I have recently installed cuda 6.0 with a view of performance increment in windows 7 . the toolkit installer has display driver installer along with it and it installed display driver version named as 9.18.13.4062 . is this version mean 340.62???
Also it is mentioned that driver version 340.29 with cuda increases performance according to this link
does 340.xx series have the same performance ?? I couldnot get the version 340.29 driver. where can i download it from???
340.62 is the Windows GPU driver that ships with the CUDA 6.5 (windows) installer.
340.29 is the Linux GPU driver that ships with the CUDA 6.5 (linux) installer.
The link you have provided is referring to linux. 340.62 and 340.29 should be comparable, as much as "comparable" can be stated about a windows platform vs. a linux platform
Regarding the performance in the article linked, CUDA 6.5 (i.e. not just the driver) has significant performance increases in various libraries and in the compiler as well.
To get an idea of these performance increases, there is a webinar you can attend tomorrow (wednesday, September 17th) by following the link here.
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When downloading NVIDIA GPU drivers, I've also been asked for some time which CUDA toolkit I prefer.
Now, what does this choice imply when downloading a driver?
As far as I know, different CUDA toolkits have different minimum drivers supporting them (also stated in the release notes), but what does this choice at the driver download page imply?
Generally speaking, there is a backwards compatibility strategy for drivers with respect to CUDA toolkits. For example, the latest driver should work with any older CUDA toolkit. An older driver may not work with a newer CUDA toolkit.
That is a general statement of compatibility. You can find it expressed here (e.g. table 1) also.
However, each CUDA toolkit ships with a particular driver branch. For example CUDA 10.1 ships with a 418.xx driver branch (this corresponds to the version of the GPU driver that is bundled with the CUDA toolkit installer).
So even though a 430.xx driver is compatible with and should work with CUDA 10.1, that isn't actually the driver branch that ships with CUDA 10.1
The dropdown allows you to select a driver that is in the same branch as the driver that particular CUDA toolkit was shipped with and has the highest test coverage with.
After installed cuda9.2 by run file, tried to run nvidia-smi, but it said no connection to nvidia gpu driver. Tried several ways to install nvidia gpu driver 390, all not successful.
Also tried using start script to create instance with cuda9.0, but cuda not installed. Manual install cuda9.0 also failed.
They said that GCP can only support gpu driver up to 384. Is the version updated? What is the best way to install nvidia driver and cuda. Which latest cuda version is supported? Thanks.
According to this article in the GCP documentation, the latest version supported is “NVIDIA 384.111 driver or greater” in Linux instances.
Your questions are answered in this article. The article has all the installation steps on how to install cuda and Nvidia drivers.
While trying to install CUDA 5.5 on my windows 8.1 laptop NVidia Geforce GT 740M, I got the following error: I have also installed VS 2012 professional.
the graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware. you may continue installation but you will not be able to run CUDA applications.
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Install the latest driver for your GPU from nvidia.com. Then install CUDA 6 (or CUDA 5.5), while deselecting the option to install the driver.
The driver that was included as part of the CUDA 5.5 install package is too old for your GPU.
My run time system gives an error "CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version" when I try to run CUDA programs on Mac OS X 10.6.8 installed with CUDA ToolKit 5.0 (CUDA driver: 5.0.45) and GPU driver: 1.6.36.10 for GeForce 900M. I was unable to locate the correct (updated) GPU drivers for GeForce 900M at NVIDIA site. Kindly suggest a solution.
A given CUDA version (e.g. 5.0) has a minimum GPU driver version associated with it. Any newer version should work, but versions older than the minimum driver version will give an error, as you are seeing.
based on my memory:
cuda 4.0: 270.41.19
cuda 5.0: 304.54
cuda 5.5: 319.37
The above may be approximate, but it gives you an idea. For CUDA 4.0, for example, any GPU driver that is 270.41.19 or newer should work. An older driver (like 256.02) would not work. I don't recall the minimum driver versions for other CUDA versions, but it's not difficult to determine, by visiting the various CUDA download pages.
The most recent driver for your platform appears to be 256.02. Even CUDA 4.0 requires 270.41.19 or newer. So the most recent CUDA version you could use with 256.02 would be CUDA 3.2 The solution in that case, would be to upgrade your GPU driver to 256.02, and remove the CUDA 5.0 toolkit and install CUDA 3.2.
CUDA 3.2 is pretty old, so there will be many features that will be unavailable in that version. You'll want to have appropriate versions of the documentation, which will be installed on your machine along with the CUDA toolkit (e.g. in /usr/local/cuda/doc or similar)
I'm trying to install CUDA 4.2 on my Alienware Aurora desktop system. It's running Ubuntu 12.04, and Linux kernel 3.2.0-32 with an Nvidia GTX 690. I am able to install the CUDA SDK and display driver without issue. However, when Xorg starts, it dies with this error:
Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 295.40, but the NVIDIA driver component has version 295.41. Please make sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components have the same version.
The same thing happens when trying to run a CUDA application. Any thoughts? I have a lab of over a dozen other CUDA workstations which don't have this problem, but are also running Ubuntu 10.10.
In short: Ubuntu 12 is not yer supported distro.
If you still want to run cuda on usupported platform and expose yourself to other such problems see answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/13062766/56875