Feature support by provider

Discover which Adaptive Performance features you can use on your target platforms.

Adaptive Performance relies on platform-specific providers to gather data. The following tables outline the data each provider supplies to Adaptive Performance and the features each provider supports.

Provider data

This table outlines what device data each provider supplies to Adaptive Performance.

Data	Android provider	Basic provider	Samsung provider (deprecated)	Device Simulator plug-inA set of code created outside of Unity that creates functionality in Unity. There are two kinds of plug-ins you can use in Unity: Managed plug-ins (managed .NET assemblies created with tools like Visual Studio) and Native plug-ins (platform-specific native code libraries). More info See in Glossary
Temperature warning	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Temperature level	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Performance status	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CPU time	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
GPU time	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Game Mode	Yes	No	No	Yes
Game state	Yes	No	No	Yes

Feature support

The following tables demonstrate the features available to each provider. Support for these features directly depends on the underlying data each provider supplies.

Adaptive Performance features offer a scripting API in C# as well as components with controls and settings in the Unity Editor.

Thermal features

Feature	Implementation	Android provider	Basic provider	Samsung Provider (deprecated)	Device Simulator plug-in
Temperature trend	API	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Temperature warning	API	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Temperature level	API	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

Performance features

Feature	Implementation	Android provider	Basic provider	Apple provider	Samsung provider (deprecated)	Device Simulator plug-in
CPU and GPU level Note: Only the deprecated Samsung provider implements the CPU level and GPU level features. These features are available for testing and development with the Device Simulator but won’t work on other providers.	API	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Bottleneck detection	API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Auto Performance Control	API, Component	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Scalers	API, Component	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Variable refresh rate (VRR)	API	No	No	No	Yes	Yes

General and platform features

Feature	Implementation	Android provider	Basic provider	Samsung Provider (deprecated)	Device Simulator plug-in
Game Mode	API	Yes	No	No	Yes
Game state	API, Component	Yes	No	No	Yes
Indexer	API, Component	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Device simulator plug-in	Component	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

Additional resources

Provider lifecycle management

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