Version 560.35.03(Linux)/560.94(Windows)

Release notes for the Release 560 family of NVIDIA® Data Center GPU Drivers for Linux and Windows.

This edition of Release Notes describes the Release 560 family of NVIDIA® Data Center GPU Drivers for Linux and Windows. NVIDIA provides these notes to describe performance improvements, bug fixes and limitations in each documented version of the driver.

1. Version Highlights

This section provides highlights of the NVIDIA Data Center GPU R560 Driver (version 560.35.03 Linux and 560.94 Windows).

For changes related to the 560 release of the NVIDIA display driver, review the file "NVIDIA_Changelog" available in the .run installer packages.

  • Linux driver release date: 08/22/2024
  • Windows driver release date: 08/22/2024

1.1. Software Versions

For this release, the software versions are as follows:

  • CUDA Toolkit 12: 12.6

    Note that starting with CUDA 11, individual components of the toolkit are versioned independently. For a full list of the individual versioned components (for example, nvcc, CUDA libraries, and so on), see the CUDA Toolkit Release Notes.

  • NVIDIA Data Center GPU Driver: 560.35.03 (Linux) / 560.94 (Windows)

  • Fabric Manager: 560.35.03 (Use nv-fabricmanager -v)

  • NVFlash: 5.791

For more information on getting started with the NVIDIA Fabric Manager on NVSwitch-based systems (for example, NVIDIA HGX A100), refer to the Fabric Manager User Guide.

1.2. Fixed Issues

  • In Fabric Manager, an issue was fixed where NVLink multicast CUDA allocations would fail under Shared NVSwitch Virtualization deployment when the Tenant VM was using an older version of GPU driver, while the Service VM was using the latest R550 FM/ Driver release. [4739559]

  • In Fabric Manager, an issue was fixed where the FM would crash during a GPU reset after FM was restarted with the –restart option in Shared NVSwitch Virtualization model. [4698530]

  • Due to a kernel bug, under very specific conditions, the write operations from CPU to GPU could appear out of order, causing the GPU to miss tasks. The fix was to add a store fence to ensure correctness. [4696469]

  • Fixed an issue in kernel RM and NVML that produced incorrect PCIe TX/RX counters. [4667045]

  • On nvswitch based systems, the nvidia-smi topo command showed NS for some GPUs in the connectivity matrix. This issue has been fixed and the matrix now shows the correct connectivity after the nvidia-fabricmanager service is started. [4547730]

  • Fixed a segmentation fault when using cudaMalloc in CUDA driver that was affecting certain applications. [4511621]

  • The migration to CDPv2 introduced a regression where the entry patch was only applied to functions that use CDP. This meant that, if a function in a CDP module was called from a non-CDP context, no entry patch was applied, even though the blockIdx accesses in the function had been patched to read from the WAR memory. This resulted in the blockIdx reading incorrect data. The fix restores the original behavior of applying the entry patch to all functions in CDP modules, regardless of whether or not they use CDP. [4419815]

  • Fixed an error in the calculation of virtual address width for canonical form addresses. [4413514]

  • A regression introduced in kernel v6.6 that led to double faulting is resolved. [4318299]

2. Virtualization

To make use of GPU passthrough with virtual machines running Windows and Linux, the hardware platform must support the following features:

  • A CPU with hardware-assisted instruction set virtualization: Intel VT-x or AMD-V.

  • Platform support for I/O DMA remapping.

  • On Intel platforms, the DMA remapper technology is called Intel VT-d.

  • On AMD platforms, it is called AMD IOMMU.

Support for these features varies by processor family, product, and system, and should be verified at the manufacturer's website.

The following hypervisors are supported for virtualization:

Hypervisor Notes
Citrix XenServer Version 6.0 and later
VMware vSphere (ESX / ESXi) Version 5.1 and later.
Red Hat KVM Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with KVM
Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Generation 2
Data Center products now support one display of up to 2560x1600 resolution.

