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System Requirements for NVIDIA Nsight Software

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Minimum Recommended
Operating System

Windows® Vista (32 or 64-bit) with SP1, or

Windows® 7 (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, must be a supported graphics card.
(See the list of supported graphics cards below.)

CUDA Debugging - Minimum of 1 GPU

Graphics Debugging - Minimum of 2 GPUs

 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**

 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**

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

 

* 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

EDITBIN Reference

 

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 680
GeForce GTX 580
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GTX 560
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 6000
Quadro 5000
Quadro 4000
Quadro 2000
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro CX
Quadro FX 3800
Quadro FX 3700
Quadro FX 1800
Quadro FX 580
Quadro FX 380
Quadro FX 380 LP
Quadro FX 370

Tesla C2075

Tesla C2070
Tesla C2050
Tesla M2050
Tesla C1060



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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