How can I know about compute capability and sm of my Graphics card?

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I know I can get the compute capabilty by just visiting this official cuda page, or this wiki page.
But I dont know how I am supposed to find the sm of my card. Is this short for shader model? or shared memory? or none of them?

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 18 '19 at 19:36

You should just use your compute capability from the page you linked to. For example, if your compute capability is 6.1 us sm_61 and compute_61.

SM stands for "streaming multiprocessor". The arguments are set in this confusing looking way because they are used as arguments for nvcc where the compute_XX sets the architecture for a virtual (intermediate) code representation and sm_XX sets the architecture for the real representation. Unless you have a good reason, you should set both of these to the same thing.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '16 at 01:31

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You can use this page to find your GPU "Compute Capability": https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus Use it for both "compute_xy" and "sm_xy"

answered Nov 19 '16 at 01:31

Arash

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 02 '25 at 13:28

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Since version 11.6 of the Cuda Toolkit you can run:

nvidia-smi --query-gpu=compute_cap --format=csv

answered Jun 02 '25 at 13:28

user74094

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 25 '17 at 14:16

In order to get more information about your graphics card you could use the Geeks3D GPU Caps Viewer (Alternative). It's similar to GPU-Z but does provide some additional information that might prove useful. Like whenever a card is CUDA/OpenCL/Vulkan compatible.

In addition it has some more in-depth information for each of those things. For CUDA the Compute Capability and Shader Clock might be interesting for you?

How can I know about compute capability and sm of my Graphics card?

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