with incomplete Snapshot captures for multi-context OpenGL ES applications
- Fixed issue replaying previously captured Snapshots
- Fixed issue with real-time metrics showing data in wrong track
- Fixed various issues with real-time metrics not working when application is sent to background and restarted
- Fixed issue with missing API calls in Data Explorer for Snapshot captures of multi-context applications
- Fixed issues with CPU metrics not capturing correctly if CPU cores are disabled
- Fixed issue with Vulkan Trace captures showing old capture data on new captures
- Fixed compute program uniforms not shown in Program Inspector for Snapshot captures
- Fixed Snapshot captures of multi-context OpenGL ES applications not showing per-drawcall metrics with the correct API calls
- Fixed Trace captures of multi-context OpenGL ES applications not displaying the correct context ID when using Rendering Stages metric
- Fixed issue with missing OpenCL metrics