site:developer.nvidia.com "CUDA 12.5" "Release Notes" December 2025
The most significant addition was the model.
Provided updated support for the 13.1 features. Critical Fixes & Maintenance
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: The release integrates CUDA Core Compute Library (CCCL) version 3.0 , which unifies Thrust, CUB, and libcudacxx under a single header structure and mandates C++17 or newer. Component Versions in CUDA 13.1 nvidia cuda release notes december 2025
The release of in early December 2025 marked a historic shift in GPU programming, introducing a new "tile-based" philosophy that simplifies how developers harness massive hardware power . Key Highlights: The "Tiled" Future
According to the CUDA Toolkit Archive , the following versions were core to the December release: (December 4, 2025).
https://web.archive.org/web/202512*/https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/12.5/release-notes/index.html site:developer
It moves developers away from managing individual threads (SIMT) to thinking in "tiles" or chunks of data.
| Approx. release date | Expected version | Typical naming on NVIDIA site | |----------------------|------------------|--------------------------------| | Early 2025 | 12.3 | cuda-12.3.2 | | Mid‑2025 (summer) | 12.4 | cuda-12.4.0 | | Late 2025 (Oct‑Dec) | 12.5 (Update) | cuda-12.5.0 or cuda-12.5.1 |