GPU Caps Viewer 1.16.0 - Changelog

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.16.0:

April 12th, 2012

· New: add full support of GeForce GTX 680 (base and boost clocks, power consumption).
· Update: detailed report (Tool panel) now includes all available graphics adapters as well as GTX 680 features.
· Update: minor changes in the interface (GPU panel).
· Update: ZoomGPU 1.8.1 (GPU monitoring lib).
· Bugfix: fixed a minor bug related to the display of the Intel logo for Intel GPUs (or S3 logo for S3 GPUs).
· Bugfix: fixed a crash with some non-OpenGL 4 drivers.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.15.1:

March 9th, 2012

· New: support of Radeon HD 7770, HD 7750, HD 7870 and HD 7850.
· Bugfix: typo error in GLSL shader validation utility (Pixel shader in place of Geometry shader).
· Update: ZoomGPU 1.7.0 (GPU monitoring lib).

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.15.0:

February 6th, 2012

· New: (re)added GLSL shader validation utility (vertex, pixel, geometry, tess control and tess eval) in the Tools panel.
· New: added detection of Intel Ivy Bridge HD Graphics 4000 GPUs.
· New: added detection of some AMD mobility GPUs (WinterPark, BeaverCreek).
· Update: ZoomGPU 1.6.3

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.14.6:

January 24th, 2012

· New: added support of Radeon HD 7970.
· Bugfix: in OpenCL, the value for CL_DEVICE_IMAGE3D_MAX_DEPTH was wrong
· Update: ZoomGPU 1.6.2

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.14.4:

November 14th, 2011

· Bugfix: GeForce/Radeon cards information was not correctly displayed on the first panel when the first GPU was not a GeForce or a Radeon one (an Intel for example).
· Change: Julia 4D OpenCL kernel updated

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.14.2:

September 17th, 2011

· Bugfix: crash on non-OpenGL 3.2 capable graphics cards.
· Other minors changes

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.14.1:

September 17th, 2011

· New: added support of Radeon HD 6770 (Juniper XT) and HD 6750 (Juniper PRO).
· Change: added the fetching of new OpenGL capabilities (in glMAXXX module). Capabilities by OpenGL versions and by extensions are separatly displayed in the report.
· Bugfix: in TXT report export, removed a blank lines.
· Bugfix: in GPU panel, graphics cards other than GeForce/Radeon (like Intel GPUs) were not displayed.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.14.0:

August 19th, 2011

· New: added support of multiple GPUs in the first panel
· New: added support of OpenGL 4.2
· New: added a new module in the OpenGL panel called glMAXXX to list all OpenGL caps (max values).
· New: added all OpenGL caps (max values) in the report.
· New: added txt file format for report export.
· Bugfix: in OpenCL extensions list: removed the empty extension.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.13.0:

June 18th, 2011

· The export of the XML report in command line (I added a batch file to export the report –Export_XML_Report.bat). The support of Radeon HD 6250 (AMD Brazos APU) has been added as well as some recent GeForce cards. And for future ROG MATRIX GTX 580 users, the character string “ASUS ROG MATRIX GTX 580″ is displayed in the renderer field in place of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.12.0:

May 18th, 2011

· New: added support of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560.
· New: added support of AMD Radeon HD 6670 and HD 6570.
· New: added simple real time monitoring of the primary GPU (for GeForce and Radeon cards).
· New: added GPU usage for Radeon cards.
· Bugfix: in fan speed reading for Radeon cards.
· Bugfix: in report for Radeon clock speeds.
· Change: minor changes in OpenCL information.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.10.2:

March 24th, 2011

· Adds the support of GeForce GTX 550 Ti and GTX 590.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.10.1:

March 21st, 2011

· Two minor updates: the support of AMD Radeon HD 6990 and the branch version of NVIDIA graphic driver

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.10.0:

February 8th, 2011

· Supoport for GeForce GT 440
· Improved OpenCL Support

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.6:

January 27th, 2011

· New: added support of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti.
· New: for NVIDIA cards, added the memory bus width.
· Change: GPU Shark 0.4.0
· Bugfix: now OpenGL 2.x demos work properly with latest graphics drivers.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.5:

December 27th, 2010

· New: added support of AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950.
· Bugfix: in memory size for Radeon cards.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.4:

