Hello team, I’m trying to run mojo on gpu and I get this puzzling error: E Exception: At oss/modular/mojo/stdlib/std/gpu/host/device_context.mojo:3316:17: MAX doesn’t support your current NVIDIA GPU driver. MAX requires a minimum driver version of 580 and CUDA version 13.0. Your driver versio…

[image] gabrieldemarmiesse: I use only Mojo (I enqueue kernels directly), not Max, so why MAX is complaining? even the stacktrace shows the error comes from the mojo stdlib, not MAX. This is a problem with the error message. It assumes that it is being used in the MAX context, but that is not…

I’ve filed [BUG] MAX mentioned in error message for Mojo driver version error · Issue #6519 · modular/modular · GitHub to track the error message problem.

Thanks @joshpeterson , after playing around with it, I managed to make it work. If I understand correctly it can be solved by installing a conda or a pip package + an environment variable. To increase the developer experience, this should be documented, either in the error message or in the docs (a…

That is a great point! I’ll see if we can get this documented and have the error message point to that documentation. This is not immediately obvious, especially to someone new to Mojo.

Definitly. Another idea I have is that we could ship the ptxas of Mojo into its own wheel, e.g. “mojo-ptxas” and always pick up the ptxas of the wheel “mojo-ptxas” by default (we can leave the env variable as backup), then if we get an error from the driver, we can easily say “please set mojo-ptxas…

@ahajha What do you think about this suggestion? I don’t know how the Python packaging works.

We discussed that option originally. I think the idea at the time was that we specifically wanted to support CUDA 13+, and allow lower versions to be used but not officially support them. I did propose having these be separate packages but that could have been seen as “supporting” multiple versions. …

If the only “supported” driver version is one that’s only 6 months old, that’s pretty hardcore I must say from a user’s perspective. Also if we don’t “support” older version, does that mean that in the docs, we’ll say something like “you can use MODULAR_NVPTX_COMPILER_PATH but it’s half supported, t…

Thanks @ahajha , I did not realize we had already considered that. So it may be an option in the future. At the moment though I think the environment variable fallback in the best option we can provide @gabrieldemarmiesse . But let’s keep an eye on this as an area of improvement. @gabrieldemarmiesse …

[Feature Request] Improve the flexibility of Mojo regarding nvidia driver version opened 07:38PM - 11 May 26 UTC (UTC) [image] gabrieldemarmiesse enh…

Max doesn't support your current Nvidia GPU driver

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gabrieldemarmiesse (Gabriel de Marmiesse) May 11, 2026, 5:42pm 2

Answering port of my own questions: I found Support for older NVIDIA GPUs and drivers in Mojo and MAX . I’ll try to go down this route.

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