How do I use TensorFlow GPU?

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How do I use TensorFlow GPU version instead of CPU version in Python 3.6 x64?

import tensorflow as tf

Python is using my CPU for calculations.
I can notice it because I have an error:

> Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not > compiled to use: AVX2

I have installed tensorflow and tensorflow-gpu.

How do I switch to GPU version?

Python Solutions

Solution 1 - Python

Follow this tutorial Tensorflow GPU I did it and it works perfect.

Attention! - install version 9.0! newer version is not supported by Tensorflow-gpu

Steps:

  1. Uninstall your old tensorflow
  2. Install tensorflow-gpu pip install tensorflow-gpu
  3. Install Nvidia Graphics Card & Drivers (you probably already have)
  4. Download & Install CUDA
  5. Download & Install cuDNN
  6. Verify by simple program
from tensorflow.python.client import device_lib 
print(device_lib.list_local_devices())

Solution 2 - Python

The 'new' way to install tensorflow GPU if you have Nvidia, is with Anaconda. Works on Windows too. With 1 line.

conda create --name tf_gpu tensorflow-gpu

This is a shortcut for 3 commands, which you can execute separately if you want or if you already have a conda environment and do not need to create one.

  1. Create an anaconda environment conda create --name tf_gpu

  2. Activate the environment conda activate tf_gpu

  3. Install tensorflow-GPU conda install tensorflow-gpu

You can use the conda environment.

Solution 3 - Python

Follow the steps in the latest version of the documentation. Note: GPU and CPU functionality is now combined in a single tensorflow package

pip install tensorflow

# OLDER VERSIONS pip install tensorflow-gpu

https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu

This is a great guide for installing drivers and CUDA if needed: https://www.quantstart.com/articles/installing-tensorflow-22-on-ubuntu-1804-with-an-nvidia-gpu/

Solution 4 - Python

First you need to install tensorflow-gpu, because this package is responsible for gpu computations. Also remember to run your code with environment variable CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES = 0 (or if you have multiple gpus, put their indices with comma). There might be some issues related to using gpu. if your tensorflow does not use gpu anyway, try this

Solution 5 - Python

I tried following the above tutorial. Thing is tensorflow changes a lot and so do the NVIDIA versions needed for running on a GPU. The next issue is that your driver version determines your toolkit version etc. As of today this information about the software requirements should shed some light on how they interplay:

NVIDIA® GPU drivers —CUDA 9.0 requires 384.x or higher.
CUDA® Toolkit —TensorFlow supports CUDA 9.0.
CUPTI ships with the CUDA Toolkit.
cuDNN SDK (>= 7.2) Note: Make sure your GPU has compute compatibility >3.0
(Optional) NCCL 2.2 for multiple GPU support.
(Optional) TensorRT 4.0 to improve latency and throughput for inference on some models.

And here you'll find the up-to-date requirements stated by tensorflow (which will hopefully be updated by them on a regular basis).

Solution 6 - Python

For conda environment.

  • conda search tensorflow to search the available versions of tensorflow. The ones that have mkl are optimized for CPU. You can choose the ones with gpu.
  • Then check the version of your cuda using nvcc --version and find the proper version of tensorflow in this page, according to your version of cuda.
  • For example, for cuda/10.1,and python3.8, you can use
    • conda install tensorflow=2.2.0=gpu_py38hb782248_0

Solution 7 - Python

Strangely, even though the tensorflow website 1 mentions that CUDA 10.1 is compatible with tensorflow-gpu-1.13.1, it doesn't work so far. tensorflow-gpu gets installed properly though but it throws out weird errors when running.

So far, the best configuration to run tensorflow with GPU is CUDA 9.0 with tensorflow_gpu-1.12.0 under python3.6.

Following this configuration with the steps mentioned in https://stackoverflow.com/a/51307381/2562870 (the answer above), worked for me :)

Solution 8 - Python

Uninstall tensorflow and install only tensorflow-gpu; this should be sufficient. By default, this should run on the GPU and not the CPU. However, further you can do the following to specify which GPU you want it to run on.

If you have an nvidia GPU, find out your GPU id using the command nvidia-smi on the terminal. After that, add these lines in your script:

os.environ["CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER"] = "PCI_BUS_ID"
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = #GPU_ID from earlier

config = tf.ConfigProto()
sess = tf.Session(config=config)

For the functions where you wish to use GPUs, write something like the following:

with tf.device(tf.DeviceSpec(device_type="GPU", device_index=gpu_id)):
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