Release Notes#
See the latest features and updates for this version of NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition.
NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.5.0 with Early Access Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2026#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 13.1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 591.39 or newer
Enables experimental, early access support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2026.
See the Using Visual Studio 2026 section under the Installation and Setup page of this documentation for more information about how to use NVIDIA Nsight™ VSE with Microsoft Visual Studio 2026.
Note
This is an early access feature and may not be fully stable. Users are encouraged to provide feedback to help improve this feature in future releases. Refer to the Known Issues page for a list of known issues.
Drops support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.4.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 13.1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 591.39 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.3.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 13.0 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 581.15 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.3.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 13.0.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 580.88 or newer
CUDA Debugger
The legacy debugger as well as support for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures, deprecated as of version 2025.1, has been dropped.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Known issues in CUDA debugging on Blackwell GPUs. See items 2 and 3 under Known Issues for more details.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.2.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.9 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 576.02 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.2.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.9.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 576.02 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Support for Visual Studio 2019 has been deprecated as of version 2025.1, and will be dropped in a future release.
The legacy debugger as well as support for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures has been deprecated as of version 2025.1 and will be dropped in a future release.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2025.1.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.8.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 571.96 or newer
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.
Support for Visual Studio 2019 is deprecated as of this release, and will be dropped in a future release.
The legacy debugger as well as support for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures are being deprecated in this release and will be dropped in a future release.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2024.4.0#
General
Non-public release for ISVs and OEMs only.
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.7.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 565.90 or newer
Adds support for the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, B100
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2024.3.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.6, with recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 560.70 or newer.
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.6 Update 1, with recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 560.94 or newer (There was no Nsight VSE 2024.3.1 release associated with the CTK12.6u1).
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.6 Update 2, with recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 560.94 or newer (There was no Nsight VSE 2024.3.2 release associated with the CTK12.6u2).
Resolved Issues
Fixed issue with MCDM driver mode debugging on Hopper GPU architectures.
r560 WDDM now generates coredumps when CUDA_ENABLE_COREDUMP_ON_EXCEPTION=1, which was an issue with the r555 driver.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2024.2.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.5 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 555.85 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2024.2.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.5.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 555.85 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Microsoft Compute Driver Model (MCDM) is supported as of version 2024.2.0.
Support for Visual Studio 2017 has been deprecated as of version 2024.2.0 and will be dropped in a future release. Visual Studio versions 2019 and 2022 will continued to be supported.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2024.1.1#
General
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 551.82 or newer.
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.4 Update 1.
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2024.1.0#
General
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 551.61 or newer.
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.4.
Support for Windows Server 2019, deprecated since Nsight VSE 2023.3.0 and CTK 12.3.0, has been dropped as of 2024.1.0 and 12.4.0
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2023.3.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.3 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 545.12 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2023.3.0#
General
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 545.84 or newer
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.3. - Supports new Extended Split Compilation NVCC compiler option, as an NVCC preview feature. - Support for Windows Server 2019 is deprecated as of CTK 12.3.0 and Nsight VSE 2023.3.0, and will be dropped in a future release.
CUDA Debugger
Added support for debugging CUDA CMake Projects with Next-gen and Legacy Debuggers.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2023.2.2#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.2 Update 2.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 537.13 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2023.2.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.2 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 536.67 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2023.2.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.2.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 36.23 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2023.1.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.1 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 531.14 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2023.1.0#
General
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 531.14 or newer
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.1.
Supports new Split Compilation NVCC compiler option, as an NVCC preview feature.
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2022.4.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.0 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 528.33 or newer
Adds support for the latest NVIDIA GPUs, including AD104, AD106, and AD107.
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Important Fixes
Fixed user induced coredump issue on A100 and H100 GPUs.
Fixed issue where Registers View may show error messages for PTX registers.
Fixed issue where projects failed to build with the CUDA build customization in recent updates of Visual Studio 2022 if the project path contains a space.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2022.4.0#
General
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 527.27 or newer
Supports CUDA Toolkit 12.0.
While WSL2 is supported by the CUDA Toolkit 12.0, Nsight Visual Studio Edition doesn’t support debugging in the Linux subsystem.
Supports CNPv2.
Resource View now shows CUDA Stream Priority Attribute.
Adds support for the latest NVIDIA GPUs, including AD104.
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2022.3.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.8.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 521.98 or newer
Adds support for the latest NVIDIA GPUs, including AD102, AD103, and GH100.
NVIDIA Tools Extension (NVTX) will not be installed by the Nsight Visual Studio installer starting with the next release. Please refer to https://docs.nvidia.com/nvtx and NVIDIA/NVTX for set up instructions.
CUDA Debugger
Supports lazy function loading, which shortens time to first breakpoint. Resource view indicates if each function has been loaded.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2022.2.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.7 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 516.31 or newer
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2022.2.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.7.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 516.01 or newer
Adds support for the latest NVIDIA Ampere GPUs, including GA103.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2022.1.1#
General
New support for Visual Studio 2022, in addition to previous support for VS2017 and VS2019.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 511.23 or newer
CUDA Debugger
System Info window is not available when using Visual Studio 2022.
