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

  • Nvidia-smi: CUDA Version: 11.2
  • PyTorch install: CUDA 11.3 or 11.6?

Local machine

nvidia-smi
Tue Aug 30 11:38:20 2022
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 462.09 Driver Version: 462.09 CUDA Version: 11.2 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name TCC/WDDM | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 RTX A3000 Lapto… WDDM | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 51C P0 29W / N/A | 128MiB / 6144MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

PyTorch install

  • Start Locally | PyTorch currently offers CUDA 11.3 and 11.6.
  • Since the command nvidia-smi run on my local machine indicates CUDA Version 11.2, should I choose CUDA 11.3 or CUDA 11.6 when downloading PyTorch?

Thanks a lot for your time and any help…