Minimum CUDA driver version which works with R2024a

MATLAB displays the error saying that "Graphics driver is out of date. Download and install the latest graphcis driver for your GPU from NVIDIA." despite we have relatively new driver version (530.30.02, Feb2023).

As the page https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/parallel-computing/gpu-computing-requirements.html did not list the driver version required, I would like to know how to check the minimum driver version required?

Answer 1

[Matt J]

The driver version you need is a function of your GPU card. Why not just install the latest one as the error message suggests?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/

Answer 2

[Ayush]

Hi @Yau Hing Tuen Yau,

I understand that you need to run MATLAB on your GPU, but you are facing issues with the version of the installed GPU driver.

To resolve your issue, you can refer to the “Note” section of the documentation : https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2024a/parallel-computing/gpu-computing-requirements.html.

It says MATLAB supports NVIDIA GPU architectures with compute capability 5.0 to 9.x.

To determine the "compute capability" of your GPU, please visit: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus. Additionally, you can check the maximum CUDA support of your installed driver by executing the following command:

$ Nvidia-smi 

This information will help you identify the appropriate driver to install, ensuring compatibility with your MATLAB version.

Hope this helps!

[Yau Hing Tuen Yau]

MATLAB R2023b supports by GPU, but R2024a not. Just wanna know what is the minimum version required as it is not written in the R2024a documentation (the link which I have shared).

nvidia-smi output (slightly redacted):

Mon Sep 23 17:16:52 2024       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 530.30.02              Driver Version: 530.30.02    CUDA Version: 12.1     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                  Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf            Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro RTX 6000                 Off| 00000000:86:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| 33%   32C    P8               10W / 260W|     33MiB / 24576MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                             Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

R2023b output:

>> gpuDeviceTable

ans =

  1x5 table

    Index          Name           ComputeCapability    DeviceAvailable    DeviceSelected
    _____    _________________    _________________    _______________    ______________

      1      "Quadro RTX 6000"          "7.5"               true              false   
     

[Ayush]

If possible, can you share your output of "gpuDeviceTable" in MATLAB R2024a. Also, if any other errors you are encountering apart from the one you mentioned above.

[Ayush]

Your issue might be because MATLAB R2024a supports CUDA toolkit version 12.2 but as per your ouput, your driver version supports CUDA version 12.1 which might be the cause of issue in MATLAB R2024a.

You can read more about it in the "Install CUDA Toolkit" section here https://www.mathworks.com/help/parallel-computing/run-mex-functions-containing-cuda-code.html

You can also use "canUseGPU" command to verify compatibility. You can read more about it here: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/canusegpu.html

[Yau Hing Tuen Yau]

Understood. So by having libcudart.so.12.2.140 in the installation, R2024a requires CUDA 12.2, which means driver has to be >=535.54.03

(Cross-ref: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/12.2.1/cuda-toolkit-release-notes/index.html )

(Edit: Not the minimum version supported by CUDA 12.2, but the driver associating with the release of CUDA 12.2)

[Ayush]

Glad you understood. if you find it useful, you can "accept" the answer so that it helps the other people having similar issue.