TensorFlow on Windows: “Couldn't open CUDA library cudnn64_5.dll”

Question

Tensorflow just released windows support. I installed the gpu version and CUDA 8.0 and python 3.5. However, after I import the tensorflow I got the following error:

Answer 1

In addition to the answers above make sure that you've downloaded the supported version of cuDNN. Currently TensorFlow supports the older cuDNN v.5.1 while there is a newer cuDNN 6.0 available on Nvidia site. I had such errors with 6.0. When I rolled back to 5.1 everything worked.

• Check TensorFlow requirments here: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_windows
• Download the supported version of cuDNN from here: https://developer.nvidia.com/rdp/cudnn-download