Installation on Windows

Operating Environment

  • 64-bit operating system

  • Windows 7/8, Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise

  • Python 2.7/3.5/3.6/3.7

  • pip or pip3 >= 9.0.1

Precautions

  • The default installation package requires your computer to support AVX instruction set and MKL. If your environment doesn’t support AVX instruction set and MKL, please download these no-avx, openblas versions of installation package.

  • The current version doesn’t support functions related to NCCL and distributed learning.

CPU or GPU

  • If your computer doesn’t have NVIDIA® GPU, please install the CPU version of PaddlePaddle

  • If your computer has NVIDIA® GPU, and it satisfies the following requirements, we recommend you to install the GPU version of PaddlePaddle

    • CUDA Toolkit 8.0/9.2 with cuDNN v7.3+

    • GPU’s computing capability exceeds 1.0

Please refer to the NVIDIA official documents for the installation process and the configuration methods of CUDA and cuDNN.

Installation Method

There are 3 ways to install PaddlePaddle on Windows:

We would like to introduce the pip installation here.

Installation Process

  • CPU version of PaddlePaddle: pip install paddlepaddle or pip3 install paddlepaddle

  • GPU version of PaddlePaddle: pip install paddlepaddle-gpu or pip3 install paddlepaddle-gpu

There is a checking function below for verifyig whether the installation is successful. If you have any further questions, please check the FAQ part.

Notice:

  • The version of pip and the version of python should be corresponding: python2.7 corresponds to pip; python3.x corresponds to pip3.

  • pip install paddlepaddle-gpu This command will install PaddlePaddle that supports CUDA 8.0 cuDNN v7. Currently, PaddlePaddle doesn’t support any other version of CUDA or cuDNN on Windows.

Installation Verification

After completing the installation process, you can use python or python3 to enter python interpreter and input import paddle.fluid as fluid and then fluid.install_check.run_check() to check whether the installation is successful.

If you see Your Paddle Fluid is installed succesfully!, your installation is verified successful.

Uninstall PaddlePaddle

  • CPU version of PaddlePaddle: pip uninstall paddlepaddle or pip3 uninstall paddlepaddle

  • GPU version of PaddlePaddle: pip uninstall paddlepaddle-gpu or pip3 uninstall paddlepaddle-gpu