Any plan on extending GPU profiler support?

Hi all,

One frustration working with Unity on macOS + Metal is that we can't profile GPU properly.

While Unity doc has claimed macOS support, I haven't met an Intel GPU which it supports, and Intel GPU is used exclusively on many MacBooks.

I was working on a custom post processing v2 effect and the lack of GPU profiler didn't help:

- I can check OnPreCull() or use BeginSample(), but I assume both only measure CPU work.

- I can measure general framerate, while it works, how much time my post processing effect costs remains a mystery.

My suggestion:

- In short term, what we really want to see is a list of GPU that it does work with, for example, if we want to test on MBP 13'', which use Intel GPUs exclusively, are we out of luck?

- In long term, we want to see some improvement on profiler support. It goes a LONG way in helping Unity developers and players on macOS.

Thx!

 

Answering my own question:

Just get Intel GPA on macOS, it's more precise, has lower overhead, and surprisingly, a better ui.

I feel more much confident using it than using built-in profiler.

So, take the hints from Unity doc, and use the right tool.