<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1e29d663-d62c-44fe-8897-43ea694c515b/77870CD4-B541-41AF-9C65-9BF31B249440/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvshaderperf_home.html" href="http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvshaderperf_home.html" style="font-size: 11px;">developer.nvidia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvshaderperf_home.html"><DIV> <IMG width="153" height="1" border="0" src="http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/TEMPLATE/429/divider.gif" alt="" /> <DIV>Last Updated: 03/06/2007</DIV> <H1>NVIDIA ShaderPerf 2 Alpha</H1><P><IMG border="0" align="right" src="http://developer.nvidia.com/docs/IO/12463/ShaderPerf2Screenshot.JPG" alt="ShaderPerf2Screenshot.JPG" />NVIDIA ShaderPerf is a handy utility that reports detailed shader performance metrics for a wide range of inputs.  It is available both as a command line utility and with a user interface in FX Composer.</p> <P>ShaderPerf 2.0 includes several new features:</p> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Vertex shader analysis</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Support for new drivers</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Support for multiple driver versions</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Smaller download</LI></UL> <P>ShaderPerf outputs the following:</p> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Cycle count</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Register usage</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Driver-optimized shader instruction list</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Vertex and pixel throughput estimates</LI></UL> <P>Please note that ShaderPerf 2.0 Alpha only supports DirectX shaders written in HLSL or assembly. </p> <P>If you need support for additional input formats, please use <A href="http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvshaderperf_1_8_home.html"><FONT color="#800080">ShaderPerf 1.8</FONT></A>.  Additional input formats for ShaderPerf 2.0 will be coming soon.</p> <P>[<A href="http://developer.download.nvidia.com/tools/ShaderPerf/NVShaderPerfInstaller_NVR100_2.01.0305.1925.exe">Download</A>] ShaderPerf (Build 2.01.0305.1925)</p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/77870CD4-B541-41AF-9C65-9BF31B249440/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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