Nsight Graphics 2019.4

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Graphics 2019.4 is released with the following changes:

• Feature Enhancement: GPU Trace
• Execute Command List visualization has been added to the actions row
• Resource barriers have been added to the synchronization row and a new overlay to help users correlate resource barriers to work regimes
• Added the ability to zoom to single- and multi-selection with the “Zoom to Selection” button

• Feature Enhancement: Range Profiler
  • OpenGL support has been added for Turing based GPU targets

• Feature Enhancement: Acceleration Structure Viewer
• NVIDIA VKRay acceleration structures can now be viewed when analyzing ray tracing applications on Linux hosts

• New Support: OpenGL 4.6
• OpenGL 4.6 is now supported in Frame Debugging, C++ Capture, and Frame Profiling activities

• New Support: Windows 10 19H1 Update
• Support for applications using Variable Rate Shading APIs – ID3D12GraphicsCommandList5::RSSetShadingRate and ID3D12GraphicsCommandList5::RSSetShadingRateImage

• Feature Enhancement: HUD
• Incompatible Capture UX – added the ability to accept a notification and proceed at the user’s own risk from the HUD when an incompatible capture is detected

• Feature Enhancement: API Inspector
• Meshlet pipeline stages have been added to the D3D12 API Inspector 

• New Support: Multi-View Rendering
• Multi-View Rendering support has been added

• New Support: OpenGL Extensions
• GL_OVR_multiview and GL_OVR_multiview_multisampled_render_to_texture

• New Support: Vulkan Extensions
• Ycbcr format Extensions – VkSamplerYcbcrConversion 

• New Support: OpenGL Immediate Mode
• Basic support for immediate mode has been added for the most common use cases

• Improved:
• Improved Frame Debugger capture and interception performance

• Removed:
• Removed real-time performance graphs on the HUD in favor of the more detailed, persistent graphs provided by the GPU Trace activity.
• Removed shader performance statistics. The statistics were not supported for modern architectures. We will support a more robust means of getting this information in a future release.

For more details and known issues, please see the full release notes!

For an overview of Nsight™ Graphics and access to resources, please visit the main Nsight™ Graphics page.

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Graphics 2019.4 is available for download under the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program.

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