1548656 - GPU landscape on Fennec / Android

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Data Science :: Investigation, task, P2)

Description

[Andreas Bovens [:abovens]]

Brief Description of the request

We'd like to get an idea of the GPU landscape on Android (Fennec users), similar to what is shown on https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware in the "GPU Models" section. A one off analysis is fine.

Business purpose for this request

This will be used as input for the release criteria of WebRender on Android. We want to make sure we target (and test) the right types of GPUs.

Requested timelines for the request or how this fits into roadmaps or critical decisions

Ideally, we'd have this by June 2019, as it will inform the Q3 OKR planning.

Comment 1

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

I took a quick look at the mobile-metrics and core pings and I don't think GPU model is something that we explicitly collect on Android. Maybe we can produce this by cross-referencing the device manufacturer and model information we do collect against some other data source, but I'm not sure that will allow a confident assignment to GPU SKUs. You may want to add new telemetry.

Comment 2

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

kbrosnan reminds me that I've forgotten about saved-session pings, which do in fact contain this! Sorry for the misinformation.

Comment 3

[Andreas Bovens [:abovens]]

I believe Google Play Console also has GPU info. This might be of help. Emily, how shall we proceed here?

Comment 4

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

I caught up with Andreas and Emily but to put a record in the bug, saved-session pings aren't available on release, so we don't have this data directly in telemetry.

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

We'll need to reconvene on this. Adding to the backlog. Will follow up with Emily once she's back from onboarding.

Comment 6

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

It looks like Google maintains a mapping of devices to GPUs, in the form of the device catalog available from the Google Play Console, described at https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6154891?hl=en.

Julien, Sylvestre says that you and Ritu maintain Google Play Console access. Would you mind either downloading that file for Fennec and shooting me a copy, or giving me "view app information" permission for Fennec?

Comment 7

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

I emailed you the list.

Comment 8

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

Thanks, Julien!

Annoyingly, while the docs at https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7353455?hl=en suggest that the device catalog includes GPU information, that isn't described as a column in the article at https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6154891?hl=en, and indeed it does not appear in the downloaded CSV. So we may be back to square one here.

Comment 9

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

I'm not currently working on this and I don't have a way to provide it, so I'll close this out.