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Nsight Graphics 2026.1 Is Available Now

• Windows

• Linux

• DRIVE

• Jetson

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System Requirements

	Windows	Linux
Operating Systems Requirements	Windows 10: 24H2 Windows 11: 23H2, 24H2, 25H2	Ubuntu 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

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Release Notes

2026.1 - 2026/03/11

• Graphics Capture / Graphics Debugger
  • Applications that are being "captured" can now be left open while actively debugging an application. This helps ensure you capture the scene of interest before closing out your application.
  • The Nsight Graphics SDK, released as beta, now allows for programmatic control of Graphics Capture and GPU Trace activities. This C++ library is header-only and straightforward to integrate. There are functions for injection, defining frame boundaries, and triggering captures and traces. An SDK User Guide is available in the documentation.
• GPU Trace
  • [Preview] It's now possible to take a GPU Trace of a Graphics Capture live replay, allowing you to quickly profile your capture. Have a shader that is performing poorly? Edit it in realtime using the shader editor and take a new trace to compare performance. Look for the new button near the toolbar at the top. Please note that while this feature is considered stable, it is in a preview state and likely to change as it nears completion.
  • The Shader Profiler now offers the ability to view layer fusion breakage in order to help you better optimize cooperative vector operations. CoopVec is essential for neural rendering and this feature is an important part of the analysis workflow that will help you make neural workloads performant.
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2025.5 - 2025/12/04

• The Graphics Debugger now includes the Shader Editing feature. Shader Editing allows you to edit a shader in the debugger and see its impact immediately. It allows for rapid iteration, helping you to streamline your development.
• When recording in GPU Trace, all new traces are shown in a dialog window that allows you to rename them, and add user comments, and generally organize your traces as they are being recorded, for example when changing application settings between recordings.
• A long timeout is required for shader debugging, but this can impact the ability to collect GPU crash dumps from Nsight Aftermath. In order to better control this timeout, you will now be notified at login time when key system settings like the TDR timeout are configured for shader debugging. The reminder comes as a dialog at reboot, with the option to automatically restore the settings.
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2025.4 - 2025/08/12

• All activities now support the Slang shading language when using the Vulkan API. Slang is a Khronos initiative to provide a modern, open shading language to the graphics industry.
• Graphics Capture has been promoted out of beta status. This release adds a number core capabilities, listed below, and includes many stability and bug fixes, including improvements in diagnosing and reporting error conditions that prevent successful captures or replays.
• Added support for Hardware Events collection on the Blackwell architecture. When the 'Hardware Event System' option is enabled, a new Compute timeline row will show precise compute ranges, giving you visibility into how your compute workloads overlap on the GPU.
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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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Feature List

View the full Nsight Graphics feature list.

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Archives

Read older version release notes in the Nsight Graphics Revision History.

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Resources

Nsight Graphics Documentation

Release Notes

Release notes and known issues.

Nsight Tools Tutorial Center

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Installation Guide

Guides on how to install NVIDIA Nsight Graphics.

User Guide

The user guide for NVIDIA Nsight Graphics.

Advanced Learning

This section will focus on the primary Nsight Graphics tools key concepts, advanced information and how to's.

Copyright and Licenses

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Documentation

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Video Series

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