---
id: nvidia-nvtx-cu12
version: "12.9.79"
license: Apache 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: aging
---

# nvidia-nvtx-cu12 — NVIDIA Tools Extension

License: permissive · Maintenance: aging · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install nvidia-nvtx-cu12
uv add nvidia-nvtx-cu12
poetry add nvidia-nvtx-cu12

## Description

A C-based API for annotating events, code ranges, and resources in your applications. Applications which integrate NVTX can use the Visual Profiler to capture and visualize these events and ranges.

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Provides a C-based API for annotating events, code ranges, and resources in Python applications to enable capture and visualization through NVIDIA's Visual Profiler.

Verdict: A stable, permissively licensed profiling annotation library from NVIDIA with no known vulnerabilities and zero runtime dependencies. Aging maintenance (434 days since release) and medium install friction from platform-specific wheels are the primary considerations; suitable for CUDA-based ML/scientific workloads where profiling integration is needed.

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