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    10 months ago

    You can run GUI apps but I’m not sure about GPU workloads. Wouldn’t bare metal be the best for that?

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      10 months ago

      Wouldn’t bare metal be the best for that?

      Technically yes, but WSL2 is remarkably close to optimal in terms of throughput. Unlike WSL1 (a type 2 hypervisor), WSL2 requires Hyper-V (a type 1 hypervisor), meaning Windows also runs as a VM once it’s enabled. The Linux vGPU driver still needs to go through the Windows Nvidia driver as far as I know, but that is seldom the bottleneck for CUDA applications.