Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.1 - New Features

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

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2025.1 is available for download under the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program.

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Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition Overview

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 2025.1 is freely offered through the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program and as part of the CUDA Toolkit

Resolved Issues

Nsight VSE hangs with VS2022 17.13 preview

Updates in 2025.1.0

General

Supports CUDA Toolkit CUDA Toolkit 12.8
Adds support for the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, including B100, B200, GB202, and GB203

CUDA Debugger

Support for Visual Studio 2017 which has been deprecated since 2024.2.0, has been removed in version 2025.1.0. Current Visual Studio support still includes versions 2019 and 2022.
Support for Visual Studio 2019 is deprecated as of version 2025.1.0, and will be dropped in a future release. Visual Studio version 2022 will continue to be supported in future releases.
The Legacy Debugger as well as support for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures are being deprecated in this release and will be dropped a future release.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Nsight Stand Alone Tools can now be integrated into Visual Studio

NVIDIA Nsight Integration (highlighted) under the Nsight menu

NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools Integration for Visual Studio

The integrated Graphics Frame Debuggers, Profilers, and Analysis Trace Timeline features have been removed, but don't worry, you haven't lost this functionality.
NVIDIA Nsight Integration is a Visual Studio extension that allows you to access the power of the following NVIDIA Nsight standalone tools from within Visual Studio.

Nsight Compute : CUDA application interactive kernel profiler
Nsight Graphics : Graphics application frame debugger and profiler
Nsight Systems : System-wide performance analysis timeline tool

When any of these tools are installed along with NVIDIA Nsight Integration, these tools will appear under the NVIDIA 'Nsight' menu in the Visual Studio menu bar.