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System Requirements for NVIDIA Nsight Software

NVIDIA® Nsight™ Development Platform, Visual Studio Edition 3.2 User Guide
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	Minimum	Recommended
Operating System	Windows® 7 (32 or 64-bit), or Windows® 8 (32 or 64-bit), or Windows HPC Server 2008 (32 or 64-bit)	same as minimum
CPU	Intel(R) Pentium (R) Dual-core CPU or equivalent @ 1.6 GHz minimum	Intel(R) Pentium (R) Dual-core CPU or equivalent @ 2.2 GHz or higher
Memory	Host machine (with Visual Studio): 2 GB minimum Target machine: 2 GB minimum *	Host machine (with Visual Studio): 2 GB or more Target machine: 4 GB or more
Hard Disk Space	32-bit machine: 240 MB for NVIDIA Nsight software 64-bit machine: 330 MB for NVIDIA Nsight software	32-bit machine with NVIDIA Nsight Host software: 240 MB plus space for your project files 64-bit machine with NVIDIA Nsight Host software: 330 MB plus space for your project files. If using remote machine to run/debug target application, remote machine: 240 MB plus space for the debug version of your target application
Hardware	Monitor dedicated to target GPU	DVI connection recommended
Local debugging (host and target on same machine)	One or more GPUs (for more information, see https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-visual-studio-edition-requirements)	same as minimum
Remote debugging (host and target on different machines)	On the target machine: 1 GPU on target machine: must be a supported graphics card (see below). On the host machine (with Visual Studio): 1 GPU on host machine: can be any GPU	same as minimum
Software		same as minimum
Display Driver	You must install an NVIDIA display driver that supports NVIDIA Nsight. Please see the release notes for compatible driver versions.	same as minimum
Local debugging (host and target are the same machine)	.NET Framework 3.5 with SP1 Visual Studio: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 Standard Edition or better OR Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 OR Microsoft Visual Studio 2012	same as minimum
Remote debugging (host and target on different machines)	Host machine: .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1 Visual Studio: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 Standard Edition or better OR Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 OR Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Target machine: .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1	same as minimum
Networking	Internet connection to download installer For remote debugging: TCP/IP network to connect host machine to target machine	same as minimum

NOTE: When running a resource-intensive application through NVIDIA Nsight in a 32-bit environment, you may encounter a problem with running out of virtual address space. This is because by default, virtual address space for a 32-bit process is limited to 2 GB.

As a workaround, you can compile test applications with the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag, which raises the available virtual address space to 3 GB on a 32-bit system, and 4 GB on a 64-bit system. In order for this solution to work, the system should have at least 4 GB RAM.

Ideally, resource-intensive applications should be run in a Windows 7/64-bit environment, with a minimum of 8 GB RAM.

For more information, see the following:

Memory Limits for Windows Releases

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Supported Graphics Cards

For the latest updates to the list of supported GPUs, see Nsight Visual Studio Edition Supported GPUs.

GeForce	Quadro	Tesla
GeForce GTX TITAN GeForce GTX 780 GeForce GTX 770 GeForce GTX 760 GeForce GTX 690 GeForce GTX 680 GeForce GTX 670 GeForce GTX 660 GeForce GTX 660M GeForce GT 650M GeForce GT 640M GeForce GTX 580 GeForce GTX 570 GeForce GTX 570M GeForce GTX 560 Ti GeForce GTX 560 GeForce GTX 560M GeForce GTX 555M GeForce GTX 550 Ti GeForce GTX 550M GeForce GT 545 GeForce GT 540M GeForce GT 530 GeForce GT 525M GeForce GT 520 GeForce GTX 480 GeForce GTX 470 GeForce GTX 465 GeForce GTX 460 GeForce GT 430 ION GeForce GTX 295 GeForce GTX 285 GeForce GTX 280 GeForce GTX 275 GeForce GTX 260 GeForce 8800 GS GeForce 9600 GS GeForce 8800 GT GeForce 9800 GT GeForce GTS 240 GeForce 8800 GTS 512 GeForce 9800 GTX GeForce 9800 GTX+ GeForce GTS 250 GeForce 9800 GX2 GeForce 9600 GS GeForce 9600 GSO 512 GeForce 9600 GT GeForce G210 GeForce 9400 GT GeForce 9500 GS GeForce GT 120 GeForce 9500 GT GeForce G100 GeForce 9300 GE GeForce 8400 GeForce 9300 SE GeForce 8400 GS GeForce 9300 GS GeForce GT 220 GeForce NVS 2100 GeForce G210 GeForce NVS 3100 GeForce 210 GeForce 310	Quadro K6000 Quadro K5000 Quadro K4000 Quadro 6000 Quadro 5000 Quadro 5000M Quadro 4000 Quadro 4000M Quadro 3000M Quadro 2000 Quadro 2000M Quadro 1000M Quadro 600 Quadro VX 200 Quadro CX Quadro NVS 4200M Quadro FX 5800 Quadro FX 4800 Quadro FX 3800 Quadro FX 3700 Quadro FX 1800 Quadro FX 580 Quadro FX 380 Quadro FX 380 LP Quadro FX 370	Tesla K20 Tesla K10 Tesla M2090 Tesla M2075 Tesla C2075 Tesla M2070 Tesla C2070 Tesla C2050 Tesla M2050 Tesla S1070 Tesla C1060

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