New Release 9.0.197. CUDA driver update to support CUDA Toolkit 9.0; Recommended CUDA version(s): CUDA 9.0; Supported MAC OS X. 10.12.x; An alternative method to download the latest CUDA driver is within Mac OS environment. New in Release 2.2: Support with MAC OS 10.5.7; Support with both Quadro FX 4800 for MAC and GeForce GTX 285.
NVIDIA® CUDA Toolkit 11.1 Update 1 no longer supports development or running applications on macOS. While there are no tools which use macOS as a target environment, NVIDIA is making macOS host versions of these tools that you can launch profiling and debugging sessions on supported target platforms.
You may download all these tools here. Note that the Nsight tools provide the ability to download these macOS host versions on their respective product pages.
Please visit each tool's overview page for more information about the tool and its supported target platforms.
The macOS host tools provided are:
- Nsight Systems - a system profiler and timeline trace tool supporting Pascal and newer GPUs
- Nsight Compute - a CUDA kernel profiler supporting Volta and new GPUs
- Visual Profiler - a CUDA kernel and system profiler and timeline trace tool supporting older GPUs (see installation instructions, below)
- cuda-gdb - a GPU and CPU CUDA application debugger (see installation instructions, below)

Nvidia Cuda Driver Mac
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Instructions for installing cuda-gdb on the macOS
- This tar archive holds the distribution of the CUDA 11.1 Update 1 cuda-gdb cuda-gdb debugger front-end for macOS.
Native macOS debugging is not supported in this release. Remote debugging from a macOS host to other CUDA enabled targets, however, is supported.
Supported Mac platforms: macOS 10.13
- To install:
- Create an installation directory
INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/cuda-gdb-darwin-11.1
mkdir $INSTALL_DIR
cd $INSTALL_DIR
- Download the cuda-gdb-darwin-11.1.105.tar.gz tar archive into
$INSTALL_DIR
above - Unpack the tar archive
tar fxvz cuda-gdb-darwin-11.1.105.tar.gz
- Add the bin directory to your path
PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
- Run cuda-gdb --version to confirm you're picking up the correct binaries
cuda-gdb --version
- Download version: 8u144-b01 (Zulu: 8.23.0.3) .dmg.zip.tar.gz
- Download version: Zulu 8.23.0.3 (build 1.8.0_144-b01 .zip
- Model identifier should be Mac Pro 5,1 (2010), Mac Pro 4,1 (2009) or Mac Pro 3,1 (2008)
- Mac OS X v10.10.3 (14D131)
You should see the following output:
- NVIDIA (R) CUDA Debugger
11.1 release
Portions Copyright (C) 2007-2020 NVIDIA Corporation
GNU gdb (GDB) 8.3.1
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
- https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/profiler-users-guide/index.html#visual
Notes about JRE Requirements when using Visual Profiler on the macOS
- OpenJDK provides an open-source (and standards compliant) implementation of a Java compliant JVM.
Binaries are provided by various vendors such as Oracle, Azul Systems (Zulu), Amazon, Red Hat, IBM, etc.
- Visual Profiler needs to use an older version of Java, specifically JRE update 151, to work correctly.
This is currently not offered by Oracle JDK but is provided by Azul Systems (Zulu).
- The Bazel Build project also uses the Zulu builds of OpenJDK.
- Download JDK 8.0.144 to get JRE update 151:
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MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for Driver Release 346.01.02f01
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To download and install the drivers, follow the steps below:
STEP 1: Make sure your Mac OS X software version is v10.10.3 (14D131). It is important that you check this first before you install the 346.01.02f01 Driver. Click on the Apple icon (upper left corner of the screen) and select About This Mac. Click the More Info button to see the exact build version number (14D131) in the Software field.
STEP 2: If your OS X software version has not been updated, in the About This Mac window, click on the Software Update button
STEP 3: Continue to install software updates until your system OS is reported to be v10.10.3 (14D131)
STEP 4: Review the NVIDIA Software License. Check terms and conditions checkbox to allow driver download.
You will need to accept this license prior to downloading any files.
STEP 5: Download the Driver File
Download - WebDriver-346.01.02f01.pkg
STEP 6: Install
After downloading the driver package, it should automatically launch the installer. If it does not, double-click on the driver package from your download target location. It will guide you through the installation process. Click Continue after you read the License Agreement and then click Agree
STEP 7: Click Install on the Standard Installer screen. You will be required to enter an Administrator password to continue
STEP 8: Click Continue Installation on the Warning screen: The Warning screen lets you know that you will need to restart your system once the installation process is complete.
STEP 9: Click Restart on the Installation Completed Successfully screen.
