Nsight Systems 2025.5.1 Desktop-Server (x86-64|Arm SBSA) Release Announcement

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The latest update to NVIDIA Nsight Systems - a triage and performance analysis tool designed to track GPU workloads to their CPU origins within a system-wide view. These features help you analyze your applications’ GPU utilization, graphic and compute API activity, and OS runtime operations. This helps optimize your application to perform and scale efficiently across any quantity or size of CPUs and GPUs—from workstations to supercomputers.—is now available for download. Nsight Systems 2025.5.1 introduces several improvements aimed to enhance the profiling experience.

2025.5.1 Highlights

  • CUDA improvements

    • CUDA 13.0 support

    • New --cuda-trace-all-apis CLI switch allows tracing all CUDA APIS, including those skipped by default

    • NVTX projection support for cudaGraphExec*NodeSetParams() API

    • CUDA Event meta info will be provided in SQLITE’s CUPTI_ACTIVITY_KIND_CUDA_EVENT table even when device-side timestamp trace is disabled (–cuda-event-trace=false)

  • NVTX 3.3 support

  • Vulkan GPU Workload trace on GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs

  • Vulkan1.4 trace

    • Nsight Systems’ Vulkan API trace has been extended to include significant additional functions from the Vulkan 1.4 standard and extensions set

  • Graphics 2D Frame Duration charts

    • The Frame Duration charts (CPU frames and GPU frames) now use two-dimensional visualization, expressing frame duration on the timeline by the horizontal length of the frame range as well as the frame rectangle’s vertical height

    • This chart design makes stutter frames “pop” above the surrounding frame duration ranges

  • Linux File Access Statistics Recipe

    • A comprehensive analysis of file access patterns and I/O performance statistics from Nsight Systems reports, supporting single or multiple profiled processes across different machines

  • NVIDIA Nsight Streamer improvements now available on NGC for viewing reports on remote headless servers

  • NVIDIA Nsight Operator improvements releasing soon on NGC for Kubernetes

    • Learn more here and apply for early access features

Nsight Systems is part of the powerful debugging and profiling NVIDIA Nsight Tools Suite. A developer can start with Nsight Systems for an overall system view and avoid picking less efficient optimizations based on assumptions and false-positive indicators.

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