How to Profile Modern PC Games with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

NVIDIA Nsight Graphics is presented as a tool for profiling modern Direct3D12 and Vulkan PC games by capturing detailed GPU execution with GPU Trace.

The guide uses Peak-Performance-Percentage analysis to identify which GPU units are close to their theoretical throughput and to determine whether workloads are throughput-limited.

Recent Nsight releases add features such as a Shader Profiler Flame Graph and visibility into NGX workloads like DLSS, improving analysis for ray-traced and ML-assisted rendering.