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How can I know from the terminal or something whether my hardware supports CUDA?

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Using the browser to find CUDA

  1. Open Chrome browser
  2. Goto the url chrome://gpu
  3. Search for cuda and you should get the version detected (in my case, not enabled)

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    If that shows 0, the hardware may still support CUDA, but the drivers simply are not installed/working. It shows 0 on my laptop, but GPU-Z says my hardware supports CUDA 1.2 – Pascal Sep 07 '21 at 17:30
  • it is almost useless answer ... "almost" cause chrome suggests you to install the latest official drivers :D https://askubuntu.com/a/1450399/652604 – madzohan Jan 15 '23 at 23:38
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CUDA works with all Nvidia GPUs from the G8x series onwards, including GeForce, Quadro and the Tesla line. CUDA is compatible with most standard operating systems.

For a list of supported graphic cards, see Wikipedia.

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  • I have an onboard graphics chip. – a06e Jun 07 '15 at 17:48
  • You didn't tell me that earlier. What is your motherboard manufacturer and model? Does it have a Nvidia graphic processor? – LDC3 Jun 07 '15 at 17:50
  • I don't know. How can I tell without opening my chasis? – a06e Jun 07 '15 at 18:03
  • A system diagnostic program called speccy is available that will tell you everything you need: http://www.piriform.com/speccy – LDC3 Jun 07 '15 at 19:25
  • I think speccy doesn't work in Ubuntu. – a06e Jun 07 '15 at 19:34
  • These pages have system information programs for Ubuntu and other Linux OS: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-get-your-system-information-with-sysinfo.html http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-get-hardware-information-in.html – LDC3 Jun 07 '15 at 20:47
  • Thanks. I like lshw. From what I gather, I have a "Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller" from Intel. Will it support CUDA? – a06e Jun 07 '15 at 20:57
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    No, only Nvidia controllers use CUDA. – LDC3 Jun 07 '15 at 21:03
  • Thanks, that answers my question. Just one more: Will my chip support OpenCL? – a06e Jun 07 '15 at 21:11
  • Ask that in another question because I don't know the answer. The person who does will need to know which graphics controller you have. – LDC3 Jun 07 '15 at 21:17
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(2021 update)

  1. CUDA software API is supported on Nvidia GPUs, through the software drivers provided by Nvidia.

  2. If your desktop has a Nvidia GPU, AND you have the Nvidia drivers installed (for ex from https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx), an executable that uses CUDA can be built using CUDA toolkit, as outlined at -

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/even-easier-introduction-cuda/

  1. To compile a CUDA application specifically for your GPU, the compute capability of the specific GPU is required, and this can be obtained by following the steps outlined at

https://github.com/prabindh/mygpu

(I am the author of that web tool)

Manually, you could use nvidia-smi that is installed along with the driver

nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name --format=csv

Or use driver information to obtain GPU name and map it to Compute capability.

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  1. CUDA support is shown in official nvidia website, for example my geforce-gtx-1060

  2. In case it is supported and you have LTS Ubuntu version:

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