Help with running Pytorch on an old GPU

[JohanR]

Hey, I’m attempting to run this pix2pix PyTorch implementation (https://github.com/junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix) on my old GeForce GTX 660 Ti that uses Driver Version: 340.107. As far as I’ve understood from other posts and websites my driver can only run CUDA 6.0 or 6.5. Is there any PyTorch that can run with 6.0/6.5? I found that Anaconda have CUDAtoolkits for 6.0/6.5 but that PyTorch through Anaconda only seems to go down to CUDA 7.
Another post said to make a build from source but I have no idea how to proceed with that.
The pix2pix implementations works well with PyTorch 0.41+ and has older branches that support PyTorch 0.1-0.3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Best,
Johan

Error when running PyTorch with CUDA 10:
File “/home/johan/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/torch/cuda/init.py”, line 110, in _check_driver
of the CUDA driver.""".format(str(torch._C._cuda_getDriverVersion())))
AssertionError:
The NVIDIA driver on your system is too old (found version 6050).
Please update your GPU driver by downloading and installing a new
version from the URL: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

[KFrank]

Hello Johan!

@JohanR

Is there any PyTorch that can run with 6.0/6.5? I found that Anaconda have CUDAtoolkits for 6.0/6.5 but that PyTorch through Anaconda only seems to go down to CUDA 7.

I went through a similar issue, and was helped greatly by the answers I
got in this thread (thanks, in particular, to @ptrblck and @peterjc123):

Pre-built pytorch for CUDA [compute capability] 3.0 on windows?

Hi Forum! Would anybody know of a pre-built pytorch windows / CUDA 3.0 version? (It’s windows 10, if that matters.) I’m aware that pytorch no longer formally supports older CUDA versions, but I have seen older pre-built packages floating around on the internet – just not this configuration. (I will be installing pytorch on an older laptop with a CUDA 3.0 quadro k1100m graphics card. I’ll just be monkeying around, so I don’t need the gpu, but I’d like to monkey around with the gpu, as …

In particular, one of these pytorch legacy builds worked for me.

Note, going this route pushed me back to pytorch version 0.3.0.
I suppose that this has been something of a worthy archeological
learning experience for me, but it is a bit of a nuisance.

Another post said to make a build from source but I have no idea how to proceed with that.

I didn’t have the courage for this (so I just shamble along with version
0.3.0).

Good luck.

K. Frank

[JohanR]

Thank you @KFrank ! Your discussion with ptrblck and peterjc123 was very detailed so hopefully I’m able to reproduce the steps.