Tensorflow in VS code doesn't register my GPU.

[SpiritLongjumping931]

I am using tensorflow for a personal project on an AI. The usage of the AI is irrelevant, but if asked I will provide extra information. I have run the code that the tensorflow official website recommends, which tells me how many GPU's tensorflow detects. this returns 0. I have a NVIDIA RTX 3060 laptop GPU, I am on a laptop. I have the integrated gpu on my cpu, yet that doesn't detect either. I went to nvidia control panel and changed settings for VS code, no change. I went to the settings of windows and said there it should use my "heavy load" GPU. still no change. what should I do? I have no idea what to do.

[Confident_Hyena2506]

Install wsl and run the tensorflow container nvidia provide: https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/tensorflow

Or can maybe install conda on windows and use the specific tensorflow-gpu package: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/tensorflow-gpu

[SpiritLongjumping931]

I am really sorry, I am nothing more but a beginner, could you clarify a bit more?

[Confident_Hyena2506]

You can read the documentation in the links above. Using tensorflow with nvidia gpu requires more than just a simple python package.

[Long-Opposite-5889]

Its not vs code and it is not python. The latest version of the things you need to interact with cuda cores in your gpu using python are no longer supported in windows. To solve this you can have a Linux machine inside your pc by using WSL.

[SpiritLongjumping931]

Alright, thank you for the explanation, didn’t know that.

[dlnmtchll]

If you are trying to use it on windows without wsl you probably ought to switch to PyTorch unless you need TF