The following GPUs are supported for device passthrough for virtualization:

GPU Family Boards Supported
NVIDIA Ada Lovelace NVIDIA L40, L4
NVIDIA Grace Hopper NVIDIA GH200
NVIDIA Hopper NVIDIA H100, NVIDIA H800
NVIDIA Ampere GPU Architecture NVIDIA A800, A100, A40, A30, A16, A10, A10G, A2, AX800
NVIDIA Turing NVIDIA T4, NVIDIA T4G
NVIDIA Volta NVIDIA V100
NVIDIA Pascal

Quadro: P2000, P4000, P5000, P6000, GP100

Tesla: P100, P40, P4

NVIDIA Maxwell

Quadro: K2200, M2000, M4000, M5000, M6000, M6000 24GB

Tesla: M60, M40, M6, M4

3. Hardware and Software Support

Support for these features varies by processor family, product, and system, and should be verified at the manufacturer's website.

Supported Operating Systems for NVIDIA Data Center GPUs

The Release 560 driver is supported on the following operating systems:

  • Windows x86_64 operating systems:

    • Microsoft Windows® Server 2022 21H2
    • Microsoft Windows® 11 23H2
    • Microsoft Windows® 11 22H2 - SV2
    • Microsoft Windows® 11 21H2 - SV1

    • Microsoft Windows® 10 22H2
  • The following table summarizes the supported Linux 64-bit distributions. For a complete list of distributions, kernel versions supported, see the CUDA Linux System Requirements documentation.

    Distribution x86_64 Arm64 Server
    Debian 12.x (where x <= 6) Yes No
    Debian 11.x (where x <= 10) Yes No
    OpenSUSE Leap 15.x (where y <= 6) Yes No
    Fedora 39 Yes No
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.y (where y <= 4) Yes Yes
    Rocky Linux 9.y (where y <= 4) Yes No
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.y (where y <= 10) Yes Yes
    Rocky Linux 8.y (where y <= 10) Yes No
    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15.y (where y <= 6) Yes Yes
    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Yes Yes
    Ubuntu 22.04.z LTS (where z <= 4) Yes Yes
    Ubuntu 20.04.z LTS (where z <= 6) Yes Yes
    KylinOS V10 SP3 2403 Yes Yes
    Amazon Linux AL2023 Yes No
    Microsoft Azure Linux 2.0 Yes No

Supported Operating Systems and CPU Configurations for NVIDIA HGX H20

  • Hopper Linux distributions:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4

    • Ubuntu 22.04 with NVIDIA HWE kernel

  • Windows 64-bit distributions:
    • Windows Server 2022

Supported Operating Systems and CPU Configurations for NVIDIA HGX GH200

  • Grace Hopper Linux distributions:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 QU1
    • Ubuntu 22.04 with NVIDIA HWE kernel

      RHEL and SLES feature parity with NVIDIA HWE Kernels. The latest RHEL 9 and SLES 15 SP5 kernels support bare metal.

Supported Operating Systems and CPU Configurations for NVIDIA HGX H200

The Release 560 driver is validated with NVIDIA HGX H200 on the following operating systems and CPU configurations:

  • Linux 64-bit distributions:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
    • Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

  • Windows 64-bit distributions:
    • Windows Server 2022
    • Windows is supported only in shared NVSwitch virtualization configurations.

Supported Operating Systems and CPU Configurations for NVIDIA HGX H100/H800

The Release 560 driver is validated with NVIDIA HGX H100 on the following operating systems and CPU configurations:

  • Linux 64-bit distributions:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15.6 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
    • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
    • Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

  • Windows 64-bit distributions:
    • Windows Server 2022
    • Windows is supported only in shared NVSwitch virtualization configurations.

Supported Operating Systems and CPU Configurations for NVIDIA HGX A100/A800

The Release 560 driver is validated with NVIDIA HGX A100 on the following operating systems and CPU configurations:

  • Linux 64-bit distributions:

    • Debian 12.6
    • Debian 11.10
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

    • Rocky Linux 8.10 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
    • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
    • Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

    • Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

    • SUSE SLES 15.6 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

    • KylinOS V10 SP3 2403
  • Windows 64-bit distributions:
    • Windows Server 2022
    • Windows is supported only in shared NVSwitch virtualization configurations.

