NVIDIA Data Center GPU Driver version

470.103.01 (Linux) / 472.98 (Windows)

Release Notes

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 Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Version Highlights.............................................................................................. 1
1.1.  Software Versions..................................................................................................................... 1
1.2.  New Features............................................................................................................................ 2
1.3.  Fixed Issues...............................................................................................................................3
1.4.  Known Issues............................................................................................................................ 3
Chapter 2. Virtualization.......................................................................................................5
Chapter 3. Hardware and Software Support....................................................................... 7

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This section provides highlights of the NVIDIA Data Center GPU R470 Driver (version
470.103.01 Linux and 472.98 Windows).
For changes related to the 470 release of the NVIDIA display driver, review the file
"NVIDIA_Changelog" available in the .run installer packages.

‣ Linux driver release date: 1/31/2022

‣ Windows driver release date: 1/31/2022

1.1.  Software Versions

For this release, the software versions are listed below.

‣ CUDA Toolkit 11: 11.4

Note that starting with CUDA 11, individual components of the toolkit are versioned
independently. For a full list of the individual versioned components (e.g. nvcc, CUDA
libraries etc.), see the CUDA Toolkit Release Notes
‣ NVIDIA Data Center GPU Driver: 470.103.01 (Linux) / 472.98 (Windows)
‣ Fabric Manager: 470.103.01 (Use nv-fabricmanager -v)

‣ GPU VBIOS:
‣ 92.00.19.00.01 (NVIDIA A100 SKU200 with heatsink for HGX A100 8-way and 4-way)
‣ 92.00.19.00.02 (NVIDIA A100 SKU202 w/o heatsink for HGX A100 4-way)
‣ NVSwitch VBIOS: 92.10.14.00.01
‣ NVFlash: 5.641
Due to a revision lock between the VBIOS and driver, VBIOS versions >= 92.00.18.00.00 must
use corresponding drivers >= 450.36.01. Older VBIOS versions will work with newer drivers.
For more information on getting started with the NVIDIA Fabric Manager on NVSwitch-based
systems (for example, HGX A100), refer to the Fabric Manager User Guide.

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1.2.  New Features

General
‣ Added support for the following NVIDIA GPU products:
‣ NVIDIA A16
‣ NVIDIA A100 80 GB PCIe
‣ Enabled new MIG profiles for the NVIDIA A30 where each of the 4 partitions has double the
memory, 6GB up from 3GB per partition slice. See the MIG Device Names section of the
NVIDIA MIG User Guide.
‣ This release includes support for OpenCL 3.0
Maintains backward compatibility with OpenCL 1.2. NVIDIA OpenCL 3.0 continues to
support existing OpenCL 1.2 functionality as well as Khronos and vendor extensions that
are already supported with NVIDIA OpenCL 1.2 drivers. The following new features beyond
existing NVIDIA OpenCL 1.2 features are supported by NVIDIA OpenCL 3.0

‣ RGBA vector component naming in OpenCL C kernels

‣ pragma_unroll hint
‣ opencl_3d_image_writes
‣ clCreate*WithProperties APIs which can be used as replacement for existing
clCreateBuffer/Image APIs.
‣ clSetContextDestructorCallback
‣ clCloneKernel from OpenCL 2.1
‣ clEnqueueSVMMigrateMem from OpenCL 2.1
‣ Incorporates the experimental 2.0 Device side enqueue
The current implementation is limited to 64-bit platforms only, Allows kernels to be
enqueued with global_work_size larger than the compute capability of the NVIDIA
GPU. The current implementation supports only combinations of global_work_size and
local_work_size that are within the compute capability of the NVIDIA GPU.
The maximum supported CUDA grid and block size of NVIDIA GPUs is available at
http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index.html#compute-
capabilities. For a given grid dimension, the global_work_size can be determined by
CUDA grid size x CUDA block size.
For executing kernels (whether from the host or the device), OpenCL 3.0 supports
non-uniform ND-ranges where global_work_size does not need to be divisible by the

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local_work_size. This capability is not yet supported in the NVIDIA driver, and therefore
not supported for device side kernel enqueues.

Note: Other OpenCL 2.X entry-points which are now optional and are not supported
in NVIDIA OpenCL 3.0 will behave as described at https://www.khronos.org/
registry/OpenCL/specs/3.0-unified/html/OpenCL_API.html#opencl-3.0-backwards-
compatibility

1.3.  Fixed Issues

‣ Security updates: See Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver - February 2022, which is
posted shortly after the release date of this driver and will be listed on the NVIDIA Product
Security page.

