Open Intel® VTune™ Profiler

To start using Intel® VTune™ Profiler:

  1. Locate the directory where you installed Intel® VTune™ Profiler.
  2. Set environment variables.
  3. Open Intel® VTune™ Profiler

Locate the Install Directory

Whether you downloaded Intel® VTune™ Profiler as a standalone component or with the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, find the default path for your <install-dir> here:

Operating System Path to <install-dir>

Windows* OS

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\
  • C:\Program Files\Intel\oneAPI\

    (in certain systems)

Linux* OS

  • /opt/intel/oneapi/ for root users
  • $HOME/intel/oneapi/ for non-root users

Set Environment Variables

To set environment variables for VTune Profiler, run the setvars script:

Linux* OS:source <install-dir>/setvars.sh

Windows* OS:<install-dir>\setvars.bat

When the script executes, you see the product name and the build number. You can now use the vtune and vtune-gui commands.

Open VTune Profiler from the GUI

On Windows* OS, use the Search menu or locate VTune Profiler from the Start menu to run the standalone GUI client.

For the version of VTune Profiler that is integrated into Microsoft* Visual Studio* IDE on Windows OS, do one of the following:

Open VTune Profiler from the Command Line

To start VTune Profiler from the command line, run the following scripts from the <install-dir>/bin64 directory:

To open a specific VTune Profiler project or a result file, type

> vtune-gui <path>

where <path> is one of the following:

For example, to open the matrix project in the VTune Profiler GUI on a Linux OS, run:

vtune-gui /root/intel/vtune/projects/matrix/matrix.vtuneproj

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