#Ubuntu check current nvidia driver install#
#Ubuntu check current nvidia driver full#
#Ubuntu check current nvidia driver series#

#Ubuntu check current nvidia driver install#

Note that this method might not work on Ubuntu 18.04 if you install Nvidia driver and CUDA from Ubuntu 18.04’s own official repository. Method 3 - cat /usr/local/cuda/version.txt cat /usr/local/cuda/version.txt For the other use of nvcc, you can use it to compile and link both host and GPU code.Ĭheck out the manpage of nvcc for more information. It is the main wrapper for the CUDA compiler suite. Nvcc is the NVIDIA CUDA Compiler, thus the name.

#Ubuntu check current nvidia driver full#

You will see the full text output after the screenshot too. The last line reveals a version of your CUDA version. To check the CUDA version with nvcc on Ubuntu 18.04, execute nvcc -versionĭifferent output can be seen in the screenshot below. If you have installed the cuda-toolkit package either from Ubuntu 18.04’s or NVIDIA’s official Ubuntu 18.04 repository through sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit, or by downloading from NVIDIA’s official website and install it manually, you will have nvcc in your path ( $PATH) and its location would be /usr/bin/nvcc (by running which nvcc). Method 2 - Use nvcc to check CUDA version on Ubuntu 18.04

Metrics can be used by users directly via stdout, or saved in CSV and XML formats for scripting purposes.įor more information, check out nvidia-smi‘s manpage. NVSMI is also a cross-platform program which supports all common NVIDIA driver-supported Linux distros and 64-bit versions of Windows starting with Windows Server 2008 R2.

#Ubuntu check current nvidia driver series#

For most functions, GeForce Titan Series products are supported with only a limited amount of detail provided for the rest of the Geforce range. nvidia-smi provides tracking and maintenance features for all of the Tesla, Quadro, GRID and GeForce NVIDIA GPUs and higher architectural families in Fermi. Nvidia-smi (NVSMI) is NVIDIA System Management Interface program.

| 0 19471 G …AAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAA= -shared-files 524MiB What is nvidia-smi? | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. Also you can find the processes that actually use the GPU. Surprisingly, except for the CUDA version, you can also find more detail from nvidia-smi, such as driver version (440.64), GPU name, GPU fan ratio, power consumption / capacity, memory usage. Whether you have 10.0, 10.1 or even the older 9.0 installed, it will differ. The details about the CUDA version is to the top right of the output. You will see similar output to the screenshot below. To use nvidia-smi to check your CUDA version on Ubuntu 18.04, directly run from command line nvidia-smi You can install either Nvidia driver from the official repository of Ubuntu, or from the NVIDIA website. The first way to check CUDA version is to run nvidia-smi that comes from your Ubuntu 18.04’s NVIDIA driver, specifically the NVIDIA-utils package. Method 1 - Use nvidia-smi from Nvidia Linux driver Before we start, you should have installed NVIDIA driver on your system as well as Nvidia CUDA toolkit.