Annotating Code with NVTX
Naming ranges for readable timelines.
Timelines Need Labels
A raw timeline is full of anonymous bars. NVTX lets you add your own names so the profiler reads like your code. 🏷️
What NVTX Is
NVTX is NVIDIA's Tools Extension: a tiny library for marking regions and events that Nsight then draws on the timeline.
All lessons in this course
- Timeline View in Nsight Systems
- Kernel Metrics in Nsight Compute
- Compute-Bound vs Memory-Bound
- Annotating Code with NVTX