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What does 'Off' mean in the output of nvidia-smi?


I run a tensorflow code in the GPU. The image bellow shows the nvidia-smi info::

I want ask what does 'Off' mean in the output of nvidia-smi? Also what does the ""C"" type means here??

My code run in the GPU or CPU in this situation????

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Solution

  • "C" stands for compute. "G" stands for graphics. Both run on the graphics card. "Off" is in reference to "Persistence-M", which stands for Persistence Mode which keeps the driver always loaded.