CUDA Features Archive
Type: Reference Tags: NVIDIA, CUDA, features archive, toolkit versions, driver support, compatibility Related: CUDA-Release-Notes, CUDA-Compatibility, CUDA-Ada-Compatibility-Guide, CUDA-Turing-Compatibility-Guide, NVIDIA-CUDA, CUDA-Programming-Guide, CUDA-Best-Practices-Guide, NVCC Sources: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-features-archive/index.html Last Updated: 2026-04-29
Summary
The CUDA Features Archive is NVIDIA’s current reference page for looking up CUDA feature availability across toolkit and driver releases. It is not a recommendation to use older toolkit releases; it is a compatibility and planning reference for developers maintaining applications across CUDA versions.
Detail
Purpose
CUDA feature support changes across toolkit, driver, and GPU architecture releases. The features archive helps developers and platform owners answer when a feature appeared, what version family introduced it, and how it relates to deployment planning.
NVIDIA context
Use this page alongside CUDA-Release-Notes and CUDA-Compatibility. The release notes tell what changed in a current CUDA release; CUDA Compatibility explains driver/toolkit compatibility; the features archive gives historical feature availability context without making old releases canonical.
Connections
- CUDA-Release-Notes - current release notes are the primary source for latest changes.
- CUDA-Compatibility - compatibility rules determine whether a feature can be used in a deployment.
- CUDA-Ada-Compatibility-Guide and CUDA-Turing-Compatibility-Guide - examples of current CUDA architecture notes that keep older GPU generations documented without making old toolkits canonical.
- NVIDIA-CUDA - top-level CUDA platform page.
- CUDA-Programming-Guide - programming model reference for many archived features.
- CUDA-Best-Practices-Guide - performance and deployment guidance.
- NVCC - compiler feature support often maps to toolkit release.
Source Excerpts
- NVIDIA’s CUDA Features Archive is a current docs page that indexes CUDA feature availability across releases for compatibility and planning.