NVIDIA cuDNN

Spec sheet

Purpose

cuDNN is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Security

NVIDIA’s cuDNN page directs users to report security vulnerabilities or NVIDIA AI concerns.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Support

NVIDIA provides cuDNN documentation and a developer forum from the product page.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

License

Downloading and using cuDNN requires compliance with the NVIDIA Software License Agreement.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Framework integrations

NVIDIA lists PyTorch, JAX, Caffe2, Chainer, Keras, MATLAB, MxNet, PaddlePaddle, and TensorFlow among the frameworks cuDNN accelerates.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Frontend

NVIDIA recommends its open-source Python/C++ Frontend API for accessing the Graph API, with a lower-level C Backend API also available.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Fusion

cuDNN supports flexible fusions around matrix multiplication and convolution, plus specialized patterns such as attention and convolution with normalization.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Graph API

The cuDNN Graph API represents operations as nodes and tensors as edges.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Installation

NVIDIA provides cuDNN downloads and installation options including pip, Docker, and package managers.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Installation limit

Only one CUDA Toolkit version of cuDNN 9 can be installed at a time.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nvidia.com

Operations

It provides tuned implementations for convolution, attention, matrix multiplication, pooling, and normalization.Read 11 Oct 2026 · developer.nvidia.com

Requirements

cuDNN requires compatible operating system, CUDA, driver, and NVIDIA hardware versions, and the current compatibility details are in its support matrix.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nvidia.com

Supported platforms

The cuDNN backend is supported on Linux and Windows.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nvidia.com

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Where Specifiction places it

• Deep Learning Software#20 of 357.5