Platform Support

This documents provides an overview of the GPU Operator lifecycle and the GPUs and system Platform configurations supported.

GPU Operator Lifecycle

The GPU Operator versions are expressed as x.y.z or <major, minor, patch> and follows the semver terminology.

Only the most recent release of the GPU Operator is maintained through z patch updates. All prior releases of the GPU Operator are deprecated (and unsupported) when a new x.y version of the GPU Operator is released.

The product lifecycle and versioning are subject to change in the future.

GPU Operator Component Matrix

Release	NVIDIA GPU Driver	NVIDIA Driver Manager for K8s	NVIDIA Container Toolkit	NVIDIA Kubernetes Device Plugin	DCGM Exporter	Node Feature Discovery	NVIDIA GPU Feature Discovery for Kubernetes	NVIDIA MIG Manager for Kubernetes	DCGM	Validator for NVIDIA GPU Operator	NVIDIA KubeVirt GPU Device Plugin	NVIDIA vGPU Device Manager
1.11	515.48.07 (default), 510.47.03, 470.129.06, 450.191.01	v0.4.0	1.10.0	0.12.2	2.4.5-2.6.7	v0.10.1	0.6.1	0.4.2	2.4.5-1	v1.11.0	v1.1.2	v0.1.0
1.10	510.47.03	v0.3.0	1.9.0	0.11.0	2.3.4-2.6.4	0.8.2	0.5.0	0.3.0	2.3.4.1	v1.10.0	N/A	N/A
1.9.1	470.82.01	v0.2.0	1.7.2	0.10.0	2.3.1-2.6.1	0.8.2	0.4.1	0.2.0	2.3.1	v1.9.1	N/A	N/A
1.9.0	470.82.01	v0.2.0	1.7.2	0.10.0	2.3.1-2.6.0	0.8.2	0.4.1	0.2.0	2.3.1	v1.9.0	N/A	N/A
1.8.2	470.57.02	v0.1.0	1.7.1	0.9.0	2.2.9-2.4.0	0.8.2	0.4.1	0.1.3	2.2.3	v1.8.2	N/A	N/A
1.8.1	470.57.02	v0.1.0	1.6.0	0.9.0	2.2.9-2.4.0	0.8.2	0.4.1	0.1.2	2.2.3	v1.8.1	N/A	N/A
1.8.0	470.57.02	v0.1.0	1.6.0	0.9.0	2.2.9-2.4.0	0.8.2	0.4.1	0.1.2	2.2.3	v1.8.0	N/A	N/A
1.7.1	460.73.01	N/A	1.5.0	0.9.0	2.1.8-2.4.0-rc.2	0.8.2	0.4.1	0.1.0	N/A	v1.7.1	N/A	N/A
1.7.0	460.73.01	N/A	1.5.0	0.9.0	2.1.8-2.4.0-rc.2	0.6.0	0.4.1	0.1.0	N/A	v1.7.0	N/A	N/A
1.6.2	460.32.03	N/A	1.4.7	0.8.2	2.2.0	0.6.0	0.4.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.6.1	460.32.03	N/A	1.4.6	0.8.2	2.2.0	0.6.0	0.4.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.6.0	460.32.03	N/A	1.4.5	0.8.2	2.2.0	0.6.0	0.4.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.5.2	450.80.02	N/A	1.4.4	0.8.1	2.1.2	0.6.0	0.4.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.5.1	450.80.02	N/A	1.4.3	0.7.3	2.1.2	0.6.0	0.3.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.5.0	450.80.02	N/A	1.4.2	0.7.3	2.1.2	0.6.0	0.3.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.4.0	450.80.02	N/A	1.4.0	0.7.1	2.1.2	0.6.0	0.2.2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.3.0	450.80.02	N/A	1.3.0	0.7.0	2.1.0	0.6.0	0.2.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.2.0	450.80.02	N/A	1.3.0	0.7.0	2.1.0-rc.2	0.6.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
1.1.0	440.64.00	N/A	1.0.5	1.0.0-beta4	1.7.2	0.5.0	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Note

• Driver version could be different with NVIDIA vGPU, as it depends on the driver version downloaded from the NVIDIA vGPU Software Portal.

• The GPU Operator is supported on all the R450, R470, R510 and 515 NVIDIA datacenter production drivers. For a list of supported datacenter drivers versions, visit this link.

Supported NVIDIA GPUs/Systems

The following NVIDIA datacenter/enterprise GPUs are supported on x86 based platforms:

Datacenter A-series ProductsDatacenter D,T and V-series ProductsDatacenter RTX / T-series Products

Product	Architecture
NVIDIA DGX A100	A100 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA HGX A100	A100 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA A100	NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A100X	NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A40	NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A30	NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A30X	NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A16	NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A10	NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A2	NVIDIA Ampere

Note

The GPU Operator supports DGX A100 with DGX OS 5.1+ and Red Hat OpenShift using Red Hat Core OS. For installation instructions, see here for DGX OS 5.1+ and here for Red Hat OpenShift.

