CUDA Quick Start Guide
Type: Guide Tags: NVIDIA, CUDA, installation, quick start, setup, validation Related: NVIDIA-CUDA, CUDA-Installation-Guide-Linux, CUDA-Installation-Guide-Windows, CUDA-Demo-Suite, CUDA-Compatibility, NVCC Sources: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-quick-start-guide/index.html Last Updated: 2026-04-29
Summary
The CUDA Quick Start Guide is NVIDIA’s minimal first-steps guide for getting CUDA running on a standard system. It covers basic installation and verification paths for Windows and Linux and points readers to the platform-specific installation guides for deeper setup details.
Detail
The guide is useful when a developer needs the shortest supported path from a clean system to a working CUDA sample. It includes installer choices, pip wheel and Conda-oriented paths, environment setup, and verification using CUDA samples such as nbody.
In the wiki, this page should be used as the starting point before sending someone to the full CUDA-Installation-Guide-Linux or CUDA-Installation-Guide-Windows pages.
Connections
- NVIDIA-CUDA - top-level CUDA platform page.
- CUDA-Installation-Guide-Linux - detailed Linux installation workflow.
- CUDA-Installation-Guide-Windows - detailed Windows installation workflow.
- CUDA-Demo-Suite - validation demos complement quick-start verification.
- CUDA-Compatibility - driver/toolkit compatibility matters during setup.
Source Excerpts
- NVIDIA describes the guide as minimal first-step instructions for getting CUDA running.
- The guide covers installing CUDA and verifying that a CUDA application can run on supported platforms.