Support Matrix for NVIDIA NIM for Image OCR#

This documentation describes the software and hardware that NVIDIA NIM for Image OCR supports.

Models#

NVIDIA NIM for Image OCR supports the following models:

Model Name

Model ID

Publisher

Model Card

PaddleOCR

baidu/paddleocr

Baidu

Link

Supported Hardware#

PaddleOCR#

GPU

GPU Memory (GB)

Precision

A100 SXM4

40 & 80

FP16

H100 HBM3

80

FP16

H100 NVL

80

FP16

L40s

48

FP16

A10G

24

FP16

L4

24

FP16

GeForce RTX 4090 (Beta)

24

FP16

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation (Beta)

48

FP16

GeForce RTX 5080 (Beta)

16

FP16

GeForce RTX 5090 (Beta)

32

FP16

Non-optimized configuration#

The GPU Memory and Disk Space values are in GB; Disk Space is for both the container and the model.

GPUs

GPU Memory

Precision

Disk Space

Any single NVIDIA GPU that has sufficient memory, or multiple homogenous NVIDIA GPUs that have sufficient memory in total.

1

FP16

9

Software#

NVIDIA Driver#

Releases prior to 1.1.0 use Triton Inference Server 24.05. For Triton on NVIDIA driver support, refer to the Release Notes.

Release 1.1.0 uses Triton Inference Server 25.01. For Triton on NVIDIA driver support, refer to the Release Notes.

If issues arise when you start the NIM containers, run the following code to ensure that the latest NVIDIA drivers are installed.

curl -fsSL https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/gpgkey | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg \
 && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/nvidia-container-toolkit.list | \
   sed 's#deb https://#deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://#g' | \
   sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-container-toolkit
sudo nvidia-ctk runtime configure --runtime=docker
sudo systemctl restart docker

NVIDIA Container Toolkit#

Your Docker environment must support NVIDIA GPUs. Please refer to the NVIDIA Container Toolkit for more information.