NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Enhances GPU Development with Tile Programming in C++, Compiler Autotuning, and Python Updates

Originally published at: NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Enhances GPU Development with Tile Programming in C++, Compiler Autotuning, and Python Updates | NVIDIA Technical Blog

NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 brings new capabilities and performance optimizations to developers across the CUDA ecosystem. The launch of NVIDIA CUDA Tile programming in C++, enables high-level, tile-based kernel development that automatically manages complex low-level GPU details for optimal performance and portability. Additionally, CUDA Tile programming is now supported on Compute Capability 9.0 (NVIDIA Hopper) GPUs…

Which version of the Windows NVIDIA driver will this be compatible with? Running nvidia-smi with the current latest driver version (596.59 released on 27 May 2026) reports CUDA 13.2 rather than CUDA 13.3; see output below:

nvidia-smi
Thu May 28 10:08:34 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 596.59                 Driver Version: 596.59         CUDA Version: 13.2     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                  Driver-Model | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA RTX A4000             WDDM  |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| 41%   42C    P8              6W /  140W |       0MiB /  16376MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   1  NVIDIA RTX A400              WDDM  |   00000000:02:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 30%   39C    P8            N/A  /   50W |       0MiB /   4094MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   2  NVIDIA RTX A400              WDDM  |   00000000:03:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| 30%   37C    P8            N/A  /   50W |       0MiB /   4094MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+