is there a way to use tensorflow on windows 10 without slowing it down with a virtual machine?

Question

I am using tensorflow currently on a virtualbox Linux VM, on a native windows pc.

This is slow.

I've read what I could find about this (e.g.: How to install TensorFlow on Windows?)

However, they suggest using a Virtual Machine, which is maybe 10 times slower compared to a native OS.

Is there a way to use Tensorflow just in windows directly?

Answer 1

Yes. We recently announced TensorFlow 0.12, which is the first version that comes with Windows support and pre-built packages for Windows. It supports Python 3.5 and GPU acceleration with GPUs that support CUDA 8.0. To install the Python package on Windows you can use pip:

C:\> pip install tensorflow

To install the GPU-acclerated version there is a different package:

C:\> pip install tensorflow-gpu