CUDA DL Release 25.09

The NVIDIA container image for CUDA Deep Learning is available on NGC.

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Contents of the CUDA DL container

The container includes the following (not a complete list):

• Ubuntu 24.04 including Python 3.12
• NVIDIA CUDA 13.0.1.012
• NVIDIA cuBLAS 13.0.2.14
• NVIDIA cuDNN 9.13.0.48
• NVIDIA NCCL 2.27.7
• rdma-core 50.0
• NVIDIA HPC-X 2.24.1
• GDRCopy 2.4.1
• TensorBoard 2.16.2
• Nsight Compute 2025.3.1.4
• Nsight Systems 2025.5.1.121
• NVIDIA TensorRT™ 10.13.3.9

Driver Requirements

Release 25.09 is based on CUDA 13.0.1. For comprehensive and up-to-date driver compatibility information, please refer to the following documentation:

• NVIDIA CUDA Compatibility Guide - Compati.bility information between CUDA versions and driver releases.
• CUDA Toolkit Release Notes - Driver version requirements and compatibility matrices.
• NVIDIA Drivers Download - Latest NVIDIA drivers.

Key Features and Enhancements

This CUDA DL release includes the following key features and enhancements.

• CUDA DL container image is based on Ubuntu 24.04.

Announcements

• Starting with 25.08 release, CUDA DL Image will be on CUDA 13.0
• Starting with the 25.03 release, NVIDIA provides two CUDA DL images: Developer and Runtime

Known Issues

• Certain distributed jobs may encounter UCX errors involving MLX5, in which case we recommend the use of the environment variable as a workaround: UCX_DC_MLX5_AR_ENABLE=n.