Supported ARM based platforms

The following NVIDIA datacenter/enterprise GPUs are supported:

ARM platforms

Product	Architecture
NVIDIA A100X	Ampere
NVIDIA A30X	Ampere
AWS EC2 G5g instaces	Turing

Note

The GPU Operator only supports platforms using discrete GPUs - Jetson or other embedded products with integrated GPUs are not supported.

Supported deployment options, hypervisors and NVIDIA vGPU based products

The GPU Operator has been validated in the following scenarios:

Deployment Options
Bare Metal
Virtual machines with GPU Passthrough
Virtual machines with NVIDIA vGPU based products

Hypervisors (On-premises)

Hypervisors
VMware vSphere 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)

NVIDIA vGPU based products

NVIDIA vGPU based products
NVIDIA vGPU (NVIDIA AI Enterprise)
NVIDIA vCompute Server
NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation

Note

GPU Operator is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 12.0+

Supported Operating Systems and Kubernetes platforms

The GPU Operator has been validated in the following scenarios:

Note

The Kubernetes community supports only the last three minor releases as of v1.17. Older releases may be supported through enterprise distributions of Kubernetes such as Red Hat OpenShift.

Bare Metal / Virtual Machines with GPU PassthroughVirtual Machines with NVIDIA vGPU

	Kubernetes	Red Hat OpenShift	VMware vSphere with Tanzu
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24		VMware vSphere 7.0 U3c
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24
CentOS 7	1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24
Red Hat Core OS		4.9, 4.10

Note

Red Hat OpenShift is supported on the AWS (G4, G5, P3 and P4), Azure (NC-T4-v3, NC-v3 and ND-A100-v4) and GCP (T4, V100, A100 based instances).

Supported Container Runtimes

The GPU Operator has been validated in the following scenarios:

Product	Containerd 1.4+	CRI-O
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	Yes	No
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	Yes	No
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	Yes	No
CentOS 7	Yes	No
Red Hat Core OS (RHCOS)	No	Yes

Note

The GPU Operator has been validated with version 2 of the containerd config file.

NVIDIA AI Enterprise support matrix

The latest version of NVIDIA AI Enterprise supports the following scenarios:

Bare Metal / Virtual Machines with GPU PassthroughVirtual Machines with NVIDIA vGPU

	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	Red Hat Core OS (RHCOS)
Kubernetes	1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24	1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24
Red Hat OpenShift			4.9.9+, 4.10
VMware vSphere with Tanzu	VMware vSphere 7.0 U3c

Note

Red Hat OpenShift is supported on the AWS (G4, G5, P3 and P4), Azure (NC-T4-v3, NC-v3 and ND-A100-v4) and GCP (T4, V100, A100 based instances).

Support for GPUDirect RDMA

Supported operating systems and NVIDIA GPU Drivers with GPUDirect RDMA.

	470 GPU Driver	510 GPU Driver	515 GPU Driver
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Network Operator 1.2	470.129.06	510.47.03	515.48.07
Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 with Network Operator 1.2	470.129.06	510.47.03	515.48.07
CentOS 7 with MOFED installed on the node	470.129.06	510.47.03	515.48.07

For more information on GPUDirect RDMA refer to this document.

Additional supported container management tools:

• Helm v3

• Red Hat Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM)

Technical Preview

Try out below features that are in technical preview and share feedback and contribute .

• KubeVirt support with vGPU and GPU Passthrough

• Kubernetes on ARM with Server Base System Architecture (SBSA)

Previous GPU Operator Releases

The following table outlines a historic view of GPU Operator support matrix.

Bare metal / Virtual machines with GPU PassthroughVirtual machines with NVIDIA vCompute Server and NVIDIA RTX Virtual WorkstationNVIDIA AI Enterprise

GPU Operator Release	Kubernetes	OpenShift	Anthos
1.11	v1.21+	4.9, 4.10	Supported
1.10	v1.21+	4.9, 4.10	Supported
1.9	v1.19+	4.8, 4.9	Supported
1.8	v1.18+	4.7, 4.8, 4.9	Supported
1.7	v1.18+	4.5, 4.6, 4.7	Supported
1.6	v1.16+	4.5, 4.6, 4.7	Supported
1.5	v1.13+	4.4.29+, 4.5, 4.6	Supported
1.4	v1.13+	4.4.29+, 4.5, 4.6	Supported
1.3	v1.13+	4.4.29+, 4.5, 4.6	Supported
1.2	v1.13+	Not supported	Supported
1.1.7	v1.13+	4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4	Supported
1.1	v1.13+	Not supported	Not supported
1.0	v1.13+	Not supported	Not supported

• Red Hat OpenShift 4.10 on ARM Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) systems.

• KubeVirt with GPU Passthrough and NVIDIA vGPU.