To take advantage of the GPU capabilities of Azure N-series VMs backed by NVIDIA GPUs, you must install NVIDIA GPU drivers. The NVIDIA GPU Driver Extension installs appropriate NVIDIA CUDA or GRID drivers on an N-series VM. Install or manage the extension using the Azure portal or tools such as Azure PowerShell or Azure Resource Manager templates. See the NVIDIA GPU Driver Extension documentation for supported operating systems and deployment steps.
NVIDIA Graphic Driver for Windows 10 (64-bit) - Desktop. PC Data Center Mobile: Lenovo Mobile: Motorola Smart Service Parts COMMUNITY. NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Graphics Driver: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Video Driver: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 & 6400 US Only: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 TE 64M / 6600 TE 128M: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 Version 7.0.8.6 UK Only: nVidia GeForce Go 6200/6600 Display Driver for Windows 2000: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600.
If you choose to install NVIDIA GPU drivers manually, this article provides supported operating systems, drivers, and installation and verification steps. Manual driver setup information is also available for Linux VMs.
For basic specs, storage capacities, and disk details, see GPU Windows VM sizes.
NVIDIA Tesla (CUDA) drivers for NC, NCv2, NCv3, NCasT4_v3, ND, and NDv2-series VMs (optional for NV-series) are supported only on the operating systems listed in the following table. Driver download links are current at time of publication. For the latest drivers, visit the NVIDIA website.
Tip
As an alternative to manual CUDA driver installation on a Windows Server VM, you can deploy an Azure Data Science Virtual Machine image. The DSVM editions for Windows Server 2016 pre-install NVIDIA CUDA drivers, the CUDA Deep Neural Network Library, and other tools.
OS | Driver |
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Windows Server 2019 | 451.82 (.exe) |
Windows Server 2016 | 451.82 (.exe) |
Microsoft redistributes NVIDIA GRID driver installers for NV and NVv3-series VMs used as virtual workstations or for virtual applications. Install only these GRID drivers on Azure NV-series VMs, only on the operating systems listed in the following table. These drivers include licensing for GRID Virtual GPU Software in Azure. You do not need to set up a NVIDIA vGPU software license server.
The GRID drivers redistributed by Azure do not work on non-NV series VMs like NCv2, NCv3, ND, and NDv2-series VMs. The one exception is the NCas_T4_V3 VM series where the GRID drivers will enable the graphics functionalities similar to NV-series.
The NC-Series with Nvidia K80 GPUs do not support GRID/graphics applications.
Please note that the Nvidia extension will always install the latest driver. We provide links to the previous version here for customers, who have dependency on an older version.
For Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016 1607, 1709, and Windows 10(up to build 20H2):
For Windows Server 2012 R2:
For the complete list of all previous Nvidia GRID driver links please visit GitHub
Connect by Remote Desktop to each N-series VM.
Download, extract, and install the supported driver for your Windows operating system.
After GRID driver installation on a VM, a restart is required. After CUDA driver installation, a restart is not required.
Please note that the Nvidia Control panel is only accessible with the GRID driver installation. If you have installed CUDA drivers then the Nvidia control panel will not be visible.
You can verify driver installation in Device Manager. The following example shows successful configuration of the Tesla K80 card on an Azure NC VM.
To query the GPU device state, run the nvidia-smi command-line utility installed with the driver.
Open a command prompt and change to the C:Program FilesNVIDIA CorporationNVSMI directory.
Run nvidia-smi
. If the driver is installed, you will see output similar to the following. The GPU-Util shows 0% unless you are currently running a GPU workload on the VM. Your driver version and GPU details may be different from the ones shown.
RDMA network connectivity can be enabled on RDMA-capable N-series VMs such as NC24r deployed in the same availability set or in a single placement group in a virtual machine scale set. The HpcVmDrivers extension must be added to install Windows network device drivers that enable RDMA connectivity. To add the VM extension to an RDMA-enabled N-series VM, use Azure PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Resource Manager.
To install the latest version 1.1 HpcVMDrivers extension on an existing RDMA-capable VM named myVM in the West US region:
For more information, see Virtual machine extensions and features for Windows.
The RDMA network supports Message Passing Interface (MPI) traffic for applications running with Microsoft MPI or Intel MPI 5.x.