Imagination and Tencent WeTest launch in-depth cooperation to help obtain key GPU reports

Imagination and Tencent WeTest launch in-depth cooperation to help developers obtain key GPU reports

WeTest’s PerfDog tool adds over 80 GPU counters for all platforms and architectures, providing developers with detailed interpretation of PowerVR GPU data indicators

London, UK and Shenzhen, China, September 27, 2021 – Imagination Technologies announced that it has deepened its cooperation with WeTest, a quality service brand under Tencent, to add more than 80 GPU counters for all platforms (Android/iOS) and all architectures to the new version 6.0 of WeTest's PerfDog tool to help developers obtain detailed PowerVR GPU key data reports. The two parties will also jointly launch a series of online public welfare courses for developers - Overview of GPU and related technologies, to build a platform for learning and communication for developers and practitioners.

PerfDog is a mobile full-platform professional performance optimization and improvement tool launched by WeTest to meet developers' performance testing needs. It began to be used by all internal teams of Tencent in July 2018. After five major version iterations, PerfDog 6.0 was fully commercialized in September 2021.

To better ensure that developers have a high-quality R&D environment and product quality, PerfDog has teamed up with Imagination in the latest 6.0 version to develop a basic information acquisition function for PowerVR GPUs (adding more than 80 GPU Counters for all platforms and architectures), which can help developers more easily obtain accurate and detailed GPU key parameters, so as to timely discover, locate and solve problems to achieve performance optimization.

PowerVR GPU is Imagination's most representative product. It is in the market leading position in terms of technical capabilities, roadmap breadth and ecosystem, setting the benchmark for mobile and embedded GPUs. PowerVR graphics technology is based on a complex and unique architecture. Through block-delayed rendering (TBDR) technology, PowerVR can achieve the lowest bandwidth utilization and the shortest single task processing cycle, thereby achieving high performance efficiency and the lowest power consumption per frame.

Cao Wensheng, technical director of Tencent WeTest PerfDog, said: “As an industry-leading quality service brand officially produced by Tencent Interactive Entertainment, the Tencent WeTest team and Imagination share the same vision in the pursuit of high quality and high standards. The newly added GPU Counter is just the first step in the cooperation between the two parties. In the future, we will work together to achieve more in-depth information mining. At the same time, as an industry leader in Ray Tracing technology, Imagination can also work with PerfDog to provide developers with optimization and improvement for this new technology.”

In order to let more developers and practitioners understand GPU and related technologies, and to conduct better technical discussions and exchanges, Imagination and WeTest will jointly launch a series of online public welfare courses for developers. This series of courses includes PowerVR architecture overview, PowerVR tools and SDK, 3D graphics, PowerVR performance recommendation guide and hardware-level ray tracing, and will also introduce how to use PerfDog to interpret GPU indicator data. Anyone interested in the series of courses can register and watch for free.

Liu Guojun, Vice President and General Manager of Imagination Technologies China, said: “We are very pleased to work with Tencent WeTest team to add new GPU-oriented features to its PerfDog tool. Imagination has more than 30 years of R&D experience in the GPU field, and our pioneering spirit of always pursuing technological leadership is the reason why we are deeply recognized by the industry. Imagination and WeTest will play their respective advantages to provide developers with full convenience through optimized PerfDog performance testing services and GPU series public welfare courses.”

About Tencent WeTest

Tencent WeTest quality open platform is a one-stop testing service platform officially produced by Tencent Interactive Entertainment. It has a gold medal expert team and more than 10 years of quality management experience. It is committed to quality standard construction and product quality improvement, and has been tempered by thousands of Tencent games. WeTest integrates excellent tools such as compatibility, cloud real machine, performance, security, and Penguin Wind Information, covering the testing needs of games at all stages of development and operation, and comprehensively guarantees product quality through 5 dimensions and 41 indicators.

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About Imagination Technologies

Imagination is a UK-based company dedicated to creating semiconductor and software intellectual property (IP) to enable customers to gain sufficient advantages in the highly competitive global technology market. The company's graphics, computing, vision and artificial intelligence technologies can achieve outstanding PPA (power consumption, performance and area) indicators, strong security, fast time to market and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people around the world in their mobile phones, cars, homes and workplaces.