Hi all,
I am working on power consumption about android games. I think GPU consumes more power than other units when playing games.
I want to know if Mail Graphics Debugger could provide some information about the load of GPU and what cause this situation, thus we are easy to optimize our games
Hi Kevin,
Generally we'd suggest looking at something like Streamline to find out what areas of your system are heavily loaded when running your game, and therefore find out what areas to optimize to reduce power consumption. For some advice on best practices to ensure efficient use of the GPU, you can refer to the Mali Optimization Guide, the current version of which is available at http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.dui0555c/DUI0555C_mali_optimization_guide.pdf.
Hope this helps,
Chris
Hi Chris Varnsverry,
I appreciate your reply. I knew the tool streamline, but It is difficult for me to prepare the test environment.
To use this tool, I need to compile an android ROM and then flash it to my phone.
I never compile a ROM. I don't know where to download the source and drivers about my phone.
I don't know which source should I download? the Google one or the CyanogenMod one?
Could you give me some advice? thanks.
To be clear you don't need to download the source for the full rom, you just need to download the Kernel sources for it and build gator against it. There are some guides that go through the process below:
Setting Up Android Mobile Phone to Use ARM Streamline for Profiling
Using DS-5 Streamline with Mali on Google Nexus 10