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Nsight Graphics 2025.3.0 Is Available Now
Nsight Graphics is bundled as part of DRIVE OS for development and deployment on DRIVE AGX-based autonomous vehicles.
Nsight Graphics is bundled as part of the Jetson development suite in the JetPack SDK. Use the NVIDIA SDK Manager to deploy the JetPack SDK on Jetson.
System Requirements
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| Operating Systems Requirements | Windows 10: 21H1, 21H2, 22H2 Windows 11: 21H2, 22H1, 22H2 |
Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04
Rocky Linux 9.4 Arch Linux 2021.05.01 |
Hardware Configurations
| Hardware Configuration | Single GPU System | Dual GPU System | Two systems, each with a GPU | Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook |
| Supported GeForce GPUs | RTX 20-series
RTX 30-series RTX 40-series RTX 50-series |
Dell XPS 15 Optimus Equipped Notebook and others |
Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook | |
| Supported Quadro GPUs | RTX-Series or better | |||
| Display driver | Driver 535 and newer improves GPU profiling stability. Please use the latest driver for best results. Download here. | |||
| See here for a complete list of officially supported hardware. | ||||
Supported APIs
- Direct3D 12
- Direct3D 11
- DirectX Raytracing
- Vulkan 1.2
- Vulkan Raytracing
- OpenGL 4.2 - 4.6
- OpenVR
Release Notes
2025.3 - 2025/05/29
- Added new Graphics Capture Debugger Texture Inspector features
- Added a Memory Viewer
- Added partial support for RTX Mega Geometry in Vulkan, via the VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure extension.
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2025.2 - 2025/03/18
- Graphics Capture offers a new set of tools for capturing and debugging D3D12 and Vulkan graphics applications. Capture acquisition is streamlined to capture one or more frames immediately to persistent disk storage, using either Nsight Graphics or the command-line tool ngfx-capture.
- Once a Graphics Capture is taken, it can be opened for Graphics Debugging at any time. The capture file may even be analyzed in an offline mode that allows for analysis without application replay. Use familiar tools to debug API state, view events, objects, resources, raytracing acceleration structures, and images.
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2025.1 - 2025/01/30
- Nsight Graphics now fully supports Blackwell GPUs, delivering complete parity with previous architectures and introducing powerful new features to take your workflows to the next level. This includes support for Capture/Replay, GPU Trace, the Shader Profiler, the Shader Debugger, as well as the Nsight Aftermath dump file viewer.
- In addition to Blackwell architecture support, GPU Trace has been improved.
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2024.3 - 2024/12/03
- An Active Threads Per Warp histogram is now available throughout the Shader Profiler views within GPU Trace.
- In the Shader Pipelines view of GPU Trace, the Average Warp Latency is now shown as a histogram.
- The Shader Profiler now supports source correlation for D3D12 Work Graph shaders.
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2024.2 - 2024/07/30
- We are excited to announce the public beta release of the Shader Debugger for Vulkan!
- A Flame Graph of shader performance is now shown in GPU Trace. Use this to identify the most expensive shaders, functions, and inlined callstacks at a glance.
- A Flame Graph of shader performance is now shown in the Shader Profiler.
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2024.1 - 2024/03/19
- GPU Trace now has an API Event List view, similar to the Frame Debugger. This view provides an API-oriented list of commands that are executed in the frame, ordered by Queues → CommandLists → Perf Markers and Actions
- The Ray Tracing Live State table now supports exporting to CSV. Either use the right-click menu command, or expand the rows of interest and copy-to-clipboard
- Added support for capture, replay, and frame debugging of OpenXR applications
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2023.4 - 2023/11/30
- New Ray Tracing Inspector tool that adds the ability for advanced, visual inspection of ray tracing applications
- D3D12 Work Graphs are now supported
- The Shader Profiler has a new “Instruction Mix” view which reveals statistics about the currently selected code block
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2023.3 - 2023/08/08
- Real-Time Shader Profiler in GPU Trace
- Timings of GPU contexts from the traced process and background processes
- VRAM and system memory usage indicators in GPU Trace
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2023.2 - 2023/05/30
- GPU Trace can now capture applications via user specified criteria, regardless of whether the application has frame boundaries
- The Shader Profiler now has a Bottom-Up Calls table, revealing the most expensive source-level functions in your shaders
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2023.1 - 2023/03/21
- Support for visualizing opacity micromaps in the Acceleration Structure viewer
- Vulkan Ray Tracing shaders now display Instruction Execution stats per source-line
- GPU Trace now has an in-application HUD
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2022.7 - 2022/11/30
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (AD106) support
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (AD107) support
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (AD107) support
- Full support for Vulkan Video Extension Decode
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Feature List
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Archives
Read older version release notes in the Nsight Graphics Revision History.
Resources
Nsight Graphics Documentation
Release notes and known issues.
Access the latest resources to get started with Nsight Graphics.
Guides on how to install NVIDIA Nsight Graphics.
The user guide for NVIDIA Nsight Graphics.
This section will focus on the primary Nsight Graphics tools key concepts, advanced information and how to's.
Information on the NVIDIA Software License Agreement as well as third party software and tools used by Nsight Graphics.
Documentation
Tutorial Sessions
Fundamentals of Ray Tracing Development using NVIDIA Nsight Graphics and NVIDIA Nsight Systems
Learn how to utilize Nsight Graphics and Nsight Systems to profile and optimize 3D Applications that are using Ray Tracing.
Getting Started with Ray Tracing Graphics Tools
We'll go through what tools are available to allow you to debug, profile, and optimize your modern graphics application.
Leveraging NVIDIA Graphics DevTools for High-performance Ray-tracing Applications
Learn how to leverage a professional grade graphics debugger and profiler to integrate new technologies into modern applications.
The Next Level of Optimization Advice with Nsight Graphics: GPU Trace
GPU Trace introduces a new analysis tool that captures some of that knowledge by using powerful heuristics and rules.
NVIDIA Nsight Feature Spotlight: GPU Trace
GPU Trace is a new frame-level profiler for graphics applications within NVIDIA NSight. With GPU Trace on RTX, developers can collect GPU performance data on a single pass.
Video Series
How to Improve Shader Performance by Resolving LDC Divergence
Learn about how latency caused by LDC Divergence can be identified and resolved with help from Nsight Graphics.
Avoiding Stalls and Hitches in DirectX 12
How to identify, fix, and prevent hitches in DirectX 12 by understanding how the “critical path” affects frame time.
Building Acceleration Structures Using Async Compute
Learn what async compute is and what it offers for building ray tracing acceleration structures.
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