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Old way (verbose, error-prone):

find_package(CUDA REQUIRED) cuda_add_executable(myapp main.cu) New way (CUDA 13+): cuda release news

Instead of writing raw PTX or using third-party wrappers, you can now write: Old way (verbose

If you’re building HPC simulations, training LLMs, or optimizing edge inference, here’s what changed, what broke (sorry, legacy Kepler devs), and what to benchmark first. The biggest quality-of-life shift: cuda.compile and cuda.execute are now built into the core driver API. or optimizing edge inference

April 14, 2026 Reading time: 4 min

NVIDIA just cut the official release of – and while hardware gets the headlines (looking at you, next-gen Rubin GPUs), this software update might be the real performance unlock for the next 18 months.