NVIDIA Nsight™ Developer Tools are a powerful set of libraries, SDKs, and developer tools spanning across desktop and mobile targets. These tools enable developers to build, debug, profile, and optimize software that utilizes the latest accelerated computing hardware. Nsight tools provide comprehensive support for CUDA, graphics, OptiX, deep learning, and more, ensuring developers can efficiently scale their applications across CPUs and GPUs.

Features

• Nsight Systems: Provides system-wide visualization of an application's performance to optimize bottlenecks and scale efficiently across CPUs and GPUs.
• Nsight Compute: An interactive kernel profiler for CUDA applications, offering detailed performance metrics and API debugging.
• Nsight Graphics: A standalone application for debugging, profiling, and analyzing graphics applications on Windows and Linux.
• Nsight Visual Studio Edition (VSE): Integrates GPU computing into Microsoft Visual Studio, allowing developers to build and debug integrated GPU kernels and native CPU code.
• Nsight Cloud: Enhances the developer experience in containerized cloud, cluster, data center, and HPC environments.
• Nsight Visual Studio Code Edition (VSCE): Brings CUDA development into Microsoft Visual Studio Code, enabling developers to build and debug GPU kernels and native CPU code.
• Nsight Tools JupyterLab Extension: Allows profiling Python and other supported languages directly in JupyterLab using Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute.
• Nsight Eclipse Edition: A full-featured integrated development environment powered by Eclipse for editing, building, debugging, and profiling CUDA-C applications.
• CUDA-GDB: An extension to GDB for debugging CUDA applications running on actual hardware.
• Compute Sanitizer: A suite for functional correctness checking, including memory access errors and synchronization primitives.
• Nsight Aftermath SDK: Generates GPU "mini-dumps" for DirectX 12 game crash reporting.
• Nsight Perf SDK: A graphics profiling toolbox for DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL.
• CUDA Profiling Tools Interface (CUPTI): Enables the creation of profiling and tracing tools targeting CUDA applications.
• NVIDIA Tools Extension SDK (NVTX): An API for annotating events, code ranges, and resources in applications.
• Nsight Deep Learning Designer: An integrated development environment for designing and developing deep neural networks for in-app inference.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Development Support: Provides a wide range of tools for building, debugging, profiling, and optimizing applications.
• Enhanced Performance: Helps developers identify and optimize performance bottlenecks.
• Flexibility: Supports multiple development environments and platforms, including desktop, mobile, cloud, and HPC.
• Ease of Use: Offers user-friendly interfaces and integration with popular development environments like Visual Studio and Eclipse.
• Advanced Profiling: Enables detailed performance analysis and debugging for CUDA, graphics, and deep learning applications.