CUDA Toolkit 12.9
supported- Released
- 2025-05
- Minimum driver — Linux
- 575.51.03
- Minimum driver — Windows
- 576.02
- Supported GPU architectures
- Compute capability (sm_XX)
- Commercial GPU names
- Compatible cuDNN
WSL2 & Docker
WSL2: this version's own driver minimum above already clears the R495 driver branch floor NVIDIA's CUDA-on-WSL2 guide requires for GPU support under WSL2 (docs.nvidia.com/cuda/wsl-user-guide), so no extra driver bump is needed beyond what's listed above -- just remember never to install a separate Linux driver inside WSL2 itself (the Windows driver is exposed into WSL2 automatically). Docker: a host driver >= the Linux minimum above plus the NVIDIA Container Toolkit is sufficient to run this CUDA version in a container -- no extra Docker-specific driver floor beyond that number.
Architecture support corrected 2026-09 against NVIDIA's archived release notes (10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0): Kepler sm_30/sm_32 were dropped in CUDA 11.0 (deprecated since 10.2), Kepler sm_35/sm_37 were removed in 12.0, and Maxwell/Pascal/Volta were removed in 13.0 (still supported, as deprecated, throughout 12.x). Driver minimums verified against NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release notes (Table 3), 2026-08. Release date (May 2025, for the 12.9.0 GA point release) verified 2026-09 against developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-archive, NVIDIA's own toolkit archive listing. computeCapabilities added 2026-08, cross-referenced against developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus and the CUDA C++ Programming Guide's compute-capabilities appendix; minor SKU-specific steppings (e.g. 8.7 for Jetson Orin, 12.1 for specific Blackwell SKUs) are folded into the primary value shown, matching this site's existing cuDNN '9.x'-style bucketing rather than listing every sub-variant. Compute capabilities 10.3 (B300) and 12.1 (GB10 / DGX Spark) added 2026-09-27: the CUDA 12.9 release notes say it adds compiler target support for SM architecture 10.3 (sm_103, sm_103f, sm_103a) and 12.1 (sm_121); 13.x keeps all architectures from Turing through Grace Blackwell.