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| pretty_name: "NVIDIA GPU CUDA compute capability by model" |
| license: other |
| license_name: source-terms-cited |
| license_link: https://referencesource.org/nvidia-cuda-compute-capability-by-gpu/ |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - reference-data |
| - provenance |
| - referencesource-org |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/records.jsonl |
| --- |
| # NVIDIA GPU CUDA compute capability by model |
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| **Canonical, always-current version: https://referencesource.org/nvidia-cuda-compute-capability-by-gpu/** |
| Machine-readable: https://referencesource.org/nvidia-cuda-compute-capability-by-gpu/data.json — this mirror is a point-in-time copy. |
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| - **Last verified:** 2026-10-01 |
| - **Stale after:** 2027-01-29 (past this date, prefer the canonical copy — |
| it re-verifies on a cadence this snapshot does not) |
| - **Records:** 442 |
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| Which CUDA compute capability version (e.g. '8.9', '12.0') each NVIDIA GPU model supports, from NVIDIA's own compute-capability table. Compute capability determines which CUDA toolkit version a card needs, which `-arch=sm_XX` / `-gencode` build flags to pass (the target is the capability written without its dot, so 8.9 is sm_89 and 12.0 is sm_120), and whether a PyTorch/TensorFlow wheel built for one architecture will run on a given card. Answers 'what compute capability is my GPU', 'does CUDA 11.8 support the RTX 4090', 'what sm_XX target do I use for an A100'. NVIDIA's own page is the single source of truth and is already well-ranked for individual current-generation cards; the value here is completeness (legacy cards back to the earliest Fermi/Kepler-era GPUs, and every SKU in a generation, not just the flagship) in one machine-readable table, and being current the moment a new architecture (e.g. Blackwell, 12.x) ships, before third-party blogs catch up. |
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| ## Provenance — what every record carries |
| |
| Every record carries `source` (the URL the value was read from) and |
| `source_quote` (a verbatim quote from that page stating it). A value you |
| cannot check against its page is indistinguishable from an invented one; |
| these can all be checked. Each record is also individually addressable on |
| the canonical site at its `url`. |
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| ## Licence position |
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| Source is NVIDIA's own developer documentation (developer.nvidia.com). We take the fact (model to compute-capability mapping) plus attribution linking back; we do not reproduce NVIDIA's full page design or unrelated content. |
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| Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a |
| fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it. |
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| ## Sources |
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| - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/gpus/legacy |
| - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/gpus |
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| ## Fields |
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| See any record in `data/records.jsonl` — field names are self-describing, |
| and the canonical page for each record renders them with labels: |
| https://referencesource.org/nvidia-cuda-compute-capability-by-gpu/ |
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