What can I do against 'CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version'?

Question

When I go to /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery and execute

moose@pc09 /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery $ sudo make          


        

Answer 1

Update your NVIDIA driver. At the moment you have the driver which only supports CUDA 6 or lower, and you are trying to use the CUDA 7.0 toolkit with it.

Answer 2

I ran into this exact same error message with toolkit 8.0 on ubuntu 1604. I tried reinstalling toolkit, cudnn, etc etc and it didn't help. The solution turned out to be very simple: update to the latest NVIDIA driver. I installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.57.run and the error went away.

Answer 3

My cent,

this error may be related to the selected GPU mode (Performance/Power Saving Mode), when you select (with nvidia-settings utiliy) the integrated Intel GPU and you execute the deviceQuery script... you get this error:

-> CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version

But this error is misleading, by selecting back the NVIDIA GPU(Performance mode) with nvidia-settings utility the problem disappears.

It is not a version problem (in my scenario).

Regards