The next generation of NVIDIA graphics hardware has arrived. Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs deliver groundbreaking new RTX features such as DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and NVIDIA RTX Kit with RTX Mega Geometry and RTX Neural Shaders. NVIDIA RTX Blackwell architecture introduces fifth-generation Tensor Cores to drive AI workloads and fourth-generation RT Cores with double the triangle intersection rate of the previous generation. It is equipped with ultra-fast GDDR7 memory delivering massive boosts to total memory bandwidth. NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools support graphics developers to create even more realistic worlds and simulations with GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs.Design and optimize ray tracing applications in NVIDIA Nsight GraphicsNVIDIA Nsight Graphics is a standalone tool for designing, debugging, and optimizing games and other graphics applications. In version 2025.1 all development workflows are now available on Blackwell GPUs: Frame Debugging, the Ray Tracing Inspector, GPU Trace, the Real Time Shader Profiler, and Vulkan Shader Debugging.For developers working on optimization, a leading feature of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture is the significant increase in performance counter observation capabilities, supporting about 8x the number of counters as the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture. Hardware performance counters and the software stack that manages them—the NVIDIA Nsight Perf SDK library—form the basis of profiling tools such as Nsight Graphics GPU Trace. Expanded counters in the Blackwell architecture bring a revolutionary new level of detail in streaming multiprocessor (SM) utilization and efficiency, warp and resource occupancy, cache bandwidths, hit rates, and much more. GPU Trace reveals these counters on a timeline, and in improved tables and tooltips. With the ability to collect more counters simultaneously, you don’t have to choose your configuration or re-run your application. You receive everything in a single run. System-wide performance tuning in NVIDIA Nsight SystemsNVIDIA Nsight Systems provides a top-down capture of graphics application performance and utilization of resources across both the CPU and GPU. This enables performance limiters to be identified and correlated with other hardware events to guide tuning activities. Use cases include determining CPU-bound versus GPU-bound portions of the runtime, stutter analysis, graphics API resource tracking, and more. Nsight Systems 2025.1 adds the ability to record Blackwell GPU metrics.Diagnose crashes with NVIDIA Nsight Aftermath SDKNVIDIA Nsight Aftermath SDK integrates into D3D12 and Vulkan applications to generate GPU crash reports when an exception or TDR occurs, helping developers track down and debug hard-to-reproduce errors in deployed applications. Version 2025.1 adds support for generating crash reports on Blackwell GPUs. Applications should update to the latest SDK to ensure continuous support across all architectures.Real-time HUDs with NVIDIA Nsight Perf SDKNVIDIA Nsight Perf SDK empowers you to bring GPU performance measurement, visualization, and report generation directly into your own application. It includes a built-in HUD renderer to effortlessly enable real-time, high-level performance triage. Nsight Perf SDK is also the underlying foundation for managing hardware performance counters on which all Nsight tools are built. Version 2025.1 adds full support for the expanded set of capabilities for single-pass metrics now available from the Blackwell architecture.Create new worlds and explore the power of AI-enhanced neural rendering technologies, with Nsight Developer Tools to assist you. The full set of tools with support for NVIDIA RTX Blackwell architecture is available now. To get started, download the latest releases:Learn more about Nsight Developer Tools and explore tutorials for Nsight Tools. Ask questions, provide feedback, and engage with the developer community on the Nsight Developer Forums.
