The official update guide recommends using the DGX Dashboard for all system updates. This has never worked for me, maybe because we modified the Spark into a multi-user workstation. In any case, I needed a CLI approach to upgrade the driver. Information on how to do this is absent from the officia…

Hi @aniculescu , Thanks for your advice! I wonder, when (due date) can we or the DGX Spark will automatically be updated to the driver version >=595.45.04, because this driver is needed for CUDA version 13.2? CUDA Toolkit 13.2 - Release Notes — Release Notes 13.2 documentation The Rel…

Hi! I made the mistake of updating the drivers to 590 and my spark is basically frozen from the moment I login. Is there any way of fixing this without a full system re-install?

Which package did you install? The meta-package nvidia-driver-590-open? Then apt purge nvidia-driver-590-open apt install nvidia-driver-580-open reboot should do the job. Otherwise the name of the package you choose to install. Try dpkg -l|grep nvidia-driver when in doubt. EDIT: When you ar…

Any showstoppers ? I might be diving into upgrading for funsies, I just prepared a full backup so…why not?

I think CUDA13.2 works just fine with the 580 drivers. Not seen much about the 595 drivers outside of this thread, and I certainly haven’t seen any WOW posts about performance increases from people running 595 drivers. For that, I’m just going to stick with the stable branch for now :-)

Unfortunately, this upgrade process is now broken :-( it appear it’s trying to installed some 610 packages. this previously worked to install 595. $ sudo apt install linux-modules-nvidia-590-open-nvidia-hwe-24.04 nvidia-prime- Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Rea…

I just upgraded one of my Gigabyte AI Atop Top. Nvidia is now 580.159.03 Cuda 13.0, the other one is 580.142 Cuda 13.0 Claimed 2GB back, now both 122G

the point here is to upgrade to 13.2 which apear to have significant performance boost on DGX spark.

Not saying I’m doing it right. but I’ve used apt-mark hold nvidia-firmware-595-595, and used the firmware picker in the UI to switch to 595-open… My Acer GB10’s are running, but I’m new enough to not know what errors to be looking for. FWIW, I’m running nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b-nvfp4 with a lo…

Upgrading the GPU Driver from 580 to 590 on DGX Spark using CLI

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aniculescu March 12, 2026, 4:27pm 2

Just be aware that driver 590 and hwe kernels are not yet supported on the Spark

Dearest CUTLASS TEAM, When the hell are you going to properly fix tcgen05 FP4 support for DGX Spark / GB10 (SM121)?

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Upgrading the GPU Driver from 580 to 590 on DGX Spark using CLI

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