Nsight Visual Studio Edition Requirements

Hardware Configuration	Single GPU System	Optimus Equipped Notebook	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook^[1]
CUDA Debugger
CUDA Dynamic Parallelism Debugger
[1] Ensure the laptop is set up for Microsoft Hybrid mode.
Supported GeForce GPUs^[2]	GTX 20-series, 30-series, 40-series, and 50-series	Dell XPS 15 Optimus Equipped Notebook and others	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook
See here for a complete list of officially supported hardware *Note: Fermi family GPUs, and older families, are no longer supported with Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.2 or better*. [3] NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition CUDA debugger supports TCC, WDDM, and MCDM mode debugging. Please see the CUDA Debugger compatibility chart on the Supported GPUs page.

Operating System Requirements	Minimum Requirements: Windows HPC Server 2019 (64-bit) or Windows 10 RS4 (build 1803) 64-bit Note: 32-bit operating systems are no longer supported with Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.0 or later. Note: windows 7 systems are no longer supported with Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2020.1 or later.
Framework/SDK Requirements	.NET framework 4.0
Visual Studio Requirements^[4][5][6]	One or more of Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition^[7] Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition^[8][9] [4] VS2010 is not supported by Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.6 and later. [5] 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. [6] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2020.3, released in December 2020, VS2015 support has been dropped. [7] If multiple instances of VS2022 are installed and Nsight is configured to install on VS2022, Nsight will be registered with all instances of VS2022. [8] If multiple instances of VS2019 are installed and Nsight is configured to install on VS2019, Nsight will be registered with all instances of VS2019. [9] As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2025.1, released in Jan 2025, VS2019 support has been deprecated and will be dropped in a future release.
Display Driver Requirements	Please see the display drivers recommended at the time of each of the Nsight Visual Studio Edition releases in the GameWorks Download Center.
Minimum Hardware Requirements	CPU: Intel® Pentium ® Dual-core CPU or equivalent @ 1.6 GHz minimum Memory: Host machine: 2 GB; Target machine: 2 GB Hard Disk Space: 240 MB for 32-bit machine; and 330 MB for 64-bit machine. For remote debugging: TCP/IP network to connect host machine to target machine
Recommended Hardware Requirements	CPU: Intel® Pentium ® Dual-core CPU or equivalent @ 2.2 GHz or higher Memory: Host machine: 2 GB; Target machine: 4 GB or more Hard Disk Space: 240+ MB for 32-bit machine; and 330+ MB for 64-bit machine. For remote debugging: TCP/IP network to connect host machine to target machine

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition supports 5 flexible hardware configurations:

Single GPU System: For developers working on API level frame debugging_[*], profiling_[*] and GPGPU developer debugging with the Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition CUDA Debugger.
Dual GPU System: The recommended single machine configuration for a GPGPU developer. This configuration supports both the Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition CUDA Debugger and trace timeline analysis_[*].
Two systems, each with one GPU: The recommended configuration for developers who need the additional power when doing both GPGPU and graphics tasks. Supports GPGPU and debugging and trace timeline analysis_[*].
Notebook equipped with NVIDIA Optimus technology: This configuration supports both the Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition CUDA Debugger and trace timeline analysis_[*].
Windows 10 (or later) notebook configured for Microsoft Hybrid mode: This is the recommended single notebook machine configuration for a GPGPU developer. This configuration supports both the Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition CUDA Debugger and trace timeline analysis_[*].

[*] Note that NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition only supports GPGPU debugging.

Graphics Range Profiling and Graphics Frame Debugging can be done with a href="/nsight-graphics">Nsight Graphics using NVIDIA Nsight Integration,

System Trace Analysis should be done with Nsight Systems using NVIDIA Nsight Integration, and

Kernel profiling may be accomplished with Nsight Compute using NVIDIA Nsight Integration.

Drop Notices:

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:

As of Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2025.1, released in Jan 2025, VS2019 support has been deprecated and will be dropped in a future release.

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