AMD uProf is a performance analysis tool for applications running on Windows and Linux operating systems. It allows developers to better understand the runtime performance of their application and to identify ways to improve its performance.
AMD uProf offers:
- Performance Analysis
- CPU Profiling – to identify runtime performance bottlenecks of the application.
- Energy Analysis
- Power Application Analysis – to identify energy hotspots in the application (Windows only).
- Power Profiling
- System-wide Power Profiling – to monitor the thermal and power characteristics of the system.
- System Analysis
- Performance Counter Monitor utility – to monitor system performance metrics (Linux & FreeBSD only)
AMD uProf can effectively be used to:
- Analyze the performance of one or more processes or the entire system
- Track down the performance bottlenecks (hotspots & micro-architecture) in the source code
- Identify ways to optimize the source code for better performance and power efficiency
- Examine the behavior of kernel, drivers and system modules
- Analyze Thread concurrency
- Observe frequency, thermal and power characteristics (Power profiling)
- Observe system metrics like IPC, Core effective frequency, memory bandwidth, etc.
What’s New
- Flame Graph – a callstack trace visualizer to identify hot call-paths
- Support Linux kernel profiling and kernel-space drivers
- Improved symbol discovery for Linux system libraries
- Remote Profiling:
- Target OS: Linux & Host OS: Windows
- Callgraph window in GUI
- New platform support for performance and power profiling
- 3rd Gen AMD RyzenTM Desktop Processor
- 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPU
- GUI feature to search function names in ANALYZE page
- New OS support
- openSUSE Leap 15, SLES 12 & 15
- Windows 10 (May 2019 Update), Windows Server 2019
Specifications
Processors
- AMD CPU & APU Processors
- Discrete GPUs: Graphics IP 7 GPUs, AMD Radeon 500 Series, FirePro models (Power Profiling Only)
Operating Systems
AMD uProf supports the 64-bit version of the following Operating Systems:
- Microsoft
- Windows 7
- Windows 10 (up to May 2019 Update)
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Linux
- Ubuntu 16.04 & later
- RHEL 7.0 & later
- openSUSE Leap 15.0
- SLES 12 & 15
- CentOS 7.0 & later
Compilers and Application Environment
AMD uProf supports the following application environment:
- Languages:
- C, C++, Fortran, Assembly
- Java, .NET
- Programs compiled with
- Microsoft compilers
- GNU compilers
- LLVM
- AMD’s AOCC
- Intel compilers
- Applications compiled with and without optimization and/or debug information
Performance Analysis
AMD uProf profiler follows a statistical sampling-based approach to collect profile data to identify the performance bottlenecks in the application. The profile data collection can be triggered by – 6OS timer, core PMC events, and IBS. AMD uProf offers user-friendly UI to view and analyze the profile data thereby helps to optimize a wide variety of applications, drivers, game engines, etc.
AMDuProf’ s ANALYZE page to view the performance data at the process, module and function level
AMDuProf’ s SOURCE page to view the performance data correlated to source lines
AMDuProf’ s Flame graph window to identify the hot call-paths
Power Profiling
AMD uProf profiler can be used to monitor the frequency, thermal and energy metrics of various components in the system. The GUI offers live timeline graphs of various metrics in TIMECHART page
AMDuProf’ s TIMECHART page to plot the live power metrics
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