Included in Arm Mobile Studio

Arm Mobile Studio includes the following tools that each target a different stage in the profiling workflow.

Streamline	Capture a performance profile for deep-dive analysis, using all of the CPU, GPU, and memory system performance data in the system. Identify the critical path hardware units for your application, as well as workload efficiency metrics, allowing you to target optimizations at the areas that matter most.
Performance Advisor	Part of the Streamline tool, Performance Advisor generates an easy-to-read performance report from an annotated Streamline profile. Get actionable advice about how to optimize your application. These reports can be generated manually from a Streamline capture, but they are designed to ease the deployment of automated performance testing workflows.
Frame Advisor	Use Frame Advisor to analyze a problem frame from a mobile application. Capture the API calls and rendering and get comprehensive geometry metrics to discover what might be slowing down your application or overheating the device.
Graphics Analyzer	Investigate the OpenGL ES and Vulkan API calls made by your application, and how the GPU reacted to them, to identify rendering defects and performance inefficiencies. Use diagnostic tooling, such as overdraw and shader usage maps, to explore your frames draw-by-draw and find opportunities for optimization.
Mali Offline Compiler	Compile your shader programs and check how they will perform across on any Mali GPUs. Performance reports give you information on shader register usage and thread occupancy, an estimated cycle cost breakdown for the target GPU, and other stage-specific performance feedback.

Tutorials

Work through the following tutorials to learn how to use Arm Mobile Studio tools:

Training videos

Work through our Mali GPU video training series to learn about the fundamentals of mobile graphics, how GPUs process your content, and how to use Arm Mobile Studio to analyze a game.

Module 1 - Mobile graphics fundamentals	Module 2 - Best practice principles for mobile graphics	Module 3 - Arm Mobile Studio
1.1 Introduction to mobile systems (12 mins)	2.1 The Mali GPU family (11 mins)	3.1 Introducing Arm Mobile Studio (10 mins)
1.2 The rendering pipeline (15 mins)	2.2 Best practice principles for mobile game development (7 mins)	3.2 Performance Advisor (11 mins)
1.3 GPU architecture (8 mins)	2.3 Frame construction (15 mins)	3.3 Streamline (8 mins)
1.4 Hardware shader cores (12 mins)	2.4 Engine and API best practices (7 mins)	3.4 Graphics Analyzer (7 mins)
	2.5 Content best practices (20 mins)	3.5 Mali Offline Compiler (7 mins)
	2.6 Shaders best practices (11 mins)

User guides

Streamline user guide	How to use Streamline to capture and analyze data
Streamline target setup guide for Android	Setup tasks and profiling considerations for Android devices
Performance Advisor user guide	How to use Performance Advisor to generate a report
Frame Advisor user guide	How to use Frame Advisor to capture and analyze data from a problem frame
Graphics Analyzer user guide	How to use Graphics Analyzer to capture and analyze API calls and rendering data
Mali Offline Compiler user guide	How to use Mali Offline Compiler to generate a performance report on a shader program

Documentation

Arm Mobile Studio release note	See what's new in the latest release, get installation instructions and read the support information and known issues.
Game optimization advice	Read our Performance Advisor recommendations about how to avoid common graphics problems that might cause your application to run slowly, or cause the device to overheat.
Mali GPU best practices	Discover our guidelines for how to get the best of out of Mali GPUs when using the OpenGL ES and Vulkan graphics APIs.
Mali GPU performance counters	Use these reference guides to learn about the Mali GPU performance counters that are used in the Streamline profiling template for Mali GPUs. For each counter, learn what it counts and how to change your application to reduce GPU processing cost.
Mali GPU datasheet	Find all of the capabilities and performance statistics for the Mali GPUs in a convenient quick reference format. This is a great resource to use alongside tools such as Streamline and Mali Offline Compiler when optimizing your rendering workloads.
Graphics developer guides	Explore our library of user guides for developing graphically rich applications. These cover everything from artist guidelines for content creation, through to Unity and Unreal engine best practices, and on to targeted topic guides on use cases such as virtual reality and machine learning.
Neon programmers guide	Need to optimize for CPU? Learn how to accelerate data processing with Arm Neon and SVE2 technologies, our SIMD vector processing instruction sets.

Supporting tools

ASTC Encoder	Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) is an advanced lossy texture compression format for the OpenGL ES and Vulkan graphics APIs. The ASTC Encoder (astcenc) compressor is the Arm best-in-class texture compressor for this format, available as an open-source project on GitHub.
HWCPipe	Hardware Counter Pipe (HWCPipe) is a utility library that gives applications the ability to sample Mali GPU performance counters. This allows hardware performance data to be integrated data directly in to an application or custom developer tooling.
libGPUInfo	libGPUInfo is a small utility library that enables applications to query the configuration of the Arm Immortalis or Arm Mali GPU present in the system. This information enables you to adjust application workload complexity to match the performance capability of the current device.
Mobile Studio Integration for Unity	Integrate this package in to your Unity application during development and gain the ability to add more application awareness to Performance Advisor and Streamline profiling reports. This package exports key software counters from the Unity profiler to Streamline, and also exports a C# API to allow developers to export custom annotations and software counters that can be visualized in performance reports.
Unity System Metrics for Mali	Integrate this package in to your Unity application during development and visualize frame-based Arm GPU performance metrics using the Unity profiler. This allows efficient early triage of performance problems in-editor, allowing developers to switching to Streamline only when they need to investigate rendering performance issues in more detail.

Learning Paths