NVIDIA RTX Enterprise driver for RTX A1000, RTX Ada and RTX PRO: Windows 10, 11 and Linux

Which NVIDIA RTX driver the eleven cards use

The driver for an NVIDIA RTX A1000, an RTX A400, an RTX 2000 Ada, an RTX 4500 Ada or an RTX PRO 2000 or 4000 Blackwell is one and the same package: the NVIDIA RTX Enterprise Production Branch driver for Windows 10 and Windows 11, and NVIDIA's Linux driver of the same branch. As of 10 November 2026 the newest Windows release is 621.14 of 4 November 2026 in branch R620; 597.30 (R595) and 582.99 (R580) are maintained beside it. One of the eleven cards on this page falls outside this rule, the passive RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition, which takes the data-centre driver from R595 upwards.

This guide is for administrators who build a Windows or Linux image for a fleet of workstations. The driver facts come from NVIDIA's release notes, driver pages and lifecycle tables as read on 10 November 2026; read the notes of the exact version before a rollout. Data-centre branches, CUDA compatibility and the kernel module flavours are covered in our guide to NVIDIA driver branches and CUDA versions.

Current driver versions 621.14, 597.30 and 582.99

NVIDIA's RTX Enterprise and Quadro driver branch history for Windows, its Data Center GPU Driver release notes 620.70.06, 595.112.07 and 580.196.07, and its table "Supported Drivers and CUDA Toolkit Versions" of 4 November 2026, as read on 10 November 2026. Branch types and end dates are those of the data-centre table.

NVIDIA publishes end dates in its data-centre driver documentation only; for the Windows RTX Enterprise branches we found none on the pages we read. Its driver lifecycle page of 9 September 2026 gives one year for a Production Branch and three years for a Long Term Support Branch, and marks both as general guidance only.

The Windows documents use other words for the same branches. The release notes of 621.14 call Release 620 the latest Production Branch release of the NVIDIA RTX Enterprise Driver. For R595 the documents differ: NVIDIA's data-centre table calls R595 a Production Branch (to March 2027); the Windows release notes of 597.30 call Release 595 a New Feature Branch. When a policy or a tender names a branch type, name the document with it.

One driver under three names

NVIDIA's pages name this driver in three ways. The download result is titled "NVIDIA RTX Driver Release 620" with the version line "R620 U1 (621.14)", the heading on the same page reads "NVIDIA RTX Enterprise Production Branch Driver", and the release notes are the "NVIDIA RTX Enterprise Driver Release 620, Version 621.14 Release Notes".

NVIDIA's driver page describes the Production Branch driver as a rebrand of the Quadro Optimal Driver for Enterprise with the same ISV certification, long life-cycle support and regular security updates. The page of 621.14 adds that Production Branch drivers also contain the features of the NVIDIA Studio drivers of the same version number. By our reading, a Studio driver version that a software maker requires can therefore be checked against the RTX Enterprise version number.

Driver by card for RTX A1000 and A400, RTX Ada and RTX PRO Blackwell

NVIDIA RTX Enterprise release notes 621.14 (4 November 2026), 597.30 and 582.99 (21 October 2026); Data Center GPU Driver release notes of the same three branches; NVIDIA's "CUDA GPU Compute Capability" page (16 October 2026). Each card name links to its spec page.

The ten workstation cards are in the Windows release notes and the Linux product lists of all three branches. In those documents the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Workstation Edition appears as "NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell", without its edition, while the download selector writes the full name. The lists also hold laptop and embedded GPUs called RTX A1000, RTX 2000 Ada and RTX 5000 Ada, and laptop GPUs of the RTX PRO 2000, 4000 and 5000 Blackwell Generation. These are other parts; the entry without "Laptop GPU" or "Embedded GPU" is the desktop card.

