Nsight Visual Studio Edition Features

All the following features are available in the latest version of NVIDIA® Nsight™ Application Development Environment for Heterogeneous Platforms, Visual Studio Edition:

Nsight Visual Studio Edition Overview

Feature Support Visual Studio Integration[1][2][4][5][6] Visual Studio 2022 Visual Studio 2019 Activities[3][7] Build Debug Target Applications[8] Compute APIs & SDKs[3][8] CUDA C/C++ Forum Support [1] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.6, released in April 2018, VS2010 is no longer supported [2] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2019.3, released in August 2019, VS2012 and VS2013 are no longer supported.       These were deprecated in Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 6.0 (released in September 2018) and Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2019.1 (released in February 2019), respectively. [3] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2020.1, released in May 2020, the following support was dropped OpenCL support, which was deprecated since 2019.4 Window 7 support, which was deprecated since 2019.2 [4] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2020.3, released in December 2020, VS2015 support has been dropped. [5] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2024.2, released in May 2024, VS2017 support has been deprecated and will be dropped in a future release. [6] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2025.1, released in January 2025, VS2019 support has been dropped. [7] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2020.2, released in September 2020, integrated Analysis Trace/Timeline support as been removed. Integrated Analysis support (Trace, Timeline, Oculus SDK), was deprecated in 2019.2. For Pascal and later GPUs, recommended support is provided by Nsight Systems and NVIDIA Nsight Integration For older architectures, please see Visual Profiler [8] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2020.1, released in May 2020, the following support was dropped: Integrated Graphics support (Virtual Reality, UWP, .Net, Direct3D, Vulkan, OpenGL), was deprecated in 2019.2. This now supported by Nsight Graphics and NVIDIA Nsight Integration Integrated Profiling support (OpenCL), was deprecated in 2019.2. This now supported by Nsight Compute and NVIDIA Nsight Integration

CUDA

CUDA Debugging Feature CUDA Debugger[9] Native CUDA C/C++ GPU Debugging CPU + CUDA GPU Same-Session Debugging Local single GPU CUDA Debugging Local single GPU CUDA Memory checker Source Correlated Assembly Debugging SASS,PTX,SASS+PTX Debug CUDA kernels without symbolics (SASS/PTX) Data breakpoints for CUDA C/C++ code Expressions in Locals, Watch, Conditionals Full Tesla Compute Cluster (TCC) Support WDDM/WDDM2 Support MCDM Support Core Dump Analysis

Drop Notices:

"Support Removal" notice
• Visual Studio 2015 support has been removed in Nsight VSE 2020.3.
• Visual Studio 2017 support has been removed in Nsight VSE 2025.1.
• Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPU support has been removed in Nsight VSE 2025.3.
• The Legacy Debugger (supporting Maxwell GPUs) has been removed in Nsight VSE 2025.3.

Deprecation Notices:

Future "Support Removal" deprecation notice
• As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2025.1, released in January 2025, VS2019 support has been deprecated and will be dropped in a future release.