Installing CUDA and cuDNN on windows 10

Installing CUDA and cuDNN on windows 10

This is an how-to guide for someone who is trying to figure our, how to install CUDA and cuDNN on windows to be used with tensorflow.

It should be noted that at the time of writing this, tensor flow is supporting only upto CUDA version 9.0 and corresponding cuDNN libraries so please don’t download CUDA 9.2.

Installing CUDA 9.0 on windows.

Pre requisites :

• NVIDIA GPU with compute capability of > 2.0 . Check your GPU here
• Download CUDA version 9.0

Please note if your connection permits, please download the local version. That saves you from sitting around waiting for download to finish at the installation time.

The download should be ~ 1.4 G. Once the download finishes, launch the installer and follow the defaults. It takes around 10–15 mins for installation to finish. Pleasy verify the files at the default install location after the installation finishes: C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v9.0

Installing cuDNN from NVIDIA

First of all, register yourself at NVIDIA Developer site. Its an free registration and takes only a couple of…