Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2024.2 - New Features

Next-Gen CUDA Debugger showing Resources view

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

NVIDIA Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2024.2 is available for download under the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program.

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Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Overview

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2024.2 is freely offered through the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program and as part of the CUDA Toolkit

Updates in 2024.2.1

General

Supports CUDA Toolkit CUDA Toolkit 12.5 Update 1

CUDA Debugger

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

CUDA Debugger

Microsoft Compute Driver Model (MCDM) is supported by the Next-Gen Debugger as of version 2024.2.0, in addition to the previously supported WDDM and TCC driver modes.
Support for Visual Studio 2017 has been deprecated and will be dropped in a future release.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Nsight Stand Alone Tools can now be integrated into Visual Studio

NVIDIA Nsight Integration (highlighted) under the Nsight menu

NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools Integration for Visual Studio

The integrated Graphics Frame Debuggers, Profilers, and Analysis Trace Timeline features have been removed, but don't worry, you haven't lost this functionality.
NVIDIA Nsight Integration is a Visual Studio extension that allows you to access the power of the following NVIDIA Nsight standalone tools from within Visual Studio.

Nsight Compute : CUDA application interactive kernel profiler
Nsight Graphics : Graphics application frame debugger and profiler
Nsight Systems : System-wide performance analysis timeline tool

When any of these tools are installed along with NVIDIA Nsight Integration, these tools will appear under the NVIDIA 'Nsight' menu in the Visual Studio menu bar.