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nikebol906
nikebol906

Reputation: 172

Running nvidia-smi from Windows PowerShell?

I'm trying to check my GPUs from Windows PowerShell with nvidia-smi but I can't get it to work.

I already checked this post but I don't see a folder that starts with nvdm in my C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository directory.

I have two version of CUDA installed v8.0 and v11.2 but my System Variables (CUDA_HOME, CUDA_PATH, CUDA_PATH_v11_2) all point towards the v11.2 folder.

Is there a reason I would have CUDA but not nvidia-smi on my PC?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10768

Answers (2)

Bjop
Bjop

Reputation: 336

Just in case sommeone stumbles upon this problem in a more recent version:

Nvidia-smi commes included with cuda 12.4 (since cuda version 8 https://developer.nvidia.com/gpu-deployment-kit). And the exec file is located at C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_362f239e9bd019fc.

This means that the command will work in CMD but not in PowerShell. To solve this you need to add the path to environment variables.

Upvotes: 0

Robert Crovella
Robert Crovella

Reputation: 151849

  1. Make sure that nvidia-smi.exe is in the folder C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI. If it is not, you may wish to reinstall a NVIDIA GPU driver for your GPU, choosing a driver from a CUDA toolkit installer.

  2. add the path to your windows Path variable:

  • open windows file explorer
  • right click on your PC icon
  • select properties
  • select advanced system settings
  • click the environment variables button
  • Add the following path: C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI to the Path variable listed in the system variables section (select the variable, click "edit")
  • save
  1. Open a new power shell
  2. type nvidia-smi

Upvotes: 5

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