Caffe vs NVIDIA cuDNN
Caffe
caffe.berkeleyvision.orgNVIDIA cuDNN
developer.nvidia.comSide by side
| Figure | Caffe | NVIDIA cuDNN |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Deep Learning Software | 8.1 (#9) | 7.5 (#20) |
| License | Caffe is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. | Downloading and using cuDNN requires compliance with the NVIDIA Software License Agreement. |
| Purpose | Caffe is a deep learning framework developed by Berkeley AI Research and community contributors. | cuDNN is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks. |
| Support | The site directs usage and installation questions to the caffe-users group and bug reports to GitHub Issues. | NVIDIA provides cuDNN documentation and a developer forum from the product page. |
| Supported platforms | The installation guide lists Ubuntu, Debian, OS X, RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Windows, Docker, and AWS setup options. | The cuDNN backend is supported on Linux and Windows. |
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In their own words
Caffe
Caffe has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
NVIDIA cuDNN
NVIDIA cuDNN has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.