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NVIDIA Developer Tools & SDK

NVIDIA empowers developers using the latest GPU technology by providing a suite of award-winning tools for content creation, performance analysis, and general software development. In the list below you will find outstanding tools, plug-ins, utilities, and libraries that help solve the challenges of creating world-class content and developing cutting edge applications.

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Graphics SDK
SDK 10 
SDK 9

Physics SDK
PhysX SDK New!
APEX New!

Cg
Cg Toolkit

NVIDIA Scene Graph
NVSG Homepage

C++ Code
  NVTriStrip Library
  Convolution Filters
  NVMeshMender

Misc
GPU Device IDs


 

 

Tools
PerfKit
  PerfHUD 5.2
  PerfSDK

PerfGraph

ShaderPerf 2 

gDEBugger 

Documentation
Practical Perf. Analysis



 

 

Shader Authoring
FX Composer 2.5 Beta New!
Shader Debugger Beta New!

Content Libraries
NVIDIA Shaders 
Transmogrifying Textures

Maya Tools
Mel Scripts for Cg
Maya Cg Plug-in

3DS Max Tools
.nvb Exporter for 3DS Max
.dds Plug-in3 for 3DS Max

Photoshop Tools
Photoshop .dds Plug-in

Texture Tools
Texture Tools 2
(GPU Accelerated)

Texture Atlas
Texture Viewer
Win-XP .dds Thumbnail Viewer
Melody 

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PerfHUD