diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/CuPy/CuPy-13.6.0-foss-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/CuPy/CuPy-13.6.0-foss-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
index 9033df6f3241..591cc5bb8db2 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/CuPy/CuPy-13.6.0-foss-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/c/CuPy/CuPy-13.6.0-foss-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ dependencies = [
     ('Python', '3.13.1'),
     ('SciPy-bundle', '2025.06'),
     ('CUDA', '12.8.0', '', SYSTEM),
-    ('NCCL', '2.26.6', versionsuffix),
+    ('NCCL', '2.27.7', versionsuffix),
     ('cuTENSOR', '2.3.0.6', versionsuffix, SYSTEM),
     ('cuSPARSELt', '0.8.0.4', versionsuffix, SYSTEM),  # docs say 0.7.0 or 0.7.1
 ]
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/NCCL/NCCL-2.27.7-GCCcore-14.2.0-CUDA-12.8.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/NCCL/NCCL-2.27.7-GCCcore-14.2.0-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2f3df755fb70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/n/NCCL/NCCL-2.27.7-GCCcore-14.2.0-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+name = 'NCCL'
+version = '2.27.7'
+versionsuffix = '-CUDA-%(cudaver)s'
+
+homepage = 'https://developer.nvidia.com/nccl'
+description = """The NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) implements multi-GPU and multi-node collective
+communication primitives that are performance optimized for NVIDIA GPUs."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '14.2.0'}
+
+github_account = 'NVIDIA'
+source_urls = [GITHUB_SOURCE]
+sources = ['v%(version)s-1.tar.gz']
+checksums = ['98e6262bd55932c51e7c8ffc50cc764f019e4b94a8fd6694d839ae828ec8d128']
+
+builddependencies = [('binutils', '2.42')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('CUDA', '12.8.0', '', SYSTEM),
+    ('UCX-CUDA', '1.18.0', versionsuffix),
+]
+
+# default CUDA compute capabilities to use (override via --cuda-compute-capabilities)
+cuda_compute_capabilities = ['5.0', '6.0', '7.0', '7.5', '8.0', '8.6', '9.0']
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks-7.5-gompi-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks-7.5-gompi-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
index b5a434df9b32..8627668e53eb 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks-7.5-gompi-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/o/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks/OSU-Micro-Benchmarks-7.5-gompi-2025a-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ checksums = ['1cf84ac5419456202757a757c5f9a4f5c6ecd05c65783c7976421cfd6020b3b3']
 
 dependencies = [
     ('CUDA', '12.8.0', '', SYSTEM),
-    ('NCCL', '2.26.6', versionsuffix),
+    ('NCCL', '2.27.7', versionsuffix),
     ('UCX-CUDA', '1.18.0', versionsuffix),
     ('UCC-CUDA', '1.3.0', versionsuffix),
 ]
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/UCC-CUDA/UCC-CUDA-1.3.0-GCCcore-14.2.0-CUDA-12.8.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/UCC-CUDA/UCC-CUDA-1.3.0-GCCcore-14.2.0-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
index 8a834e1dbd5b..9a7d198c7bd0 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/UCC-CUDA/UCC-CUDA-1.3.0-GCCcore-14.2.0-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/UCC-CUDA/UCC-CUDA-1.3.0-GCCcore-14.2.0-CUDA-12.8.0.eb
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ dependencies = [
     ('UCC', version),
     ('CUDA',  '12.8.0', '', SYSTEM),
     ('UCX-CUDA', '1.18.0', '-CUDA-%(cudaver)s'),
-    ('NCCL', '2.26.6', '-CUDA-%(cudaver)s'),
+    ('NCCL', '2.27.7', '-CUDA-%(cudaver)s'),
 ]
 
 preconfigopts = "./autogen.sh && "