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Game Developers Conference

Up Your Game! Know Your


Intel GPU Architecture
Pamela Harrison
Software Technical Consulting Engineer, Intel® GPA
Stanislav Volkov
Software Architect, Intel® GPA
Agenda for Today
Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers (Intel® GPA) Overview

What’s New

Execution Unit (EU)

Intel® GPA Profiling

Summary

Resources
What is Intel® GPA?
Tool suite for analyzing games and other real-time graphics applications.
Locate graphics bottlenecks

System Analyzer Graphics Trace


Analyzer
Graphics Frame Analyzer

Intel® GPA Framework

software.intel.com/gpa
Multi-GPU support

Graphics Trace Analyzer


• Sync highlighting and arrows: Signal,
What’s Render, Present packages
• Activity indicators (percent/time)
New Graphics Frame Analyzer
• Multi-frame support (stream mode)
• Render Target Dependency View
for Direct3D 11

Intel® GPA Plugin for Unreal Engine


EU
Architecture

Architecture Latency vs. Metrics


Overview Stall
Execution Unit (EU) Overview

Shared Functions Copy Engine Media Engine


General Register File
Sub-slice Sub-slice Sub-slice Sub-slice
(GRF)
Thread Dispatch Thread Dispatch Thread Dispatch Thread Dispatch
Slot 0 ALU0
EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU
Slot 1
EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU
Slot 2
EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU
Slot 3
EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU EU
Slot 4
Slot 5 ALU1
Dataport

Dataport

Dataport

Dataport
Sampler

Sampler

Sampler

Sampler
Slot 6
SLM

SLM

SLM

SLM
Pixel Back - End Pixel Back - End
Branch
L3 Cache Thread Control
SEND
Execution Unit (EU) Overview

General Register File


• 7 Thread (GRF)
Slots Slot 0 ALU0
Slot 1
• 128 registers x Slot 2
32B = 4KB per Slot 3
Slot Slot 4
Slot 5 ALU1
• Each slot can Slot 6
run a different
shader
Branch
• More threads
= more latency Thread Control
hiding SEND
Execution Unit (EU) Overview

General Register File


• ALU0 (FPU0):
(GRF)
Slot 0
ALU0 • float16, int8, int16
Slot 1 @SIMD16
Slot 2 • float32, int32
Slot 3 @SIMD8
Slot 4
Slot 5 ALU1
Slot 6
• ALU1 (FPU1/EM):
• Transcendental
Math operations
Branch
• float32 @ SIMD2
Thread Control
SEND
Execution Unit (EU) Overview

General Register File


(GRF)
Slot 0
ALU0
Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3 Processes send
Slot 4 instructions:
Slot 5 ALU1
Slot 6 • Read, write and
service
operations
Branch
Thread Control • Cause high
SEND execution
latency
Latency vs. Stall

Thread 1 MAD SEND MAD


Latency vs. Stall

Thread 1 MAD SEND MAD

Thread 2 MAD SEND


Latency vs. Stall

Hidden Latency Hidden Latency

Thread 1 MAD SEND MAD

Thread 2 MAD SEND


Latency vs Stall

Hidden Latency Stall Hidden Latency

Thread 1 MAD SEND MAD

Thread 2 MAD SEND


EU Performance Observability
1 2

General Register File In Graphics Frame Analyzer


(GRF)
Slot 0 ALU0
Slot 1
Metrics are averaged across all EUs
Slot 2
over the time measured:
Slot 3
Slot 4 ▪ EU Thread Occupancy, % - percent
1 of thread slots in use
Slot 5 ALU1
Slot 6

2 ▪ EU Active, % - ALU0 or ALU1


executing an instruction
Branch
Thread Control 3 ▪ EU Stall, % - at least one thread
loaded, but no instruction executed
SEND

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Intel® GPA
Profiling

Hotspot Thread
Shader
Analysis Dispatch
Profiler
Problem
Automatic Hotspot Analysis
Hotspot Example: L3 Cache
Hotspot Example: L3 Cache
Hotspot Example: Shader Execution
Hotspot Example: Shader Execution
Hotspot Example: Thread Dispatch
Hotspot Example: Thread Dispatch
Hotspot Example: Thread Dispatch
Hotspot Example: Thread Dispatch

SIMD8

SIMD16
Up Your Game!

Understand
Understand Help
Your
Hardware
Your Profiler Increase
Performance
Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzers

Product Site – Overview, features, what’s new…


software.intel.com/gpa

Resources Training – Tutorials, Quick tips, Articles, Workshops


software.intel.com/gpa/training

Support – Connect with experts in community forums

Free Download software.intel.com/gpa


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