Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.5 - New Features
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 2025.5 is available for download under the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program.
Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Overview
Updates in 2025.5.0
- Supports CUDA Toolkit CUDA Toolkit 13.1.
- Early Access Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2026.
- See the Using Visual Studio 2026 section under the Installation and Setup page of this documentation for more information about how to use NVIDIA Nsight™ VSE with Microsoft Visual Studio 2026.
- This is an early access feature and may not be fully stable. Users are encouraged to provide feedback to help improve this feature in future releases. Refer to the Known Issues page for a list of known issues.
- Drops support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019.
General
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.