NVIDIA Nsight Systems Adds Vulkan Support

Originally published at: NVIDIA Nsight Systems Adds Vulkan Support | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API targeting a wide variety of devices from cloud gaming servers, to PCs and embedded platforms. The Khronos Group manages and defines the Vulkan API. Introduction to NVIDIA Nsight Systems NVIDIA Nsight™Systems provides developers with a unified timeline view which displays how applications use computer resources. This low-overhead performance…

This sounds very interesting! Good job!!

I have one question. Is there any article on how to run vulkan applications on Nvidia Nsight Systems ? Because I have already tried to run some Vulkan compute applications that I have but the nsight systems doesn't even show the command buffer creation. In Diagnosis summary it says "Zero Vulkan events were collected. Does the application use Vulkan?" and I don't really know why...

Thank you!