Why is nvidia-smi failing to detect Nvidia RTX 6000 Pro GPU card on Ubuntu Q&A

Q: Why is nvidia-smi failing to detect Nvidia RTX 6000 Pro GPU card on Ubuntu?

A: The Nvidia driver doesn’t support the Nvidia RTX 6000 Pro GPU card.

You can resolve this issue by using either of the following two methods.

1. Install the Nvidia VGA driver from Nvidia driver home.

2. Install CUDA 13.0 or later.