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CUDA Driver Release News Exclusive: NVIDIA Announces Latest Updates and Features

Our exclusive CUDA driver release news pipeline continues. We have seen early staging branches of the R560 driver, which contains a flag called --kernel-mode-only . This suggests NVIDIA is preparing a driver that can run entirely in user space, bypassing the OS kernel entirely for AI workloads—a "micro-driver" to fight back against AMD’s ROCm and Intel’s SYCL.

We scraped (anonymized) comments from NVIDIA’s internal developer Slack (Channel: #cuda-driver-beta): cuda driver release news exclusive

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The most significant news in this driver release is the finalized enablement for the series. CUDA Driver Release News Exclusive: NVIDIA Announces Latest

To leverage these new features, developers must ensure their drivers meet the latest requirements: beta tester benchmarks

Sources: Internal NVIDIA driver release notes (leaked), beta tester benchmarks, and anonymous developer interviews.