1.4.  Known Issues

General
‣ nvidia-release-upgrade may report that not all updates have been installed and exit.

When running the nvidia-release-upgrade command on DGX systems running DGX

OS 4.99.x, it may exit and tell users: "Please install all available updates for your release
before upgrading" even though all upgrades have been installed.
Users who see this can run the following command:
sudo apt install -y nvidia-fabricmanager-450/bionic-updates --allow-downgrades

After running this, proceed with the regular upgrade steps:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y nvidia-release-upgrade
sudo nvidia-release-upgrade
‣ By default, Fabric Manager runs as a systemd service. If using DAEMONIZE=0 in the Fabric
Manager configuration file, then the following steps may be required.
1. Disable FM service from auto starting. (systemctl disable nvidia-
fabricmanager)
2. Once the system is booted, manually start FM process. (/usr/bin/nv-fabricmanager
-c /usr/share/nvidia/nvswitch/fabricmanager.cfg). Note, since the process
is not a daemon, the SSH/Shell prompt will not be returned (use another SSH shell for
other activities or run FM as a background task).
‣ On NVSwitch systems with Windows Server 2019 in shared NVSwitch virtualization mode,
the host may hang or crash when a GPU is disabled in the guest VM. This issue is under
investigation.

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GPU Performance Counters

The use of developer tools from NVIDIA that access various performance counters
requires administrator privileges. See this note for more details. For example, reading
NVLink utilization metrics from nvidia-smi (nvidia-smi nvlink -g 0) would require
administrator privileges.

NoScanout Mode
NoScanout mode is no longer supported on NVIDIA Data Center GPU products. If NoScanout
mode was previously used, then the following line in the “screen” section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
should be removed to ensure that X server starts on data center products:
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "None"

NVIDIA Data Center GPU products now support one display of up to 4K resolution.

Unified Memory Support

Some Unified Memory APIs (for example, CPU page faults) are not supported on Windows in
this version of the driver. Review the CUDA Programming Guide on the system requirements
for Unified Memory
CUDA and unified memory is not supported when used with Linux power management states
S3/S4.

IMPU FRU for Volta GPUs

The driver does not support the IPMI FRU multi-record information structure for NVLink. See
the Design Guide for Tesla P100 and Tesla V100-SXM2 for more information.

OpenCL 3.0 Known Issues

‣ Device-Side-Enqueue related queries may return 0 values, although corresponding built-
ins can be safely used by kernel. This is in accordance with conformance requirements
described at https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/specs/3.0-unified/html/
OpenCL_API.html#opencl-3.0-backwardscompatibility
‣ Shared virtual memory - the current implementation of shared virtual memory is limited to
64-bit platforms only.

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To make use of GPU passthrough with virtual machines running Windows and Linux, the
hardware platform must support the following features:

‣ A CPU with hardware-assisted instruction set virtualization: Intel VT-x or AMD-V.

‣ Platform support for I/O DMA remapping.
‣ On Intel platforms the DMA remapper technology is called Intel VT-d.
‣ On AMD platforms it is called AMD IOMMU.

Support for these features varies by processor family, product, and system, and should be
verified at the manufacturer's website.

Supported Hypervisors
The following hypervisors are supported:

Hypervisor Notes
Citrix XenServer Version 6.0 and later
VMware vSphere (ESX / ESXi) Version 5.1 and later.
Red Hat KVM Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with KVM
Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V
Generation 2

Tesla products now support one display of up to 4K resolution.

Supported Graphics Cards

The following GPUs are supported for device passthrough:

GPU Family Boards Supported

NVIDIA Ampere GPU Architecture NVIDIA A100, A40, A30, A16, A10
Turing NVIDIA T4
Volta NVIDIA V100
Pascal Tesla: P100, P40, P4

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GPU Family Boards Supported

Maxwell Tesla: M60, M40, M6, M4

Kepler Tesla: K520, K80

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Support

Support for these features varies by processor family, product, and system, and should be
verified at the manufacturer's website.

Supported Operating Systems for NVIDIA Data Center GPUs

The Release 470 driver is supported on the following operating systems:

‣ Windows x86_64 operating systems:

‣ Microsoft Windows® Server 2022
‣ Microsoft Windows® Server 2019
‣ Microsoft Windows® Server 2016
‣ Microsoft Windows® 11
‣ Microsoft Windows® 10
‣ The table below summarizes the supported Linux 64-bit distributions. For a complete list
of distributions, kernel versions supported, see the CUDA Linux System Requirements
documentation.

