cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/PCGaming/t/356958

This video talks about new tools added to the Open Source PresentMon initiative, adding the capability to monitor a new metric called "GPU Busy." In the video, we explain the rendering pipeline for frames, including discussion about game engines (e.g. Unreal Engine 5) CPU, GPU, and DirectX or API involvement in taking data and composing a frame presented to the player. This is a technical discussion with Tom Petersen, Senior Fellow (engineering) at Intel, who explains the new tools and how they can be used by end users and reviewers alike. As these are completely vendor agnostic and open source, we can apply these to reviews of all CPUs or GPUs (in Windows), and likewise the users can run PresentMon for all hardware at home. Intel hardware is not required. As background, PresentMon has already been around for many years now and is what many reviewers use for their benchmark and reviews process.

  • lickmysword@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    After recently buying a used 6800xt amd’s software and included overlay are wonderful. Now another overlay that’s opensourced and can work with any GPU? That’s fricken sweet.

  • PenguinTD@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    unfortunately it wouldn’t be really helpful for developers with the current stats available, and for consumer it seems that it gears more toward overclocking with the voltage/temp output?