Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 New Features

NVIDIA? Nsight? Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 is now available with these features and improvements:

Graphics Debugging

Title Support
• This release delivers significantly improved compatibility for large-scale user applications
Frame Debugging UI
• The Description column in the Events List view is now re-sizable
• Significantly improved UI performance for fast scrubbing on the host
• Added the ability to copy the path and open the containing folder for items in the project explorer
• The Acceleration Structure view now responds to event changes to see how the resource changes over time
Shader View Enhancements
• Added support for viewing specialization constants for OpenGL shaders
• Added syntax highlighting for binary asm shaders
New Support for 18 Vulkan Extension
• VK_EXT_astc_decode_mode
• VK_EXT_calibrated_timestamps
• VK_EXT_display_surface_counter
• VK_EXT_filter_cubic
• VK_EXT_fragment_density_map
• VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock
• VK_EXT_headless_surface
• VK_EXT_host_query_reset
• VK_EXT_pipeline_creation_feedback
• VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage
• VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation
• VK_EXT_texel_buffer_alignment
• VK_EXT_validation_features
• VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays
• VK_NV_shader_sm_builtins
• VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout
• VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities
• VK_KHR_get_display_properties2
NOTE:
• Integrated Graphics functionality has been deprecated an will be removed in the next release of Nsight VSE.
• Nsight Graphics supports this functionality and now integrates into Visual Studio with NVIDIA Nsight Integration

Compute Debugging and Analysis

General
• Supports CUDA Toolkit 10.2
Next-Gen Debugger
• Works with the latest Turing Super GPUs
• Improved Core Dump support
• Barrier stepping and end-of-kernel stepping control added
Nsight Compute Profiler
General
• Added section sets to reduce the default overhead and make it easier to configure metric sets for profiling
• Reduced the size of the installation
• Added support for CUDA Graphs Recapture API
• The NvRules API now supports accessing correlation IDs for instanced metrics
• Added breakdown tables for SOL SM and SOL Memory in the Spead of Light section for Volta+ GPUs
NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• Added a snap-select feature to the Source page heatmap to help navigate large files
• Added support for loading remote CUDA-C source files via SSH on demand
• Charts on the Details page provide better help in tool tips when hovering metric names
• Improved the performance of the Source page when scrolling or collapsing
• The charts for Warp States and Compute pipelines are now sorted by value
NVIDIA Nsight Compute Command Line Interface
• Added support for GPU cache control, see --cache-control
• Added support for setting the kernel name base in command line output, see --kernel-base
• Added support for listing the available names for --chips, see --list-chips
• Improved the stability on Windows when using --target-processes all
• Reduced the profiling overhead for small metric sets in applications with many kernels
NOTE:
• Integrated Profiling functionality has been deprecated an will be removed in the next release of Nsight VSE.
• Nsight Compute supports this functionality and now integrates into Visual Studio with NVIDIA Nsight Integration
NOTE:
• Integrated Trace Analysis & Timeline functionality has been deprecated an will be removed in the next release of Nsight VSE.
• Nsight Systems supports this functionality and now integrates into Visual Studio with NVIDIA Nsight Integration

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

NVIDIA? Nsight? Visual Studio Edition 2019.4 is available for download under the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program.

?Download? ?Documentation?