CUDA confusion

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

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Jul 08, 2009 21:59

This may sound silly but here it is anyway.
I have nVidia GTS 250 1 GB card.
The latest driver for this is 186.18 for WIN XP 64

Now comes the twitch
If we look into nVidia site Technology > CUDA > downloads we will see 1) CUDA driver 2) CUDA Toolkit 3) CUDa SDK Code samples

If we look at the CUDA driver it shows 185.85

Now the question is
Is it enough to download and install Graphics driver 186.18 to get benefit of CUDA
OR
Is is required to download both the drivers 186.18 and CUDA 185.85 and install
OR
Is it enough to download and install CUDA 185.85 only and this acts as a graphics driver+CUDA
OR
Is it required to download CUDA driver+Tool kit+ SDK code samples

I am trying to get an answer and searched the forums.

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PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jul 08, 2009 22:37

186.18 did it all, at least for me. CUDA works fine. The actual CUDA driver is version 6.14.11.8618.

Jeff

James W

Senior Contributor Location: Lakeland, FL USA Joined: Aug 18, 2008 10:36 Messages: 911 Offline

Jul 09, 2009 07:41

Babdi,

nVidia has a driver update feature on their website. If you let it scan your system it will determine what driver to download. For CUDA to work, I just download the driver file it recommends and go with that. I've never even heard of the tool kit so I'm do not even know what it is for. PD only requires the driver to be installed. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

babindia

Senior Contributor Location: India Joined: Aug 16, 2007 06:11 Messages: 884 Offline

Jul 09, 2009 08:40

Thank you JL and James
James I always do as you have posted.My confusion arose when I clicked CUDA where they have a CUDA driver + Toolkit and stuff.
That made me ponder and post. To get to what I am talking about follow the link I posted in my 1st post.

This is the CUDA link I was talking about :
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
and select your OS

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PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

Tim

Newbie Joined: Jul 02, 2008 03:07 Messages: 23 Offline

Jul 23, 2009 01:49

Did you get CUDA to work with the GTS 250 card? I am wondering because I am contemplating that card, but it is not listed as supported on the PowerDirector website, here:

http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/cuda-optimization_en_US.html

My assumption is that maybe it has just not been added to the list.