NVIDIA releases first public beta of PerfHUD 5

[B3D News]

NVIDIA has just released the first public beta of PerfHUD 5, its performance profiling tool for Windows.

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[ShaidarHaran]

Dumb question (perhaps) does this software require one to have an NV-powered graphics card? I ask because of the "instrumented driver".
I'm not a dev, I just think this would be a useful performance analysis tool.

 

[Tim Murray]

Dumb question (perhaps) does this software require one to have an NV-powered graphics card? I ask because of the "instrumented driver".
I'm not a dev, I just think this would be a useful performance analysis tool.

Well, yeah. It's similar to PIX in that it accesses specific counters on the card, but there are certainly not AMD drivers for it...

 

[ShaidarHaran]

kthx
guess I'll just use GPU Shader Analyzer for now