# Memory Profiling Part 4. Memory Footprint Case Study

DevFeed: [Memory Profiling Part 4. Memory Footprint Case Study](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/memory-profiling-part-4-memory-footprint-case-study-13639.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://easyperf.net/blog/2024/02/12/Memory-Profiling-Part4>)

Author: Denis Bakhvalov

Published: 2024-02-12T05:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Denis Bakhvalov](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/denis-bakhvalov.md>)

Topics: [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intel.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [Ray Tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ray-tracing.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [book-chapters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/book-chapters.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intel.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance-analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance-analysis.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [ray-tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ray-tracing.md>)

## AI overview

This case study uses Intel SDE to examine the memory footprints of Blender ray tracing, Stockfish, Clang++ compilation, and AI_bench PSPNet segmentation. It compares their behavior over one-billion-instruction intervals and explains how instruction timelines can be approximately converted to seconds using IPC and processor frequency.

## Source excerpt

Subscribe to my newsletter, support me on Patreon or by PayPal donation. In this case study we will use the Intel SDE tool to analyze the memory footprint of four production workloads: Blender ray tracing, Stockfish chess engine, Clang++ compilation, and AI_bench PSPNet segmentation. We hope that this study will give you an intuition of what you could expect to see in real-world applications.