Howto: installation on Windows

I have GTX 1080ti on my windows box. I followed these instructions and I see that my Jupyter notebook runs slow. Is this common for Jupyter Notebook to run slow?

In fact, the learning is also slower.

Here’s a comparison (running first model from lesson1.ipynb)

Ubuntu Unix Box
RAM 32 GB
GPU GTX 970
Drive SSD

Example: Our first model (dogs vs cats) with no temporary files
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Windows Box:
RAM 64GB
GPU GTX 1080ti
Drive SSD

I have two GPUs
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Therefore, I set device as follows:
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When I run the same piece of code as above, it not only runs slowly but gives warning for the other GPU (device 1).

As you can see - this runs 4 times slower than GTX 970 (from the nvidia-smi output above I verified that the 1080i GPU was being used when this ran).

NOTE: To narrow down the issue, I ran the same lines of code in a “.py” on commandline. Here’s the performance if it helps.

Has anyone else seen this before? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks

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