PowerVR Insider & SDK

PowerVR Insider SDK v3.1

PowerVR Graphics SDK

The PowerVR Insider SDK is a cross-platform toolkit designed to support all aspects of 3D graphics application development. It specialises in support for devices that contain PowerVR GPUs and enables users to get the most out of the graphics acceleration hardware available to them.

The SDK is completely free and is distributed under a permissive licence so it can easily be integrated into commercial and non-commercial applications. The SDK licence can be found here. To download the SDK, users must have a valid PowerVR Insider account and have agreed to the terms and conditions of use.

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Supported Operating Systems		OpenGL ES 1.x	OpenGL ES 2.0	OpenGL ES 3.0
	iOS 3.0 or newer
	Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and newer (ARM, X86 & MIPS)
	Blackberry Supports Blackberry 10 and Playbook
	Linux (ARMv7 & X86)
	Windows PC emulation XP and newer (X86 & X64)
	OS X PC Emulation 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and newer (X86 & X64)
	Linux PC Emulation (X86 & X64)

Learn more about the supported platforms

PowerVR SDK installer

The installer is a light-weight application that provides an easy to use interface for selecting the utilities and SDK components that you would like to download (including target OSs and graphics APIs). Once a selection is made, the installer will download the required packages to your machine.

Download the installer for your preferred OS below

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Check out what's new in SDK v3.1

Android SDK Manager Integration

The Android PowerVR Insider SDK is available through the Android SDK Manager as an "Eclipse ready" addon. To download the SDK using this method follow the steps listed below:

Open the Android SDK manager
Open "Tools --> Manage Add-on Sites"
Click the "User Defined Sites" tab
Click "New..." and add the following URL:
http://install.powervrinsider.com/androidsdk.xml
The PowerVR SDK is now available under the Packages list

PowerVR Graphics Utilities

The suite of utilities in the SDK is designed to enable rapid graphics application development. It consists of powerful GUI tools, command-line applications that can be scripted to automate complex tasks, and libraries that can be easily integrated into custom tool chains.

Each utility supports Windows, OS X, and Linux.
The minimum requirements for the utilities package are the following:

Windows - XP or newer
OS X - An Intel based machine with 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or newer
Linux - X11

Some utilities have additional requirements, such as minimum version of OpenGL required.
For more information, please refer to the webpage of the utility you are interested in.

Asset Optimization

PVRTexToolTexture Compressor

PVRGeoPODGeometry Exporter

Development

PVRVFramePC Emulation

PVRShamanShader IDE

PVRShaderEditorShader Editor

Performance Analysis

PVRTuneGPU Performance Analyzer

PVRScopePerformance Analysis Library

PVRTraceGraphics API Tracer

GLSL CompilerProfile & Verification Compiler

Download legacy SDK packages here

Network administrators

PowerVR Support

If you have any enquiries or require support on any of our PowerVR graphics SDK:

Online Resources
PowerVR FAQ
PowerVR SDK Docs

E-mail Devtech Support
devtech@imgtec.com