Nsight Graphics Requirements | NVIDIA Developer

Hardware Configurations

Hardware Configuration	Single GPU System	Two systems, each with GPU	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook^[1]
Graphics Frame Debugger Direct3D and OpenGL 4.2 - 4.5^[2], and Vulkan
[1] Ensure the laptop is set up for Microsoft Hybrid mode. [2] Many OpenGL extensions are supported.
Supported GeForce GPUs	GTX 10-series or better, RTX 20-series, RTX 30-series or RTX 40-series	Dell XPS 15 Optimus Equipped Notebook and others	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook
Supported Quadro GPUs	RTX-Series or better	Dell XPS 15 Optimus Equipped Notebook and others	Microsoft Hybrid Equipped Notebook
Display driver	Please use the latest driver for best results. Download the latest drivers here.
See here for a complete list of officially supported hardware

Windows

Operating System Requirements	Windows 10 20H1 20H2 21H1 21H2 Windows 11 21H2 22H1 22H2 64-bit
C++ Capture Build Requirements^[7]	Visual Studio 2019 A C++ Capture may be generated without a compiler, and freely copied across machines, but building within the Nsight? Graphics environment will require a compatible tool to compile the C++ source code.

Operating System Requirements

Windows 10
- 20H1
- 20H2
- 21H1
- 21H2
Windows 11
- 21H2
- 22H1
- 22H2
64-bit

C++ Capture Build Requirements^[7]

Visual Studio 2019

A C++ Capture may be generated without a compiler, and freely copied across machines, but building within the Nsight? Graphics environment will require a compatible tool to compile the C++ source code.

Linux

Operating System Requirements	Minimum supported distributions: Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 RHEL 7.6 Centos 7.6 Arch Linux 2021.05.01
C++ Capture Build Requirements	GCC 5.0 or later GNU Make

Operating System Requirements

Minimum supported distributions:

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04
RHEL 7.6
Centos 7.6
Arch Linux 2021.05.01

C++ Capture Build Requirements

GCC 5.0 or later
GNU Make