The RTX 2000 Ada and the RTX 2000E Ada carry the same PCI device ID, 28B0, in NVIDIA's Linux product list and differ only in the subsystem ID, 1870 and 1871. An inventory script that reads the device ID alone cannot tell the 70 W dual-slot card from the 50 W single-slot one.

NVIDIA's download record has one gap, for the RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell with 48 GB. The download pages of 597.30 and 582.99 do not name this card, and a search by product returns 621.14 as the only current driver, although the release notes of both versions and the Linux lists of both branches contain "NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell". We read this as a gap in the download record and no sign of missing support.

The last column is the compute capability from NVIDIA's CUDA page of 16 October 2026. The page gives 12.0 for the five Blackwell cards and 8.9 for the RTX 5000, 4500 and 2000 Ada. It does not list the RTX 2000E Ada, the RTX A1000 or the RTX A400, so we print no figure for these three. The "Compute APIs" row of a datasheet, for example CUDA 12.8 on the Blackwell workstation cards and 11.6 on the RTX A1000 and RTX A400, is the version at the card's launch and sets no ceiling: CUDA 13.5 pairs with R620, 13.2 with R595 and 13.0 with R580, and CUDA 13.x applications need a driver of branch 580 or newer.

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Windows 10 and Windows 11

The current driver covers both systems. The release notes of 621.14 list Windows 11 and Windows 10 in 64-bit from version 22H2 as tested, and the download pages of 621.14, 597.30 and 582.99 all give Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11. NVIDIA's data-centre notes for the same driver versions name the builds: Windows 11 from 22H2 to 25H2 and Windows 10 22H2.

Two NVIDIA statements say how long Windows 10 stays covered. The release notes of 621.14 state that Release 620 will be the last branch to support Windows 10. NVIDIA's support article 5707, updated 27 August 2025, says that after October 2025 Windows 10 driver support moves to a quarterly security update that delivers critical bug fixes. Windows 10 is therefore still a supported system on R620, R595 and R580, and its support ends with whichever branch follows R620. NVIDIA gives no end date for Windows 10 within Release 620. Versions older than 22H2 dropped out earlier: the notes of 597.30 and 582.99 name branch 550 as the last professional Windows driver for version 21H2 and earlier.

Windows Server is not mentioned in the RTX Enterprise release notes of 621.14; NVIDIA's data-centre driver notes for the same release name Windows Server 2025 and 2022. The driver model on Windows is covered in our guide to WDDM, TCC and MCDM, Linux tools on a Windows workstation in CUDA on WSL2.

Linux driver for the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell and the other cards

On Linux the three branches stand at 620.70.06, 595.112.07 and 580.196.07. The product lists that NVIDIA publishes with its kernel module source, and the hardware lists of the data-centre release notes, contain all ten workstation cards in each of the three.

The word "latest" needs a qualifier on Linux. NVIDIA's own pointer file latest.txt still named 595.104.02 when we read it on 10 November 2026, although 595.112.07 and 620.70.06 were already in the archive and in the driver search. A script that follows the pointer installs neither, so write the branch and the version into the deployment.

The current notes name these distributions, among others: Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04 LTS, RHEL and Rocky Linux 10.x, 9.y and 8.y, SLES 16 and 15 SP7, and Debian 13 and 12. The lists in the cards' quick start guides date from launch and are not current.

For a frozen image the question is whether its driver already knows the card. The release notes we read contain no sentence that announces support for a card. The values below are therefore our reading of NVIDIA's product lists, the first version in each branch whose list contains the card, and no NVIDIA statement.

our reading of the product lists in NVIDIA's open-gpu-kernel-modules releases and of NVIDIA's driver search, 10 November 2026. The search returns at most 30 entries, so an older Windows release for the RTX PRO 4500 Workstation Edition and the RTX PRO 4000 cannot be excluded. First listings were traced for the Blackwell cards only.

RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition needs R595 or R620

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is a passive data-centre card and follows the data-centre driver. NVIDIA's product brief of 20 April 2026 asks for R595 or later on Linux and on Windows. The card is in the data-centre release notes and the Linux product lists of R595, from 595.58.03 on by our reading, and of R620. In R580 a single release, 580.142, lists it; the releases after it, 580.196.07 included, do not. Do not plan this card on R580.

The Windows RTX Enterprise release notes of 621.14, 597.30 and 582.99 do not contain the Server Edition, and the download selector files it under the product type Data Center. The brief names Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 as supported systems; a Windows driver for this card outside vGPU software is something we could not verify in NVIDIA's download record, so confirm it before the order. For Linux the notes of 620.70.06 name Ubuntu 24.04, RHEL 9.8 and SLES 15.7 for this card.

NVIDIA's vGPU software follows the same branches: as of November 2026 its index lists vGPU 21.0 on R620, 20.3 on R595 and 19.7 on R580. The vGPU list names the Server Edition from release 20.0; vGPU 19 does not contain it. Our overview of MIG and vGPU on the RTX PRO and RTX Ada cards has the table per card, and the two cards called RTX PRO 4500 are set side by side in RTX PRO 4500 or RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition.

Which branch for a fleet of workstations

NVIDIA's documents leave three choices, and the application decides between them more often than the card does.

• R620 pairs with CUDA 13.5, is the last branch with Windows 10 and has the latest end date in the data-centre table, September 2029. Its first release dates from 4 November 2026, so test it with your applications before it goes into an image.
• R580 is the branch named in the certification rows we read. In Dassault's SOLIDWORKS 2026 certification list, read 10 November 2026, the rows for Blackwell towers gave "R580 U7 Version 582.16" and the rows for Ada and RTX A cards "R580 U5 Version 581.80" as the minimum supported version. A row certifies one computer model with one card and one driver, so read the row for your workstation model. R580 is also the last branch with RTX Desktop Manager, which the Ada and RTX A datasheets still name: the release notes of 621.14 state that Release 580 was the last branch to support it. The same notes name Release 580 as the last branch for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, which counts where older cards share the image. Multi-display desks are the subject of our article on four monitors on the RTX A400 and A1000.
• R595 pairs with CUDA 13.2 and ends first, in March 2027 by the data-centre table. NVIDIA's Omniverse documentation of 9 November 2026 lists validated drivers up to R595 (595.97 on Windows).

Software makers set floors of their own. Blender's Cycles renderer with OptiX needs a driver version of at least 575, ArcGIS Pro 3.7 asks for 551.61 or later for deep learning, and the readme of DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.2 of 4 November 2026 names NVIDIA Studio driver 581.57 or newer on Windows and 580.119.02 or newer on Linux. The current Windows and Linux releases of all three branches lie above these floors. For a CAD seat the reference remains the software maker's own list, as our guide to NVIDIA cards for SOLIDWORKS explains. A fleet with several card types does not need several drivers, since release 621.14 lists all ten workstation cards. How the driver is installed unattended across a fleet of office PCs is shown in RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell deployment in office PCs.

The cards this guide covers

All eleven cards of this guide are available to order from us, as cards and in workstations and servers built to order; the cards above 48 GB are on our GPU page. The buy pages by generation:

• RTX PRO Blackwell: RTX PRO 2000, RTX PRO 4000, RTX PRO 4500 Workstation Edition, RTX PRO 4500 Server Edition and RTX PRO 5000 with 48 GB
• RTX Ada Generation: RTX 2000 Ada, RTX 2000E Ada, RTX 4500 Ada and RTX 5000 Ada
• RTX A cards of 2024: RTX A400 and RTX A1000

The three generations are set out in our guide to NVIDIA RTX workstation GPUs from 4 to 48 GB, larger quantities for a rollout in NVIDIA RTX cards in volume for system builders. If a new image and new cards arrive together, name the cards and the driver branch your fleet runs, and our written quote states price, lead time and warranty terms for each card.

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