Nsight Systems 2026.5.1 Desktop-Server (x86-64 | Arm SBSA | Arm64 native and x64 emulation) 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 2026.5.1 introduces several improvements aimed to enhance the profiling experience.

2026.5.1 Highlights

  • NVIDIA Rubin GPU architecture support

    • Performance metrics support for GR100: General Metrics and Compute Triage

  • NVIDIA RTX Spark Support

    • Trace arm64 native and x64 emulated Windows applications

    • CPU core PMU metrics sampling

    • GPU power and temperature metrics

    • NVIDIA Video Codec SDK tracing

  • Compute

    • CUDA 13.4 support
    • CUDA work queue information - Added channel count and channel ID details
    • Multi-process capture ranges - Improved CUPTI buffer flushing when profiling ends through cudaProfilerStop()
    • CUDA kernel details now show if execution model was Tile IR or SIMT

  • Nsight Systems Plugins

    • DCGM - Added “–power-profile” to see if: supported, requested, or enforced

  • Network profiling improvements

    • Nsight Systems can now collect Spectrum-X high frequency performance counters. Counters are read via DTS (DOCA Telemetry Service) and the switch Cumulus OS

  • NVIDIA Nsight Cloud

    • Nsight Streamer updates

    • Nsight Operator updates

      • Improvements for analysis, OpenTelemetry, Dynamo

      • Learn more via new Docs site

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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