Distribution x86_64 POWER Arm64 Server

OpenSUSE Leap 15.x Yes No No
(where y <= 3)
Red Hat Enterprise Yes Yes Yes
Linux / CentOS 8.y
(where y <= 5)
Red Hat Enterprise Yes No No
Linux / CentOS 7.y
(where y <= 9)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Yes No Yes (see note)
Server 15.x (where y <=
3)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Yes No Yes

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Distribution x86_64 POWER Arm64 Server

Ubuntu 18.04.z LTS Yes No No
(where z <= 6)

Note that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15.3 is provided as a preview for Arm64
server since there are known issues when running some CUDA applications related to
dependencies on glibc 2.27.

Supported Operating Systems and CPU Configurations for HGX A100

The Release 470 driver is validated with HGX A100 on the following operating systems and CPU
configurations:

‣ Linux 64-bit distributions:

‣ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
‣ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
‣ CentOS Linux 8.5 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
‣ CentOS Linux 7.9 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
‣ Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)
‣ SUSE SLES 15.3 (in 4/8/16-GPU configurations)

‣ CPU Configurations:
‣ AMD Rome in PCIe Gen4 mode
‣ Intel Skylake/Cascade Lake (4-socket) in PCIe Gen3 mode

Supported Virtualization Configurations

The Release 470 driver is validated with HGX A100 on the following configurations:

‣ Passthrough (full visibility of GPUs and NVSwitches to guest VMs):

‣ 8-GPU configurations with Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
‣ Shared NVSwitch (guest VMs only have visibility of GPUs and full NVLink bandwidth
between GPUs in the same guest VM):

‣ 16-GPU configurations with Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

‣ 1/2/4/8-GPU configurations with Windows x86_64 operating systems:
‣ Microsoft Windows® Server 2019
‣ Microsoft Windows® Server 2016
‣ Microsoft Windows® 10

API Support
This release supports the following APIs:

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‣ NVIDIA® CUDA® 11.4 for NVIDIA® KeplerTM, MaxwellTM, PascalTM, VoltaTM, TuringTM and
NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs
‣ OpenGL® 4.6
‣ Vulkan® 1.2
‣ DirectX 11
‣ DirectX 12 (Windows 10)
‣ Open Computing Language (OpenCLTM software) 3.0
Note that for using graphics APIs on Windows (i.e. OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX 11 and DirectX 12)
or any WDDM 2.0+ based functionality on Data Center GPUs, vGPU is required. See the vGPU
documentation for more information.

Supported NVIDIA Data Center GPUs

The NVIDIA Data Center GPU driver package is designed for systems that have one or
more Data Center GPU products installed. This release of the driver supports CUDA C/C++
applications and libraries that rely on the CUDA C Runtime and/or CUDA Driver API.

ATTENTION: Release 470 will be the last driver branch to support Data Center GPUs based
on the Kepler architecture. This includes discontinued support for the following compute
capabilities:

‣ sm_30 (Kepler)
‣ sm_32 (Kepler)
‣ sm_35 (Kepler)
‣ sm_37 (Kepler)

For more information on GPU products and compute capability, see https://
developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus.

NVIDIA Server Platforms

Product Architecture
NVIDIA HGX A100 A100 and NVSwitch
NVIDIA HGX-2 V100 and NVSwitch

RTX-Series / T-Series Products

Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA RTX A6000 NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA RTX A5000 NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA RTX A4000 NVIDIA Ampere
Quadro RTX 8000 Turing

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RTX-Series / T-Series Products

Product GPU Architecture
Quadro RTX 6000 Turing
NVIDIA T1000 Turing
NVIDIA T600 Turing
NVIDIA T400 Turing

Data Center A-Series Products

Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA A100 NVIDIA Ampere

NVIDIA A100 80 GB PCIe

NVIDIA A40 NVIDIA Ampere

NVIDIA A30 NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A16 NVIDIA Ampere
NVIDIA A10 NVIDIA Ampere

Data Center T-Series Products

Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA T4 Turing

Data Center V-Series Products

Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA V100 Volta

Data Center P-Series Products

Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA Tesla P100 Pascal
NVIDIA Tesla P40 Pascal
NVIDIA Tesla P4 Pascal

Data Center K-Series Products

Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA Tesla K520 Kepler
NVIDIA Tesla K80 Kepler

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Data Center M-Class Products

Product GPU Architecture
NVIDIA Tesla M60 Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M40 Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M6 Maxwell
NVIDIA Tesla M4 Maxwell

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