NVIDIA Nsight Systems User Guide

Overview

Nsight Systems is a statistical sampling profiler with tracing features. It is designed to work with devices and devkits based on NVIDIA Tegra SoCs (system-on-chip) or systems based on the x86_64 processor architecture that also include NVIDIA GPU(s).

Throughout this document we will refer to the device on which profiling happens as the target, and the computer on which the user works and controls the profiling session as the host. Note that for x86_64 based systems these may be on the same device, whereas with Tegra based systems they will always be separate.

Furthermore, three different activities are distinguished as follows:

Since Nsight Systems supports multiple generations of Tegra SoCs, NVIDIA discrete GPUs, and x86_64 processors, as well as various target operating systems, this documentation only describes the features available in the build of Nsight Systems it ships with.

Common features that are supported by Nsight Systems on most platforms include the following:

With Nsight Systems, a user could:


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