Nsight Graphics Requirements

Hardware Configurations

Hardware Configuration	Single GPU System	Two systems, each with GPU	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook^[1]
Graphics Frame Debugger Direct3D and OpenGL 4.2 - 4.5^[2], and Vulkan
[1] Ensure the laptop is set up for Microsoft Hybrid mode. [2] Many OpenGL extensions are supported.
Supported GeForce GPUs	GTX 10-series or better, including TITAN V^[3], RTX 20-series or RTX 30-series^[4]	Dell XPS 15 Optimus Equipped Notebook and others	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook
Supported Quadro GPUs	P-Series, and RTX-Series^[5], or better	Dell XPS 15 Optimus Equipped Notebook and others	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook
Display driver	Please use the latest driver for best results. Download the latest drivers here.
See here for a complete list of officially supported hardware

Windows

Operating System Requirements	Windows 10 64-bit
C++ Capture Build Requirements^[7]	One of Visual Studio 2019 Visual Studio 2017 A C++ Capture may be generated without these tools, and freely copied across machines, but building within the Nsight™ Graphics environment will require a compatible tool to compile the C++ source code.

Operating System Requirements

Windows 10
64-bit

C++ Capture Build Requirements^[7]

One of

Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2017

A C++ Capture may be generated without these tools, and freely copied across machines, but building within the Nsight™ Graphics environment will require a compatible tool to compile the C++ source code.

Linux

Operating System Requirements	Minimum supported distributions: Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 RHEL 7.6 Centos 7.6 Note: GPU Trace only supports Ubuntu 18.04 and no other Linux distributions
C++ Capture Build Requirements	GCC 5.0 or later GNU Make

Operating System Requirements

Minimum supported distributions:

Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
RHEL 7.6
Centos 7.6

Note: GPU Trace only supports Ubuntu 18.04 and no other Linux distributions

C++ Capture Build Requirements

GCC 5.0 or later
GNU Make