Core dump files (.nvcudmp) are not recognized when using Visual Studio 2022.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2022.1.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.6.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 511.23 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Improved coredump and exception handling.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2021.3.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.5 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 495.01 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Next-Gen Debugger supports the latest compiler enhancements in CUDA Toolkit 11.5 Update 1, improving optimized code debugging.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2021.3.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.5.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 495.00 or newer
Supports Microsoft Windows 11.
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2021.2.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.4 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 471.41 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2021.2.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.4.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 471.11 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Next-Gen Debugger supports the latest compiler enhancements in CUDA Toolkit 11.4, improving optimized code debugging.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2021.1.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.3 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 465.01 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2021.1.0#
General
Supports the latest NVIDIA Ampere GPUs, including GA106.
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.3.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 465.00 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Allow viewing of SASS Indexed Constants.
Added Memory Allocations to the Resources view.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2020.3.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.2 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 460.79 or newer
CUDA Debugger
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2020.3.0#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.2.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 460.78 or newer
Support for Visual Studio 2015, which has been deprecated since 2020.2.0, has been removed. Current Visual Studio support still includes versions 2017 and 2019.
CUDA Debugger
Supports CUDA Parallel Launch.
Supports Visual Studio breakpoint hit count.
New Memory Allocations view, providing information on CUDA global memory allocations.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2020.2.1#
General
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.1 Update 1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 457.09 or newer
Important Fixes
Some builds of Visual Studio 2019 had performance impacts when Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2020.2.0 was installed (possibly from CUDA Toolkit 11.1).
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio 2020.2.0#
General
Support for GA102 and GA104.
Support CUDA Toolkit 11.1.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 456.33 or newer
Support for Microsoft Windows 10 Hardware Scheduling.
Support for Visual Studio 2015 is being deprecated and will be dropped in an upcoming release. Current Visual Studio support still includes versions 2015, 2017, and 2019.
CUDA Debugger
Debugger Performance improvements, especially when loading modules.
New debugger option to ‘Break on API Errors’.
New debugger option to ‘Break on Launch’.
Analysis
Integrated Analysis Trace, deprecated since NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.2, has been removed. The replacement, stand-alone Nsight Systems tool is currently available and works with NVIDIA Nsight Integration for Visual Studio.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio 2020.1.2#
This was a bug fix release, primarily for fixing Debugger core dump issues.
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 451.82 or newer.
New in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio 2020.1.1#
General
Support for GA100.
Supports CUDA Toolkit 11.0
Recommended NVIDIA Display Driver: 451.48 or newer
Support for Microsoft Windows 10 Hardware Scheduling.
Windows 7 (and WinServer through 2012R2) support, deprecated since 2019.4 release, has been removed.
Support for sm_30 and sm_32 architectures have been dropped and sm_35, sm_37, sm_50 support has been deprecated as of the 2020.1 release. The default compilation target is now sm_52 in NVIDIA Nsight™ VSE build customizations. (CTK-865)
Support for Visual Studio 2013 has been dropped. NVIDIA Nsight™ VSE 2020.1.1 Visual Studio support includes versions 2015, 2017, and 2019.
NVIDIA Nsight Integration, a Visual Studio extension, has been introduced to allow next generation, standalone, Nsight tool integration into Visual Studio. In particular:
Integrated Graphics Debugging, deprecated since NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.2, has been removed and replaced by Nsight Graphics.
Integrated CUDA profiling, deprecated since NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.2, has been removed from the Performance Analysis tools and replaced by:
Nsight Compute for Volta and later family GPUs
nvprof and Visual Profiler for Pascal and early family GPUs (not participating tools for NVIDIA Nsight Integration)
Integrated Analysis Trace, deprecated since NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.2, has not been removed, but will be in an upcoming release of NVIDIA Nsight™ VSE. The replacement, stand-alone Nsight Systems tool is currently available and works with NVIDIA Nsight Integration for Visual Studio.
CUDA Debugger
Added support for the NVIDIA GA100 GPU.
Supports for the CUDA 11.0 Toolkit.
Added ability to control breaking on and reporting CUDA API errors.
The Warp Watch view is now available in the Next-Gen Nsight Debugger.
The Resources view is now available in the Next-Gen Nsight Debugger.
CUDA Task Graph support has been added to the Next-Gen Nsight Debugger.
Support for Pascal has been dropped from the Legacy Nsight Debugger, but is fully supported by the Next-Gen Nsight Debugger.
Graphics
Integrated Graphics Debugging, deprecated since NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.2, has been removed and replaced by Nsight Graphics.
Note that NVIDIA Nsight Integration, a Visual Studio extension, has been introduced to allow Nsight Graphics integration into Visual Studio under the Nsight menu.
Analysis
Integrated CUDA profiling, deprecated since NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.2, has been removed from the Performance Analysis tools and replaced by:
Nsight Compute for Volta and later family GPUs.
Note that NVIDIA Nsight Integration , a Visual Studio extension, has been introduced to allow Nsight Compute integration into Visual Studio under the Nsight menu.
nvprof and Visual Profiler for Pascal and earlier family GPUs (not participating tools for NVIDIA Nsight Integration).
Integrated Analysis Trace, which has been deprecated since NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 2019.2, has not been removed, but will be in an upcoming release of NVIDIA Nsight™ VSE. However, the replacement, stand-alone Nsight Systems tool is currently available and works with NVIDIA Nsight Integration for Visual Studio integration.
OpenCL profiling support in NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition, deprecated as of NVIDIA Nsight™ VSE 2019.3, has been removed.