nvidia-smi shows different CUDA versions inside and outside Docker

[FrankLeeeee]

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1. Issue or feature description

When I use Docker, nvidia-smi shows me different CUDA version that the current driver can support. It shows 11.7 on the host machine but 11.8 inside Docker even though the driver version is the same.

2. Steps to reproduce the issue

3. Information to attach (optional if deemed irrelevant)

• Some nvidia-container information: nvidia-container-cli -k -d /dev/tty info
• Kernel version from uname -a
• Any relevant kernel output lines from dmesg
• Driver information from nvidia-smi -a
• Docker version from docker version
• NVIDIA packages version from dpkg -l '*nvidia*' or rpm -qa '*nvidia*'
• NVIDIA container library version from nvidia-container-cli -V
• NVIDIA container library logs (see troubleshooting)
• Docker command, image and tag u

On the host machine:

Inside Docker:

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[elezar]

@FrankLeeeee which container are you running?

[FrankLeeeee]

@elezar
nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt:22.10-py3