Matlab Does not recognise NVIDIA GPU Card in the PC

I am trying to use GPU NVIDIA Quadro 2000 with matlab 2017a but every time I am using gpuDeviceCount the answer is 0.

I have tried to update the driver of the gpu but the version was the latest one.

wish to solve my problem Thanks

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Is that so difficult question or so simple question?? I just need to know why the gpu is not being recognised in matlab!

I checked every thing, the tool box is already installed, the driver is the latest one, the gpu is recognised in PC but the problem is to conect it with matlab. I even installed Cuda Nividia kit which I dont know why.

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Is there any wrong in the question? I feel there is something misunderstood!!

[Walter Roberson]

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Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Is that:

• Quadro P2000 (CUDA capability 6.1)
• Quadro M2000 (CUDA capability 5.3)
• Quadro K2000 (CUDA capability 3.0)

What operating system are you using, and which distribution / release are you using? Which CUDA did you install?

If you just recently installed CUDA then you would have downloaded CUDA 9.0, which was not supported by MATLAB R2017a. MATLAB R2017a supported CUDA 8.0; you can download that from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-80-ga2-download-archive

Answer 2

[Edric Ellis]

Further to Walter's pertinent questions, I'd like to add: it's important to distinguish the CUDA driver from the CUDA toolkit.

CUDA Driver:

• The CUDA driver allows the computer to access the GPU device for computation
• All users must install a CUDA driver
• It is always advisable to use the latest CUDA driver (NVIDIA ensure backwards-compatibility for CUDA drivers which mean that newer drivers are intended to work completely correctly with older applications)

CUDA Toolkit:

• The CUDA toolkit provides support for compiling CUDA sources
• Most users don't actually need to install the CUDA toolkit
• The CUDA toolkit is needed only for compiling CUDA sources (e.g. for use with mexcuda or CUDAKernel)
• If you do install the CUDA toolkit, ensure that the version matches the version used by MATLAB. The version used by MATLAB is described in the Parallel Computing Toolbox release notes

If after installing the latest CUDA driver, MATLAB cannot recognise the GPU device, then contact MathWorks support who are able to take you through additional debugging steps.

[Walter Roberson]

Ah, good clarification.

[pb]

Hi, @Walter Roberson @Edric Ellis, just commenting on this old thread instead of starting a new question as the topic is directly related to this. If preferable, I am happy to start a new question.

I am having the same issue as the poster (gpuDeviceTable shows nothing), and from what I understand from your comments, I do not need to worry about the CUDA toolkit, only the CUDA driver. I have attached a snippet showing my system settings for the GPU (the model and the driver version).

I am not familiar with the "compute capability," however from the doc here, it says 3.5-9.x. This link has two GeForce 710 models, and the compute capability on both is written as 2.1. Does this mean that this won't show in MATLAB? I just want to make sure I interpret correctly before I go out and get another graphics card

[Edric Ellis]

@pb I don't see any attachment... I believe even unsupported devices should be shown by gpuDeviceTable providing your CUDA driver is recent enough.

[pb]

Hi @Edric Ellis, oops sorry I forgot to attach. I have attached the snip now showing hte driver details of the graphics card that is installed on my CPU, but it is not showing up on gpuDeviceTable. Let me know if any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[Edric Ellis]

@pb so far as I can tell, that graphics driver is not the latest available. It looks like 474.64 is the latest. According to this page https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-710.c1990 the Geforce GT 710 is Compute Capability 3.5, so it should be supported by the latest release of MATLAB, R2023b. (Earlier releases will support older devices). Note however that this card is nearly 10 years old and not very powerful, and is unlikely to give particularly good performance.

[pb]

Hi @Edric Ellis, thanks very much for your quick response, I was traveling so missed to acknowledge it earlier. I did update the driver and it was detected in MATLAB. I had not messed with the driver because the person who installed the Graphics Card had installed that driver.

As per your suggetsion I will also look for another graphics card, is there any main specs I should look out for?

Finally, if you get a moment, would you be able to take a look at my comment on here, from 25 Nov 2023, and if you could shed any light on it that would be great. The documentation for GPU usage states that all inputs must be moved onto GPU in order to compute on the GPU, however, I am trying to figure out what the nature of the inputs are (i.e. a computing tool such as a classifier, versus a simple variable that may be altered)

[Edric Ellis]

GPU specs depend on the workload you're intending to use. Standard MATLAB-style numerics require good double-precision performance. These devices can be very expensive. Other applications use integer or single-precision floating point numbers far more, and can run well on somewhat less expensive devices.

Regarding your comment - in general you need to move data to the GPU to have operations performed there - but this only applies to numeric/logical data and ordinary numeric operations. Deep learning isn't something I know much about, but perhaps this page will help: https://uk.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ug/scale-up-deep-learning-in-parallel-on-gpus-and-in-the-cloud.html