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System Requirements for NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

NVIDIA® Nsight Graphics™ supports flexible hardware configurations:

Single GPU System
Dual GPU System:
Notebook equipped with NVIDIA Optimus technology: The recommended single notebook machine configuration for a GPGPU developer. This configuration supports both the NVIDIA Nsight Graphics Debugger and Analyzer using NVIDIA Optimus technology.

Display Driver

You must install the NVIDIA display driver that supports the NVIDIA Nsight Graphics tools. If you have an NVIDIA graphics card installed on your target machine, you likely already have an NVIDIA display driver; however, NVIDIA Nsight Graphics requires a specific version of the driver in order to function properly.

The required driver version can be found in the Release Notes.

Supported Graphics Cards

For the latest updates to the list of supported GPUs, see the full GPU list here.

C++ Capture Requirements

C++ Captures require that the host machine have Visual Studio 2013 or newer installed to compile. For Direct3D applications, this version of Visual Studio must have an SDK version that is compatible with the Direct3D SDK usage of the application being captured.