An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2

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Can't say I'm surprised. Compute is one workload you really, really want to run on bare metal. There's a reason specialized hardware was created for it.

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Phoronix: An Early Benchmark Of The NVIDIA CUDA GPU Performance On WSL2

Our recent benchmarks have shown WSL/WSL2 performance on the latest Windows 10 builds to generally be quite good compared to running bare metal Linux. But past the May 2020 Update and on the latest Insider Preview builds is the initial support for GPU acceleration in conjunction with updated Windows graphics drivers. The initial emphasis is on GPU compute with DirectML and for NVIDIA hardware CUDA support as well. Here are a couple CUDA benchmarks that ran gracefully under WSL2 albeit the performance leaves a lot to be desired...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WSL2-CUDA-Perf-Early-Look