# Is it required to set-up CUDA on PC before installing CUDA enabled pytorch?

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**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/is-it-required-to-set-up-cuda-on-pc-before-installing-cuda-enabled-pytorch/60181 "2019-11-06T14:03:54Z")\
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The conda binaries and pip wheels are not yet built with `cudatoolkit=11.2` and you would have to use 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, or 11.0 as given in the [install instructions](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/).

Since these binaries ship with their own CUDA runtime, you would only need a local NVIDIA driver corresponding to the CUDA runtime you are selecting.  
In case you want to build PyTorch from source or any custom CUDA extensions, you should install a matching local CUDA toolkit.

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