PowerVR SDK v3.5 is live, adds support for Android Extension Pack

By Developer Technology Team - Imagination Blog, May. 05, 2015 – 

PowerVR SDK v3.5 marks our first release for 2015 and is now live on our community page. We?ve made some significant improvements to several of the utilities and the SDK.

In this release, support has been added to PVRVFrame for Android Extension Pack (AEP) as well as new hardware profiles including the Google Nexus Player, Dell Venue 8 3840, Lenovo K900 and Onda V972. In PVRTune, a new set of counters has been defined for the PowerVR Series6 family to make both high-level and low-level analysis easier. Additionally, the counters are now categorized under Overview, GPU Advanced, Renderer, Shader for simplified navigation.

PVRTrace features optimized memory usage as well as an enhanced user interface, with a new draw call inspector and better render state machine analysis and browsing. In PVRTexTool, we have added support for ASTC. PVRShaderEditor now supports OpenCL profiling and disassembly for PowerVR Rogue GPUs.

PVRHub supports 64-bit CPU architectures and also has an updated configuration file format and relaxed requirements for superuser.

The SDK now provides out of the box support for Google?s Android Studio IDE.

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