November 5th, 2010

· New: added support of GeForce GTX 580.
· New: added Sapphire, XFX and HP subvendors.
· New: added GPU, memory and MCU usage monitoring
· New: added fan speed monitoring
· Change: reorganization of the first panel (GPU info only).
· Bugfix: in some OpenGL 2 GLSL shaders with Intel GPUs.
· Bugfix: in number of GL and WGL extensions.
· Updated with ZoomGPU 1.5.10.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.3:

October 28th, 2010

· New: added support of AMD Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850.
· New: added support of NVIDIA GeForce GT 430, and GT 440.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.2:

September 18th, 2010

· New: added NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 in the database.
· Change: in OpenGL panel, the real OpenGL name is used for capabilities (ex: GL_MAX_LIGHTS or GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE).
· Bugfix: fixed a typo bug for the max texture buffer size: MTexels instead of MB.
· Change: GPU Shark updated to the 0.2.4 version. GPU Shark can be launched via the [Advanced GPU monitoring] button.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.9.0:

August 7th, 2010

· New: added OpenGL 4 GPU tessellation demo (PRO version users can play with the tessellation levels).
· New: added NVIDIA Tesla C2050 in the database.
· Update: links to OpenGL registry (GL 4 extensions).
· Change: use of the debug bit in the creation of the OpenGL 3 or OpenGL 4 context.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.9:

August 2nd, 2010

· New: added the support of OpenGL 4.1
· New: added in OpenCL panel, the selection of the current device index for the demos.
· New (PRO version only): a command line option allows to select the OpenCL device on which running the OpenCL kernels. This option is useful if you have several OpenCL capable GPUs. By default the first device is used (OpenCL device 0). The command line param is /cl_device_index=n where n ranges from 0 to # of GPU/CPU – 1.
· New: added NVIDIA Quadro 5000 to the database.
· Update: minor changes in OpenCL related code.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.8:

July 24th, 2010

· New: added the support of GTX 465 and 460.
· New: a button to launch an advanced GPU monitoring tool has been added in the first panel (GPU/CPU).
· New: in OpenGL panel, the number of GL and WGL extensions is displayed.
· New: added new subvendors: Zotac, Palit and Gigabyte.
· Change: OpenGL extensions are now fetched with the method described here
· Change: now the max values of CPU, memory and shader (shader: NV only) clocks and VDDC are displayed for Radeon and GeForce cards.
· Change: minor updates in the code of the OpenCL demos for a good working with latest NV and AMD drivers.
· Bugfix: in the first panel, only the features of first OpenCL device are displayed.
· Update: compiled with the latest version of ZoomGPU and GLEW.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.6:

April 23rd, 2010

· New: added support for GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470.
· New: added the TDP (thermal power design) for recent NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards.
· New: added the number of SM (NVIDIA) or SIMD (ATI).
· Bugfix: GL 3.x demos could not start with and GL 4.0 context…
· Bugfix: Windows version detection (Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7).
· Bugfix: in main panel, the clock speed of CUDA engines was wrong.
· Bugfix: in the OpenCL surface deformer demo, the type (size_t) of some kernel arguments has been replaced by unsigned int.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.2:

December 30th, 2009

· Bugfix: OpenGL 3 context creation with old OpenGL 3.0 drivers like forceware 186.18. The bug led to an infinite loop.
· Bugfix: number of shader processors of Radeon HD 4830 in GPU database fixed.
· New: if OpenCL CPU is supported, the OpenCL checkbox caption is renamed in OpenCL(CPU).
· Change: improved OpenCL platforms management for the creation of OpenCL context in demos.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.1:

December 23rd, 2009

· Change: added the use of the GL interop preview available in ATI Stream SDK v2.0.0 for Julia 4D and 1M Particle demos. But due to some instability, the GL interop is not enabled by default. To enable GL interop, start GPU Caps with the batch file Start_OpenCL_With_GLInterop.bat.
· New: added a command line parameter to disable OpenCL support (/disable_cl_support).
· Bugfix: added the specification of context properties in clCreateContextFromType (instead of NULL) for ATI Stream SDK v2.0.0.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.8.0:

