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Appendix: Enhancing <strong>Graphics</strong> Performance on <strong>Intel</strong>® Processor <strong>Graphics</strong> with <strong>Intel</strong>® GPA<br />

2 Appendix: Enhancing <strong>Graphics</strong><br />

Performance on <strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

Processor <strong>Graphics</strong> with <strong>Intel</strong>®<br />

GPA<br />

<strong>Intel</strong> actively engages with members of the <strong>Intel</strong>® Software Partner Program.<br />

Participation in the program provides independent software vendors, who develop<br />

commercial software applications on <strong>Intel</strong> technology, with a portfolio of benefits to<br />

support them across the entire product planning cycle - from planning, to developing,<br />

to marketing and selling of their application.<br />

This program has provided a long list of commercial applications with engineering<br />

support from <strong>Intel</strong> with a wide range of work focusing on performance optimizations<br />

most recently focusing on multi-core and graphics. Games have long been a focus as<br />

a high-performance version of software running on in the consumer space. The<br />

following sections provide an in-depth look at the results of two such project<br />

engagements.<br />

2.1 Case Study: 777 Studio - Rise of Flight<br />

Customer Testimonial By Sergey Vorsin (777 Studio)<br />

777 Studio is a young, creative Russian game development company which recently<br />

created a modern combat flight simulation game, Rise of Flight* has merited<br />

international success and critical praise, reaching more than 80 countries around the<br />

world. As a lead programmer at 777 Studio, I share my experiences using <strong>Intel</strong> ®<br />

<strong>Graphics</strong> Performance Analyzers (<strong>Intel</strong>® GPA) to find rendering pipeline bottlenecks<br />

and optimize game performance.<br />

Two scenes were the target for my optimization efforts. After analyzing a frame from<br />

the first scene with <strong>Intel</strong>® GPA, performance was increased nearly 70% for that<br />

frame, from 41 frames per second (fps) to 69fps. Similarly, the second scene<br />

improved 55%, from 40fps to 62fps. After completion of 777 Studio‟s game<br />

optimization using <strong>Intel</strong>® GPA, Rise of Flight now runs about 15% faster across the<br />

board, with some components running nearly 50% faster.<br />

How to maximize graphics performance on <strong>Intel</strong>® Integrated <strong>Graphics</strong> 45

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