CUDA DL Release 25.12

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 13.1.0
• NVIDIA cuBLAS 13.2.0.9
• NVIDIA cuDNN 9.17.0.29
• NVIDIA NCCL 2.28.9
• rdma-core 56.0
• NVIDIA HPC-X 2.25.1
• OpenUCX 1.20.0
• GDRCopy 2.5.1
• TensorBoard 2.16.2
• Nsight Compute 2025.4.0.12
• Nsight Systems 2025.5.2.266
• NVIDIA TensorRT™ 10.14.1

Driver Requirements

Release 25.12 is based on CUDA 13.1.0. 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.