nvidia-nsight-compute
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Description:
Interactive profiler for CUDA and NVIDIA OptiX
Type: Cask  |  Latest Version: 2026.1.1.3@0  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  @NVIDIADeveloper  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: cuda profiler nvidia gpu developer-tools
Install: brew install --cask nvidia-nsight-compute
About:
NVIDIA Nsight Compute is an interactive kernel profiler for CUDA applications. It provides detailed performance metrics and debugging insights to help developers optimize CUDA kernels and analyze GPU performance bottlenecks. The tool supports source-level analysis for NVIDIA GPUs.
Key Features:
  • Interactive kernel profiling with source code correlation
  • Detailed performance metrics and hardware counters
  • CUDA and OptiX API inspection
  • GPU performance bottleneck analysis
Use Cases:
  • Optimizing CUDA kernel performance for deep learning workloads
  • Debugging and profiling GPU-accelerated applications
Alternatives:
  • NVIDIA Nsight Systems – System-wide profiler vs kernel-focused compute profiler
  • rocprof – AMD's profiler alternative for ROCm/HIP
Version History
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Apr 15, 2026 1:49am 2026.1.1.3 0 VERSION_BUMP 3acaeff4
Apr 14, 2026 5:26am 2026.1.1.2 0 VERSION_BUMP 6efd9780
Apr 10, 2026 5:35pm 2026.1.0.2 0 VERSION_BUMP be833946
Apr 10, 2026 5:26pm 2025.3.0.19-36273991 0 VERSION_BUMP 4f32a8eb
Sep 15, 2025 12:43pm 2025.3.0.19-36273991 0 VERSION_BUMP 7b49b70d
Sep 7, 2025 10:29pm 2025.3.0.19-36273991 0 VERSION_BUMP 5b336156
Aug 4, 2025 10:03pm 2025.3.0.19-36273991 0 VERSION_BUMP 18a6f048