diff --git a/devel/py-pynvml/Makefile b/devel/py-pynvml/Makefile
index 1cbe1ed72049..1cd02ac7bf21 100644
--- a/devel/py-pynvml/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-pynvml/Makefile
@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	pynvml
-PORTVERSION=	11.5.0
+PORTVERSION=	12.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python Bindings for the NVIDIA Management Library
 WWW=		https://github.com/gpuopenanalytics/pynvml
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+# tests as of 12.0.0: 2 passed, 2 errors in 24.70s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-pynvml/distinfo b/devel/py-pynvml/distinfo
index 7a19f6fb04a0..5ce0be6a420c 100644
--- a/devel/py-pynvml/distinfo
+++ b/devel/py-pynvml/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1714179661
-SHA256 (pynvml-11.5.0.tar.gz) = d027b21b95b1088b9fc278117f9f61b7c67f8e33a787e9f83f735f0f71ac32d0
-SIZE (pynvml-11.5.0.tar.gz) = 70250
+TIMESTAMP = 1739137203
+SHA256 (pynvml-12.0.0.tar.gz) = 299ce2451a6a17e6822d6faee750103e25b415f06f59abb8db65d30f794166f5
+SIZE (pynvml-12.0.0.tar.gz) = 33636