[BUG]: Test: The generated ptx will not be loadable by the current driver.

[mdboom]

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Type of Bug

Runtime Error

Component

cuda.core

Describe the bug

Occasionally in testing the following error is displayed:

RuntimeWarning: The CUDA driver version is older than the backend version. The generated ptx will not be loadable by the current driver.

This can come from the cuda_core/examples/jit_lto_fractal.py test in the "Test win-64 / py3.11, 13.2.0, wheels, rtx4090 (WDDM)" configuration.

Full log

How to Reproduce

Happens occasionally in CI.

I think the root cause is that the CI runner is in an incorrect state -- perhaps there is a race condition between installing the driver and the runtime that we could fix by determining the version once and installing the same version of both.

I think it is better to fix that root cause than to make the test skippable.

Expected behavior

All tests should pass.

Operating System

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nvidia-smi output

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