CUDA Minor Version Compatibility#

CUDA Minor Version Compatibility (MVC) enables the use of a newer CUDA Toolkit version than the CUDA version supported by the driver, provided that the Toolkit and driver both have the same major version. For example, use of CUDA Toolkit 12.9 with CUDA driver 570 (CUDA version 12.8) is supported through MVC.

Numba supports MVC using the linker in the NVIDIA CUDA Python bindings, which uses nvjitlink to provide MVC.