Nvidia presents Frameview - tool for measuring frame rate in games

Anyone who wants to measure how fast the computer system can render a game or other graphical application has a few major tools to choose from. A classic alternative is the recording tool FRAPS, which can also act as a performance meter, but a more versatile alternative has in recent years become the OCAT tool.

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OCAT stands for Open Capture and Analytics Tool and was originally based on Intel’s software library Presentmon. Unlike FRAPS, OCAT can read image updates via a number of graphics interfaces, including the low-level DirectX 12 and Vulcan interfaces. Now the tool gets an alternative as Nvidia presents its own measurement tool Frameview which is based on OCAT.

With Frameview, Nvidia broadens the capacity of OCAT with the ability to measure energy consumption and performance per watt. These measurements should present information on energy consumption for both the graphics circuit and the entire graphics card. The information from the measurements is presented in a presentation layer (eng. Overlay) that can be configured according to the user’s wishes.

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The information is also stored in logs for further analysis afterwards. The application only supports Windows 10 but supports image synchronization with both Nvidia’s own technology G-Sync as well as AMD Freesync. Frameview also supports “a variety of graphics cards”, which also includes competing products from AMD and Intel.

Frameview will be available for download from July 9, when the Geforce RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super become commercially available.