  • CPU Configurations:
    • AMD Rome in PCIe Gen4 mode

    • Intel Skylake/Cascade Lake (4-socket) in PCIe Gen3 mode

Supported Virtualization Configurations

The Release 560 driver is validated with NVIDIA HGX A100, HGX A800, H100, and H800 on the following configurations:

  • Passthrough (full visibility of GPUs and NVSwitches to guest VMs):

    • 8-GPU configurations with Ubuntu 20.04.6 and 22.4.2

  • Shared NVSwitch (guest VMs only have visibility of GPUs and full NVLink bandwidth between GPUs in the same guest VM):

    • 1/2/4/8/16-GPU configurations with Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

API Support

This release supports the following APIs:

  • NVIDIA® CUDA® 12.4 for NVIDIA® MaxwellTM, PascalTM, VoltaTM, TuringTM, HopperTM, NVIDIA Ampere architecture, and NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU architecture GPUs

  • OpenGL® 4.6

  • Vulkan® 1.3

  • DirectX 11

  • DirectX 12 (Windows 10)

  • Open Computing Language (OpenCLTM software) 3.0

Note that for using graphics APIs on Windows (such as OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX 11, and DirectX 12) or any WDDM 2.0+ based functionality on Data Center GPUs, vGPU is required. See the vGPU documentation for more information.

Supported NVIDIA Data Center GPUs

The NVIDIA Data Center GPU driver package is designed for systems that have one or more Data Center GPU products installed. This release of the driver supports CUDA C/C++ applications and libraries that rely on the CUDA C Runtime and/or CUDA Driver API.

Attention: Release 470 was the last driver branch to support Data Center GPUs based on the NVIDIA Kepler architecture. This includes discontinued support for the following compute capabilities:
  • sm_30 (NVIDIA Kepler)
  • sm_32 (NVIDIA Kepler)
  • sm_35 (NVIDIA Kepler)
  • sm_37 (NVIDIA Kepler)
For more information on GPU products and compute capability, see https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus.
NVIDIA Server Platforms
Product Architecture
NVIDIA HGX H20 8-GPU H20 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU H100 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA HGX H800 8-GPU H800 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA HGX H100 4-GPU H100 and NVLink
NVIDIA HGX A800 8-GPU A800 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA HGX A100 8-GPU A100 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU A100 and NVLink
NVIDIA HGX-2 V100 and NVSwitch
Data Center L-Series Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA L2 NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA L20 NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA L40 NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA L40S NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA L4 NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
Data Center H-Series Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA H100 PCIe NVIDIA Hopper
NVIDIA H100 NVL NVIDIA Hopper
NVIDIA H800 PCIe NVIDIA Hopper
NVIDIA H800 NVL NVIDIA Hopper
RTX-Series / T-Series Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX 5880 Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX 2000E Ada Generation NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA RTX A6000 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A5500 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A5000 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A4500 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A4000H NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A4000 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A2000 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A1000 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A400 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA RTX A800 40GB Active NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Quadro RTX 8000 NVIDIA Turing
Quadro RTX 6000 NVIDIA Turing
Quadro RTX 5000 NVIDIA Turing
Quadro RTX 4000 NVIDIA Turing
NVIDIA T1000 8GB NVIDIA Turing
NVIDIA T600 NVIDIA Turing
NVIDIA T400 4GB NVIDIA Turing
NVIDIA T400 NVIDIA Turing
NVIDIA T400E NVIDIA Turing
Data Center A-Series Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA A2 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA A800, AX800 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA A100X NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA A100

NVIDIA A100 80 GB PCIe

NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA A40 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA A30, A30X NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA A16 NVIDIA Ampere architecture
NVIDIA A10, A10M, A10G NVIDIA Ampere architecture
Data Center T-Series Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA T4, T4G NVIDIA Turing
Data Center V-Series Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA V100 Volta
Data Center P-Series Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA Tesla P100 NVIDIA Pascal
NVIDIA Tesla P40 NVIDIA Pascal
NVIDIA Tesla P4 NVIDIA Pascal
Data Center M-Class Products
Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA Tesla M60 Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M40 Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M6 Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M4 Maxwell

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