: New conditional execution features, including ELSE graph support for IF nodes and new SWITCH nodes, allow for more complex and efficient GPU workflows.

remains the latest stable production release of NVIDIA’s parallel computing platform, having succeeded CUDA 12.5 in late 2025. There is no official announcement of CUDA 12.7 or 13.0 as of today . The 12.x branch continues to receive minor updates and driver compatibility patches.

The 12.6 release focuses on performance optimizations for next-generation hardware and improved developer tools.

: Introduced multi-GPU support for protected PCIe mode and key rotation for single GPU passthrough. Version History and Compatibility

: NVIDIA Nsight Compute and CUDA-GDB have been updated to support the 12.6 features, including reduced overhead for batch breakpoints. How to Download