Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 New Features

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 is now available with these features and improvements:

Graphics Debugging

Title Support
• This release delivers significantly improved compatibility for large-scale user applications
Frame Debugging UI
• The Description column in the Events List view is now re-sizable
• Significantly improved UI performance for fast scrubbing on the host
• Added the ability to copy the path and open the containing folder for items in the project explorer
• The Acceleration Structure view now responds to event changes to see how the resource changes over time
Shader View Enhancements
• Added support for viewing specialization constants for OpenGL shaders
• Added syntax highlighting for binary asm shaders
New Support for 18 Vulkan Extension
• VK_EXT_astc_decode_mode
• VK_EXT_calibrated_timestamps
• VK_EXT_display_surface_counter
• VK_EXT_filter_cubic
• VK_EXT_fragment_density_map
• VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock
• VK_EXT_headless_surface
• VK_EXT_host_query_reset
• VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_feedback
• VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage
• VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
• VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment
• VK_EXT_validation_features
• VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays
• VK_NV_shader_sm_builtins
• VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout
• VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities
• VK_KHR_get_display_properties2
NOTE:
• Integrated Graphics functionality has been deprecated an will be removed in the next release of Nsight VSE.
• Nsight Graphics supports this functionality and now integrates into Visual Studio with NVIDIA Nsight Integration

Compute Debugging and Analysis

General
• Supports CUDA Toolkit 10.2
Next-Gen Debugger
• Works with the latest Turing Super GPUs
• Improved Core Dump support
• Barrier stepping and end-of-kernel stepping control added
Nsight Compute Profiler
General
• Added section sets to reduce the default overhead and make it easier to configure metric sets for profiling
• Reduced the size of the installation
• Added support for CUDA Graphs Recapture API
• The NvRules API now supports accessing correlation IDs for instanced metrics
• Added breakdown tables for SOL SM and SOL Memory in the Spead of Light section for Volta+ GPUs
NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• Added a snap-select feature to the Source page heatmap to help navigate large files
• Added support for loading remote CUDA-C source files via SSH on demand
• Charts on the Details page provide better help in tool tips when hovering metric names
• Improved the performance of the Source page when scrolling or collapsing
• The charts for Warp States and Compute pipelines are now sorted by value
NVIDIA Nsight Compute Command Line Interface
• Added support for GPU cache control, see --cache-control
• Added support for setting the kernel name base in command line output, see --kernel-base
• Added support for listing the available names for --chips, see --list-chips
• Improved the stability on Windows when using --target-processes all
• Reduced the profiling overhead for small metric sets in applications with many kernels
NOTE:
• Integrated Profiling functionality has been deprecated an will be removed in the next release of Nsight VSE.
• Nsight Compute supports this functionality and now integrates into Visual Studio with NVIDIA Nsight Integration
NOTE:
• Integrated Trace Analysis & Timeline functionality has been deprecated an will be removed in the next release of Nsight VSE.
• Nsight Systems supports this functionality and now integrates into Visual Studio with NVIDIA Nsight Integration

For a complete overview of all Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition features and access to resources, please visit the main Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition page.

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 is available for download under the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program.

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