Intel® VTune™ Profiler Release Notes and System Requirements

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This page contains the release notes and system requirements for 2026 version of Intel® VTune™ Profiler. The notes are categorized by major version, from newest to oldest, with individual releases listed within each version section.

This page contains the release notes and system requirements for 2026 version of Intel® VTune™ Profiler. The notes are categorized by major version, from newest to oldest, with individual releases listed within each version section.

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Where to Find the Release

You can get the latest version of Intel® VTune™ Profiler as part of the Intel® oneAPI Toolkit, or as a Stand-Alone download.

If you have Priority Support for Intel® oneAPI Toolkit or any other oneAPI toolkit (i.e. an unexpired free license or a paid license with active support at the time of the build date for this product release), you can download the installer by logging in to Intel® Registration Center and selecting the appropriate product. You may need to create an account and/or register your product. For additional information please see: Product Registration and Sign-Up FAQ

Release history

Release version

Release Date

2026.0

April 28, 2026

New in this Release

2026.0

Highlights

  • Intel® VTune™ Profiler adds support for the latest Intel® platforms, including Intel Core Series 3 processors (formerly known as Wildcat Lake) and Clearwater Forest processors..
  • Faster insights through improved XPU offload analysis.
    • VTune™ Profiler accelerates time to results with improved finalization for XPU Offload analysis
    • Enhanced usability with the ability to select Instrumentation and Tracing Technology (ITT) top domains directly from both the GUI and CLI, giving you greater flexibility in how you configure and run your analysis
  • Python Support:  Intel® VTune™ Profiler now supports Python 3.13 and 3.14, ensuring compatibility with the latest Python releases
  • Combined GPU / Media Hotspots Analysis: Latest release of Intel® VTune™ Profiler introduces a unified GPU / Media Hotspots analysis view that provides integrated performance insights across CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads in a single analysis.
  • Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 is no longer supported; users should migrate to a supported Microsoft Visual Studio* 2022 version

System Requirements

Supported Architectures and Terminology - Intel® 64 Architecture refers to systems based on IA-32 architecture processors which have 64-bit architectural extensions (like Intel® Core™ architecture processors, running a 64-bit operating system such as Microsoft Windows* 10 x64 or a Linux* "x86_64" variant).

Note: Minor releases (e.g., 2026.1) automatically inherit all OS requirements from the base major release (2026.0).Only operating systems marked with (+) are newly added in that minor release, and those marked with (–) are removed. Asterisks(**) indicates Deprecations. All others remain unchanged and are not duplicated in the table.

Hardware Requirements

Release Version

RAM

Disk Space

Supported CPUs

Supported GPUs(GPU Analysis)

Virtualization

Notes

2026.0(Baseline)

At least 8 GB recommended

1.6 GB free disk space required for all product features and architectures

  •  Intel® 64 architecture processor supporting SSE2 (Intel® Pentium® 4 or later, or compatible non-Intel processor)

    • Multi-core or multi-processor system recommended

  • For Hardware event-based sampling analysis (EBS)

    • Intel® Xeon® v3 (or later),

    • Intel® Core™ 4th gen (or later)

  • For Platform Profiler/CPU analysis:

    • Intel® Xeon® (Ice Lake and newer),

    • Intel® Core™ (Ice Lake and newer)

  • Intel® UHD or Iris Xe Graphics (Ice Lake and newer)

  • Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series

  • Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics

  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series

  • EBS:

    • VMware*,

    • KVM*,

    • XEN*,

    • Hyper-V*,

    • Parallels Desktop (PMU virtualization required)

  • Platform Profiler (host only, not guest):

    • KVM*,

    • XEN*

  • VTune Profiler may not analyze programs with non-Intel instructions correctly; use Intel-only instructions for analysis

  • EBS analysis can run driverless via Linux Perf tool

  • To analyze older CPUs which are not listed here, use an older VTune Profiler version

Supported Operating Systems

  • Use a 64-bit operating system host to collect and analyze profiling data using the graphical and command line user interfaces of Intel® VTune™ Profiler.

  • To use the VTune™ Profiler graphical interface on Linux* OS, ensure that you install the required packages. See Prerequisites for Linux Installation. 

Release Version

Feature / Support Area

Linux

Windows

2026.0

Supported Distros / Versions

Embedded Editions are not supproted:

  • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 9, 10

  • CentOS* versions equivalent to Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* versions listed above

  • Fedora* 42,43 (pangox-compat package should be installed)

  • SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server* 15 SP7

  • Debian* 12

  • Ubuntu* 22.04, 24.04, 25.04

  • WSL 2 via Ubuntu, SLES

  • Microsoft* Windows 11 23H2,

  • Microsoft* Windows Pro & Enterprise 11

  • Microsoft* Windows 11 24H2, 10 24H1

  • Microsoft* Windows Server 2022

Supported Kernels 

Other requirements

  • Hardware event-based sampling analysis with stacks requirements: 

    • Linux kernel version 4.18 up to 6.11

  • Driverless hardware event-based sampling analysis requirements:

    • Linux kernel version 4.18 up to 6.11, exporting CPU PMU programming details over /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format file system

64-bit OS required
.NET Framework v4.6.01586+ for Visual Studio integration

GPU Profiling AND Support

Yes with kernel version 4.11 or higher.

