Version 2019.4 has arrived. Take a look at what you get with the latest NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 release:
Graphics Debugging
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Title Support
- This release delivers significantly improved compatibility for large-scale user applications
- The Description column in the Events List view is now re-sizable
- Significantly improved UI performance for fast scrubbing on the host
- Added the ability to copy the path and open the containing folder for items in the project explorer
- The Acceleration Structure view now responds to event changes to see how the resource changes over time
- Added support for viewing specialization constants for OpenGL shaders
- Added syntax highlighting for binary asm shaders
Frame Debugging UI
Shader View Enhancements
Nsight Next-Gen Debugger
- Supports CUDA Toolkit 10.2
- Works with the latest Turing Super GPUs
- Improved Core Dump support
- Barrier stepping and end-of-kernel stepping control added
Nsight Compute Profiler
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General
- Supports CUDA Toolkit 10.2
- Works with the latest Turing Super GPUs
- Added section sets to reduce the default overhead and make it easier to configure metric sets for profiling
- Reduced the size of the installation
- Added support for CUDA Graphs Recapture API
- The NvRules API now supports accessing correlation IDs for instanced metrics
- Added breakdown tables for SOL SM and SOL Memory in the Spead of Light section for Volta+ GPUs
- Added a snap-select feature to the Source page heatmap to help navigate large files
- Added support for loading remote CUDA-C source files via SSH on demand
- Charts on the Details page provide better help in tool tips when hovering metric names
- Improved the performance of the Source page when scrolling or collapsing
- The charts for Warp States and Compute pipelines are now sorted by value
- Added support for GPU cache control, see --cache-control
- Added support for setting the kernel name base in command line output, see --kernel-base
- Added support for listing the available names for --chips, see --list-chips
- Improved the stability on Windows when using --target-processes all
- Reduced the profiling overhead for small metric sets in applications with many kernels
NVIDIA Nsight Compute
NVIDIA Nsight Compute Command Line Interface
For a complete overview of all Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition features and access to resources, please visit https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-nsight-visual-studio-edition.
See all the new features of the Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 at https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-visual-studio-edition-2019_4-new-features
To download this version, visit https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-visual-studio-edition-downloads. Note, you must be a member of the NVIDIA Developer Program and signed into your account