How to know which cuDNN version one should use?

Question

I plan to use cuDNN on Linux: how to know which cuDNN version I need? Should I always use the most recent one?

E.g. choosing the right CUDA version depends on the Nvidia

Answer 1

In addition to CUDA version requirements, you need to ensure that your GPU has compute capability that is high enough:

• All versions of cuDNN from 1.0 to 5.1 require compute capability 3.0 or higher.

Wikipedia's CUDA article has a good list of the various compute capability levels and corresponding GPUs (a similar list is available on Nvidia's compute capability webpage).