Installing the last Nvidia GPU driver#

The compute capability of the Nvidia GPU equipped to your system should not be less than 5. To check the compute capability of a GPU, please refer to the following Nvidia web page. Depending on your system, you are invited to follow the instructions below.

Windows#

To install the latest Nvidia GPU driver, please download the driver from the following Nvidia link https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Windows&target_arch=x86_64. Please launch the downloaded installer, and follow the instructions.

Linux Debian#

To install the latest Nvidia GPU on Linux based operating systems, please follow the steps below:

  • Open a terminal

  • To add GPU driver’s repository, enter the following command

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

  • Update the package repository information

    sudo apt update

  • Upgrade all packages on your system

    sudo apt upgrade

  • Find out what proprietary driver packages are available. This information is available on NVIDIA’s site: https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html .

  • In the case of Ubuntu just the following command can be used

    Ubuntu-drivers list

  • A list of available packages will be displayed (see picture above). To install the latest package, replace “VERSION_NUMBER” in the next command with the highest version number in the list of available packages. For example : “nvidia-driver-415” .

    sudo apt install nvidia-driver-VERSION_NUMBER

  • Reboot your computer so that the new driver is loaded.