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title: "Snapdragon Profiler"
url: "https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/software/snapdragon-profiler"
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# Snapdragon Profiler

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Snapdragon® Profiler is profiling software provided by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. for developers to analyze, optimize, and debug performance for applications, games, and other experiences on devices powered by Snapdragon processors.

Through Snapdragon Profiler capture modes, developers gain insight into CPU, GPU, and DSP* activity to identify bottlenecks and take actionable steps to improve their applications and games. It is available for developers using Windows, Linux, and MacOS, and is designed to connect with all operating systems running on a Snapdragon processor.

Download Snapdragon Profiler today to start analyzing, optimizing, and debugging your software performance.

## Features and Benefits

- Identify potential problem areas with Realtime metrics, selecting from over 150 hardware performance counters
- Analyze low-level system, graphics, and ML workloads across the CPU, GPU, and DSP*
- Capture and debug graphics workloads with Snapshot captures, allowing deeper frame and shader analysis
- Detailed analysis of any DirectX, Vulkan, OpenCL, and OpenGL ES workloads

* DSP is not available on all platforms

Download Snapdragon Profiler today to start analyzing, optimizing, and debugging your software performance.

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## Additional Resources

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## Tutorial Videos

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### Getting Started with Snapdragon Profiler on Mac and Linux

This tutorial shows you how to prepare your Mac or Linux machine to use Snapdragon Profiler.

[![](https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/images/company/news-media/media-center/press-kits/youtube-ctas/thumb89-BuildingonWindowsonSnapdragon-IntroductiontoSnapdragonProfiler.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um4wlFOFhWk)

### Building on Windows on Snapdragon: Introduction to Snapdragon Profiler

This tutorial introduces Snapdragon Profiler—a profiling tool that allows developers to analyze the performance of applications running on devices powered by Snapdragon technology. It covers installation, device connection, and basic real-time and trace functionality in Snapdragon Profiler.

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