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I want to know if the latest CUDA version, which is 8.0, supports the GPUs in my computer, which are GeForce GTX 970 and Quadro K4200 (a dual-GPU system); I couldn't find the info online.

In general, how to find if a CUDA version, especially the newly released version, supports a specific Nvidia GPU?

Thanks!

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In general, how to find if a CUDA version, especially the newly released version, supports a specific Nvidia GPU?

All CUDA versions from CUDA 7.0 to CUDA 8.0 support GPUs that have a compute capability of 2.0 or higher. Both of your GPUs are in this category.

Prior to CUDA 7.0, some older GPUs were supported also. You can find details of that here.

Note that CUDA 8.0 has announced that development for compute capability 2.0 and 2.1 is deprecated, meaning that support for these (Fermi) GPUs may be dropped in a future CUDA release.

In general, a list of currently supported CUDA GPUs and their compute capabilities is maintained by NVIDIA here although the list occasionally has omissions for very new GPUs just released.

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  • Thanks for the prompt and thorough answer! – chaohuang Oct 04 '16 at 17:04
  • One more question: how to find the GPU driver version that a CUDA version requires? – chaohuang Oct 04 '16 at 17:48
  • For CUDA 8, just use the driver that comes with the CUDA toolkit installer. For previous CUDA versions, look [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30820513/what-is-version-of-cuda-for-nvidia-304-125) – Robert Crovella Oct 04 '16 at 18:23
  • Thanks, but again, how do I know if the driver in the CUDA 8.0 toolkit installer supports my GPUs? – chaohuang Oct 04 '16 at 18:46
  • The driver in the cuda 8 toolkit supports every GPU that was available at the time of release I.e. about a week ago. So your GPUs are supported. More generally you can install the latest driver for your GPU and it will work with any previously released CUDA toolkit. – Robert Crovella Oct 04 '16 at 19:43