Cntk: Is GTX1080 going to be supported soon?

[oxrider]

Is GTX1080 going to be supported soon? And is there a workaround currently available to somehow use GTX1080 on CNTK?

[DanielMerget]

For a temporary solution/workaround, see PR #771 and Issue #655

[kestrelm]

Any news on when the official binary releases will be ready? @chrisbasoglu mentioned that it would be ready for a 8/19 release but I haven't seen any official updates on the github page yet. I have a gtx 1060 that is ready to run CNTK whenever they push out the update. Thanks!

[chrisbasoglu]

likely 8/25 or 8/26

[chrisbasoglu]

Ok. Its out as source in master. official binaries and notifications will happen on 8/29 (we are taking the opportunity to go to cudnn 5.1).

[kestrelm]

@chrisbasoglu Hello, thank you for releasing the 1.7 binaries for the 10 series cards! Can I just run your released binary or do I need to build from source if I have a gtx 1060?

If I am running your released binary directly, do I need to install CUDA 8?

Thanks!

[chrisbasoglu]

Can I just run your released binary?
yes

do I need to install CUDA 8?
You should not need to. You may get better perf with CUDA 8 and maybe some Pascal specific fixes, however -- so you may wish to install it (if you do use CUDA 8, then you will need to build from source). Note that CUDA 8 is still a release candidate, not final release. We won't officially support CUDA 8 until it is a final release.

[n17s]

Also see this how do I if you get a weird curand error.