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classikh

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Registered: 2023-06-13

Posts: 45

Configure RTX 3060 on Arch

I have my laptop which is an Ideapad 3. It has 12th generation i7 and an RTX 3060 GPU. I do a lot of work with machine learning models and neural networks so when i train these models, i need to make sure they are making use of the GPU and not CPU.
However, as i have seen, currently they are making use of the CPU.

How can i configure my GPU on arch system. Also if there is a way to monitor GPU usage?

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: Configure RTX 3060 on Arch

Install the nvidia graphics driver, as detailed in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation and then install nvidia-prime to make use of the GPU on demand: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME# … er_offload

For monitoring nvidia provides the nvidia-smi cmdline utilty and a xorg application, which will however only reliably work on xorg.

Seeing as you want to use GPGPU maybe also check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPGPU#CUDA and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPGPU#NVIDIA

If this doesn't help maybe get more detailed on "as I have seen still making use of the CPU" which tools are you talking about and on which logs are you inferring this statement from.

TheSgtBilko

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Registered: 2013-08-13

Posts: 89

Re: Configure RTX 3060 on Arch

For additional GPU monitoring: nvtop