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Pascal's Demise - notes on waning support for Nvidia Pascal architecture
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driver / toolkit in prod

Driver 565.77 CUDA 12.7

(currently Aug 2025 running on 22.04 Linux pop-os 6.12.10-76061203-generic)

CUDA

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html#deprecated-architectures

CUDA Toolkit 12.9 Update 1 - Release Notes

Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures are now feature-complete with no further enhancements planned. While CUDA Toolkit 12.x series will continue to support building applications for these architectures, offline compilation and library support will be removed in the next major CUDA Toolkit version release. Users should plan migration to newer architectures, as future toolkits will be unable to target Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs.

See also: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/pascal-compatibility-guide/index.html

pytorch

pytorch/pytorch#157517 For CUDA 12.8 and 12.9 these architectures are deprecated however still supported. They will be depreacted with CUDA 13.0 release.

https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/frameworks/pytorch-release-notes/rel-23-06.html Starting with the 23.06 release, the NVIDIA Optimized Deep Learning Framework containers will no longer be tested on Pascal GPU architectures.

  • Though 23.12 has been cited somwhere?

https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/pytorch

  • try nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:23.12-py3
  • also contains Rapids, Dali
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