NEW, AMD uProf 5.1 is now available (Jun 09, 2025)
AMD uProf (“MICRO-prof”) is a performance analysis tool-suite for x86 based applications running on Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. It provides performance metrics for AMD “Zen”-based processors and AMD Instinct™ MI Series accelerators. AMD uProf enables developers better understand performance bottlenecks, optimization scope, and evaluate improvements.
AMD uProf Offers:
- Performance Analysis – to identify runtime performance bottlenecks of the application.
- System Analysis – to monitor system performance metrics.
- Power Profiling – to monitor thermal and power characteristics of the system.
- Remote Profiling – to connect to remote Linux systems (from a Windows host system), trigger collection/translation of data on the remote system and report it in local GUI.
AMD uProf can effectively be used to:
- Characterize workload performance to understand memory/compute boundedness and pipeline utilization.
- Analyze the performance of one or more processes or the entire system.
- Characterize performance bottlenecks (hotspots & micro-architecture) in the source code.
- Identify ways to optimize source code for better performance and power efficiency.
- Examine behavior of kernel, drivers, and system modules.
- Analyze thread concurrency.
- Analyze load and compute imbalance issues in HPC workloads using OpenMP and MPI tracing.
- Observe frequency, thermal and power characteristics (Power profiling).
- Observe system metrics, such as Instructions Per Clock (IPC), core effective frequency, and memory bandwidth.
- Visualize heterogenous application (running on MI systems) runtime behavior.
- Monitor GPU hardware components, kernels, dispatch information performance metrics of the kernels running on MI systems.
What’s New in AMD uProf 5.1
- Support for new processors—GraniteRidge X3D, Rapheal X3D, Ryzen Epyc 4004, Ryzen EPYC X3D 4004, and Ryzen Epyc 4005.
- Bug fixes
AMDuProfPcm
- “profile” command to generate timeseries, cumulative and roofline CSV and HTML reports from single run
- New CLI options “--collect-host” and “--collect-guest” for monitoring host and guest metrics from the host system
- The 'hreport' option has been introduced to generate an HTML file from an already collected time series report
- New Python script has been implemented to divide metrics in csv file based on IP or aggregation type
- Support for comparing roofline sessions has been added
AMDuProfSys
- “—wait-for-signal” for start/stop control using SWIFT signal
- By default, Summary report is enabled for all Timeseries reports
AMDuProfCLI & AMDuProf GUI
CPU Profiling:
- Support for new OS - Windows Server 2025, Windows 11-24H2
- Faster sample data processing and report generation
User mode Sampling and Tracing:
- TOTAL_CPU_TIME of functions if callstack is enabled
HPC - OpenMP and MPI Tracing:
- MPI Fortran-2008 support for MPICH implementation
- Support for additional Open MPI APIs in Fortran-90 and Fortran-2008
- Display of OpenMP parallel region instance execution count
GPU Profiling and Tracing:
- Latest ROCm version support (until ROCm 6.3.3)
GUI
- GUI shows profiling overhead for selected profile type
- Added option in GUI to re-direct application stdout/stderr output to a file
- Numerous Timeline Improvements in GUI
- Specify MPI processes by rank, and OpenMP threads by OpenMP thread number in GUI
- Hotspots config support is enabled on Windows
For a complete list of features added in this release, refer to the release notes.
Operating Systems
- AMD uProf supports the 64-bit version of the following operating systems:
- Microsoft®
- Windows® 10 (up to 22H2)
- Windows® 11 (up to 24H2)
- Windows Server® 2019, Windows Server® 2022 and Windows Server® 2025
- Linux
- Ubuntu® 22.04 and later
- RHEL® 8.6 and later
- SLES & openSUSE® Leap 15.5*, Debian 12
- RHEL based distros - Rocky Linux 9.3*, Alma Linux 9.4
- FreeBSD® 13, FreeBSD® 14
Virtualization
- Linux KVM
- Windows Hyper-V
- VMware ESXi
- Citrix Xen
Cloud Environments
- AWS
- Azure
Containers
- Docker (on Linux)
For OS support on AMD EPYC™ processors, visit the AMD webpage https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/minimum-operating-system.html.
*- Sanity tested. Support subject to commitment to compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Compilers and Application Environment
AMD uProf supports following application environments:
- Languages – C, C++, Fortran, Assembly, Java, Python and .NET
- Programs compiled with standard x86-64 compilers
- AMD AOCC
- Microsoft and Intel compilers
- GNU and LLVM compilers
- Parallelism – OpenMP and MPI
- Applications compiled with and without optimization and/or debug information
Features by OS
Feature | Linux | Windows | FreeBSD |
System Analysis | |||
AMDuProfPCM*# | Yes | Yes | Yes |
AMDuProfSys*# | Yes | Yes | No |
CPU Profiling | |||
Overview Analysis | Yes | No | No |
Hotspots Analysis | Yes | Yes | No |
Threading Analysis | Yes | No | No |
Micro-architecture Analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Instruction Based Sampling (IBS) | Yes | Yes | No |
Timer Based Profiling (TBP) | Yes | Yes | No |
Cache Analysis | Yes | Yes | No |
Java App Profiling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Python Profiling | Yes | No | No |
Call Stack Sampling – Native (C, C++, and FORTRAN) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Call Stack Sampling – Java | Yes | No | No |
MPI Code Profiling | Yes | No | No |
OpenMP Tracing | Yes | No | No |
MPI API Tracing | Yes | No | No |
OS Tracing | Yes | No | No |
GPU Analysis | |||
GPU Profiling# | Yes | No | No |
GPU Tracing | Yes | No | No |
Power Profiling | |||
Live Power Profile | Yes | Yes | No |
User Interface | |||
Graphical Interface | Yes | Yes | No |
Command Line | Yes | Yes | Yes |
API | |||
Profile Control API | Yes | Yes | No |
Power Profiler API | Yes | Yes | No |
Instrument API | Yes | No | No |
- * Feature available only on AMD EPYC™ processors
- # Command line interface only
Resources and Technical Support
Documentation
- AMD uProf User Guide
- AMD uProf Release Notes
- Prior versions: AMD uProf Archive
Support
For support options, refer to Technical Support.
AMD Community
For moderated forums, refer to the AMD Community.
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File Name |
Version |
Size |
Launch Date |
OS |
Bitness |
Description |
5.1 |
117.51 MiB |
06/09/2025 |
Windows |
64-bit |
MD5: e5e8cbe27f0b1720c58da17b0bccd8f1 |
|
5.1 |
312.20 MB |
06/09/2025 |
Linux |
64-bit |
MD5: a297f370e633505e4c432da4f94c680a |
|
5.1 |
316.39 MB |
06/09/2025 |
Linux |
64-bit |
MD5: 40436fe742f42ef075a4808e4d02218e |
|
5.1 |
316.13 MB |
06/09/2025 |
Linux |
64-bit |
MD5: dc5b45b742f0a713b9ad35f0d9b7eef3 |
|
5.1 |
121.03 MB |
06/09/2025 |
FreeBSD |
64-bit |
MD5: 14e14bb1c0d8bbd219a10fcdbb027c5a |