  • Red Hat* Enterprise Linux*  9, 10

  • Ubuntu* 22.04, 24.04, 25.04

Yes (64-bit apps only)

Supported Compilers

  • Intel® C/C++ Compiler 11 and higher

  • Intel® Fortran Compiler 11 and higher

  • GNU* C/C++ Compiler 3.4.6 and higher

  • Intel® C/C++ Compiler 11 and higher

  • Intel® Fortran Compiler 11 and higher

  • Intel® Parallel Composer

  • Microsoft* Visual Studio* C/C++ Compiler

  • Cygwin (tested Cygwin 1.7.17 with GCC 4.5.3) 

  • MinGW (tested MinGW with GCC 4.6.2)

Supported IDEs

-

  • Microsoft* Visual Studio* 2022 (v17.5*)

Virtual Machine Targets

Use Intel® VTune™ Profiler on Windows or Linux host machines to profile targets running in virtual environments on those machines. Available support depends on specific combinations of host and guest machines. For more information, see Targets in Virtualized Environments. 

Integrated GPU Support

11th Gen Intel Core and newer only (since oneAPI 2023.1)

Software Requirements

Release Version

Supported Languages

Threading Methodologies(For Threading Analysis)

.NET Environments

Java Environments

OpenCL™ Environments

VTune GUI Requirements

Linux Kernel

2026.0

  • Fortran

  • C

  • C++

  • C#

  • Java*

  • OpenCL™

  • Python*

  • Go

  • Intel® Threading Building Blocks

  • Posix* Threads on Linux

  • Win32* Threads on Windows*

  • OpenMP*

  • Intel® C/C++ Parallel Language Extensions

  •  .NET (Windows* only)

  • .NET Core 2.0 and newer

  • Oracle* JVM 13 and earlier - Hotspots and Hardware event-based analysis types

  • OpenJDK* 13 and earlier -  Hotspots and Hardware event-based analysis types (Linux only) 

  • Intel® CPU Runtime for OpenCL™ Applications 18.1 and newer

  • Intel® Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL™ 

For Windows* systems, the Intel® Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL™ is part of the GPU driver. For Linux* systems, you can download it from Github*. 

  • GTK+ (2.10 or higher. We recommend 2.18 or higher)

  • Pango (1.14 or higher)

  • X.Org (1.0 or higher. We recommend 1.7 or higher)

  • CPU target profiling: Kernel 4.18+

    • You must have kernel drivers or Perf tool enabled to perform Hardware PMU event-based sampling analysis.

  • GPU target profiling: Kernel 4.14+

    • Make sure to configure your system according to GPU analysis requirements.

 

  • You must have the latest drivers to collect GPU usage events and processor graphics hardware events on Windows*. Request drivers from Intel® Support or download them here. 
  • Intel® VTune™ Profiler Platform Profiler data collector requires Python* 3.6 or later
  • To view PDF documents, use a PDF reader, such as Adobe Reader*
  • FPGA analysis requirements : For DPC++ applications designed for FPGAs, compile these applications with -Xsprofile option to ensure source-level mapping of performance data

  • Requirements to compile DPC++ applications: You must compile DPC++ applications with -gline-tables-only and -fdebug-info-for-profiling options to ensure the availability of debug information for performance analysis.

Graphics Driver Installation

  • Windows Intel® Graphics Driver
    To install the driver follow the directions in the article appropriate for your device

    • Intel® Arc™ Graphics, 11th-13th Gen Intel® Core™ processor directions.
    • Xe Dedicated, 6th-10th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor Graphics, and related Intel Atom®, Pentium®, and Celeron® processors directions. Driver version varies depending on the Intel® Graphics in the system.
    • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series (ATS-M). Contact your OEM representative for access to the Intel® Registration Center.
  • Linux General Purpose Intel® GPUs (GPGPU) Driver
    For all Intel® GPUs, see this article, Overview, and follow the directions for your device.

Support Deprecated

Lists the features or tools which will be deprecated, along with date and timeline of deprecation

Support Removed 

  • The following IDE is not longer supported for 2026.0
    • Visual Studio 2019 

Other Documentation and Support

Customers with active Priority Support for Intel® oneAPI Toolkit can open a ticket for this product at Online Service Center.

You can also visit the technical support forum, FAQs, and other support information at:

Attributions

The license information for third party software that was used to develop Intel® VTune™ Profiler can be found in <install_dir>/licensing/third-party-programs.txt .
For the avoidance of doubt, the Intel® VTune™ Profiler is solely governed by the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement for Intel® Software Development Product that accompanies the Intel® VTune™ Profiler.

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