Update 2/18/98: Intel announces the availability of the IPEAK family of platform
performance tools. 

Ordering and pricing information

The IPEAK Graphics Toolkit provides an integrated GUI environment for analyzing and improving graphics hardware and software performance on the Intel Architecture platform.
It is comprised of two tools: IPEAK Graphics Performance Tool (GPT) and Intel Baseline AGP System Evaluation Suite (IBASES)

IPEAK Graphics Performance Tool

3D hardware accelerator performance measurement allows the user to understand the maximum performance available from a specific 3D hardware accelerator. Rasterization attributes from shading to filtering to texturing can be selected to match the user’s desired attribute combinations. All measurements are performed using industry standard 3D APIs–Microsoft’s Direct3D*, and OpenGL*.

Application workload analysis and statistics allow the user to understand exactly how the application is interacting with the API and 3D hardware accelerator. What functions that are called in the API–Direct3D or OpenGL– as well as the primitive data submitted for rendering, and the rasterization attributes are analyzed in order to understand the exact workload created by the application. The general performance of the application, measured in frame rate, is also investigated at several points in order to determine further performance problems due to underperforming hardware, lack of application content, or the application causing problems with the hardware accelerator.

Key Features

• Measure and analyze the performance of graphics hardware and software
• 3D Application workload analysis, statistics, and playback

System Requirement

• Windows* 95
• DirectX 5.0

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