December 18th, 2009

· New: added four OpenCL GPU / CPU demos. These demos use an OpenGL 3.1 or 3.2 code path.
· New: added two OpenGL 3 demos.
· New: added OpenCL panel for OpenCL capable devices.
· New: for Radeon, display of core and memory frequencies (idle / UVD / 3D).
· New: added GPU Computing checkboxes.
· New: reorganization of the first panel to display essential information.
· Change: reorganization of the first panel to display essential information.
· Change: updated OpenGL extensions database links.
· Change: updated GPU database with latest GeForce, Radeon and Intel.
· Change: Mb in MB…
· Removed Show PhysX Properties button
· Bugfix: Bugfix: OpenGL version in xml report fixed.
· Bugfix: wrong system memory size for system with more than 2GB

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.7.0:

April 15th, 2009

· New: added NVIDIA CUDA panel for GeForce 8/9/GT200 videocards.
· Change: furry torus replaced by a furry box!
· Change: updated OpenGL extensions database links.
· Change: update graphics cards database with ForceWare 185.xx and Catalyst 9.4 (support of GeForce GTX 275 and Radeon HD 4890).

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.6.2:

November 7th, 2008

· New: added Radeon HD 4850 X2 to ZoomGPU database.
· Change: OpenGL extensions and XML report dialog boxes have been resized to fit the screen of some ultra laptops like the eeePC (1024x600).
· Bugfix: online submission was disabled...

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.6.0:

October 21st, 2008

· New: button in first tab to display PhysX control panel.
· New: graphics hardware detection code is now done by the ZoomGPU engine.
· Change: Geometry Instancing support detection for ATI Radeon graphics cards (read more HERE). Now with Catalyst 8.11 the geometry instancing demo works fine on Radeon.
· Change: added ForceWare 178.24 and Catalyst 8.10 to database.
· Bugfix: in driver version detection.

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.5.0:

July 25th, 2008

· New: added new demo: HW Geometry Instancing. Works with GeForce 8 (and higher), S3 Graphics Chrome 400 series (430 GT, 440 GTX). This demo requires the support of Shader Model 4.0
· New : added command line parameters to set the default size of demos's window. Example: c:>gpucapsviewer /width=1920 /height=1200
· Change: improved HDR demo with radial blur.
· Change: density of mesh plane (500k triangles) in the Vertex Texture Fetching demo. This demo works fine with NVIDIA GeForce 6 , S3 Graphics Chrome 400 (430 GT and 440 GTX) and should work one day with Radeon 2k/3k (bug in Catalyst?).
· Bugfix: render target init for ATI and S3 Graphics (HDR demo).
· New: added a simple splashscreen to give some startup information.
· New: added NVIDIA PhysX driver detection.
· Bugfix: msaa was set to 2X at initialization and this value prevents a correct init of S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT.
· Bugfix: small bug in the detection of GPU Caps Viewer version.
· Bugfix: in opengl extensions list box, driver information was not correct.
· Bugfix: small bug in drivers detection (XP and Vista).
· Bugfix: small bug in GPU Caps Viewer installer (new version tries to install into old folder).
· Change: added ForceWare 177.66 and Catalyst 8.7 to database.
· Change: added detection of GeForce GTX 260/280 and Radeon 4850/4870/4870 X2.
· Change: version 1.5.0
· Known issue: under Vista the temperature for GeForce based graphics cards is not displayed

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.4.1:

January 11th, 2008

· Bugfix: crash when graphics card was not recognized (some non-NVIDIA/ATI cards such as Intel, SiS, XGI, ...).

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.3.0:

November 1st, 2007

· New: added four new OpenGL stress test demos.
· New: GPU core temperature available for all NVIDIA cards (Geforce 5/6/7/8 ) and for ATI Radeon 2k series and up.
· New: added new GPU codenames for NVIDIA/ATI boards
· New: check for new version done at startup.
· Updated: weblinks
· Improved: NVIDIA drivers detection.
· Changed: Sytem CPU tab merged with Graphics Adapter GPU tab
· Removed: redondent information in Graphics Adapter /GPU panel (video memory size and drivers version).
· Removed: GPU ambient and upper limit temperatures (Graphics Adapter /GPU panel).

What's new in GPU Caps Viewer 1.2.0 Build Jun 27.2007:

June 29th, 2007

· Feature: added new links (reviews, latest forceware and catalyst drivers).
· Feature: added GLSL shaders validation test in Tools tab. You can test the loading of a vertex or pixel shader written in GLSL.
· Feature: added AMD/ATI R600 GPU detection .