The current incarnation of [1]ZLUDA continues moving along for running unmodified CUDA apps on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Released on Friday was ZLUDA 6-preview.48 with now boasting CUDA 13.1 compatibility.

The current form of ZLUDA is on delivering [2]CUDA for non-NVIDIA GPUs but not explicitly being tied to one GPU target/vendor like in the past. This multi-GPU CUDA implementation though has been taking a special focus on AI workloads but ultimately this implementation will hopefully allow most unmodified CUDA software to run gracefully on other GPU hardware.

It's been a while since having anything new to report on ZLUDA but one bit to pass along is the [3]ZLUDA 6-preview.48 release . After various adjustments to the codebase, NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 compatibility is now in place. [4]CUDA 13.1 debuted back in December.

It will be interesting to see what the ZLUDA project manages to accomplish in 2026.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/ZLUDA

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-v4-Released

[3] https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA/releases/tag/v6-preview.48

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-13.1