Each NVIDIA GPU driver comes with a supported CUDA Runtime Version. Note that this Runtime reflects capabilities of the driver itself to run CUDA applications, it is not directly connected to installed CUDA Toolkit / nvcc (if any).
The Runtime version is shown at start of nvidia-smi output, for example,
Mon Oct 20 15:52:35 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 575.57.08 Driver Version: 575.57.08 CUDA Version: 12.9 |
The matching between GPU driver versions and CUDA Runtime versions is given in the table below.
|
GPU Driver Version |
CUDA Runtime Version |
|---|---|
|
525 |
12.0 |
|
535 |
12.2 |
|
545 |
12.3 |
|
550 |
12.4 |
|
555 |
12.5 |
|
560 |
12.6 |
|
565 |
12.7 |
|
570 |
12.8 |
|
575 |
12.9 |
|
580 |
13.0 |