MAC getting Theano to use the GPU

Question

I am having quite a bit of trouble setting up Theano to work with my graphics card on a mac, I really hope you can give me some help.

WARNING (theano.sandbox.cuda): CUDA is installed, but device gpu0 is not available (error: Unable to get the number of gpus available: CUDA driver version is insufficient for CUDA runtime version)

Answer 1

You need an NVIDIA graphics card to use CUDA as CUDA is an NVIDIA product.

To check if your mac has an NVIDIA graphics card:

• Click on the  in the top left of the screen
• About This Mac
• Check the graphics card under Displays...
• If like me you don't see NVIDIA or GeForce anywhere, you can't use CUDA.
• See this post about alternatives for non NVIDIA for deep learning...