# About the Nsight Compute category

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/about-the-nsight-compute-category/119>\
**Category:** Nsight Compute\
**Created:** [February 1, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/about-the-nsight-compute-category/119 "2020-02-01T01:38:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/system/32/68080_2.png) [@system](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/about-the-nsight-compute-category/119/1 "2020-02-01T01:38:31Z")

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Nsight Compute is an interactive kernel profiler for CUDA applications. It provides detailed performance metrics and API debugging via a user interface and command line tool.

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**Author:** ![TomNVIDIA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/tomnvidia/32/14181_2.png) [@TomNVIDIA](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/TomNVIDIA)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/about-the-nsight-compute-category/119/2 "2024-10-23T20:29:17Z")

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Unpinned on October 23, 2024, 8:29pm UTC