Difference between pip install cudatoolkit=9.0 and download install from CUDA website

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I have a simple confusion, what is difference between pip install cudatoolkit=9.0 and download the run file from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-90-download-archive and install cuda 9.0.
Anyone can help?

Best Answer

The .run file, is delegated to install the CUDA drivers for you GPU in your system. Then, after that you have the driver installed, you can use the cudatoolkit in order to wrap the low level C/C++ function in python language. Before the installation of the python toolkit, you need to be sure that the drivers are correctly installed.

More info about the procedure: https://developer.nvidia.com/how-to-cuda-python

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