Updates in 2020.1.1

General

  • Added support for the NVIDIA GA100/SM 8.x GPU architecture

  • Metrics passed to --metrics on the NVIDIA Nsight Compute CLI or in the respective Profile activity option are automatically expanded to all first-level sub-metrics if required. See the documentation on --metrics for more details.

  • Added new rules for detecting inefficiencies of using the sparse data compression on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture.

  • The version of the NVIDIA Nsight Compute target collecting the results is shown in the Session page.

  • Added new launch__grid_dim_[x,y,z] and launch__block_dim_[x,y,z] metrics.

NVIDIA Nsight Compute

  • The Break on API Error functionality has been improved when auto profiling.

NVIDIA Nsight Compute CLI

  • The full path to the report output file is printed after profiling.

  • Added and corrected metrics in the nvprof Metric Comparison table.

Resolved Issues

  • Documented the breakdown: metrics prefix.

  • Fixed handling of escaped domain delimiters in NVTX filter expressions.

  • Fixed issues with the occupancy charts for small block sizes.

  • Fixed an issue when choosing a default report page in the options dialog.

  • Fixed that the scroll bar could overlap the content when exporting the report page as an image.