Updates in 2020.1.1 — NsightCompute 12.4 documentation

# Updates in 2020.1.1

General

- Added support for the NVIDIA GA100/SM 8.x GPU architecture

- Metrics passed to `--metrics` on the NVIDIA Nsight Compute CLI or in the respective Profile activity option are automatically expanded to all first-level sub-metrics if required. See the documentation on `--metrics` for more details.

- Added new rules for detecting inefficiencies of using the sparse data compression on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture.

- The version of the NVIDIA Nsight Compute target collecting the results is shown in the Session page.

- Added new `launch__grid_dim_[x,y,z]` and `launch__block_dim_[x,y,z]` metrics.

NVIDIA Nsight Compute

- The Break on API Error functionality has been improved when auto profiling.

NVIDIA Nsight Compute CLI

- The full path to the report output file is printed after profiling.

- Added and corrected metrics in the nvprof Metric Comparison table.

Resolved Issues

- Documented the breakdown: metrics prefix.

- Fixed handling of escaped domain delimiters in NVTX filter expressions.

- Fixed issues with the occupancy charts for small block sizes.

- Fixed an issue when choosing a default report page in the options dialog.

- Fixed that the scroll bar could overlap the content when exporting the report page as an image.