im looking to add cuda support in my lappy on the cheap

[vectoravtech]

Its for deep learning but I found EXP GDC Beast but im not sure if it will work so I saved my hardware info here https://pastebin.com/MrVMZ1dV I dont see an M2 connection on my lappy btw.

For instance the 60fps ai changing it to 130fps looks really cool but its only supported on cuda in this alpha version

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[Cheeseball]

What laptop do you have?

EDIT: Just saw your link. It doesn't have a NVIDIA card in it so you won't be able to code using CUDA. You can still use the HD Graphics 620 for OpenCL if you wish.

 

[silentbogo]

EXP GDC Beast may not work with your laptop.
I think there's an M.2 version of EXP GDC, but you need to triple-check the internals of your laptop, e.g. whether you have a spare M.2 slot, and whether it's NVME or SATA.
Not even sure if it works with M.2 WiFi slot, but either way, a slot needs to be sacrificed.
Also, there may be some complications with UEFI (hardware whitelist for PCIe devices etc.).
It'll be much easier just to build a low-budget PC out of used parts, or trade your HP Pavilion 17 for something with proper discrete graphics (even MX150 or GT940M is more than enough to get you started).

 

[vectoravtech]

on their discord the 24gb vram version was suggested so I searched and found
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB which is way out of my budget atm at 1600.00

 

[Flanker]

I was in similar shoes a few years ago. Only had a laptop, no dGPU, and eGPU is just laughably expensive. I ended up buying a Jetson to play with. Will a Jetson nano work for you?

 

[vectoravtech]

I guess it would work but using it as a business wouldn't be very feasible being slow https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cOy_s4LeT4yyrQ-ThCWHP9Ig62EnLPD9uboz7nqiAho/edit#gid=0