Repository: pytorch
Issue: torch.cuda.is_available() returns True even if the CUDA hardware can't run pytorch
Labels: module: cuda,triaged

### 🐛 Describe the bug

My desktop has an ancient GPU that cannot be used with PyTorch. Nevertheless `torch.cuda.is_available()` returns True; I get an error later on when I try to run any computation.

I would have hoped to receive False from `torch.cuda.is_available()`.

I'm sorry that this example is rather long; it arose when I tried running the Quickstart tutorial and I don't yet know enough about PyTorch to strip this down to a minimal example.

```python
torch.cuda.is_available()
```
```
True
```
```python
device="cuda"
# Define model
class NeuralNetwork(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.flatten = nn.Flatten()
        self.linear_relu_stack = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(28*28, 512),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.Linear(512, 512),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.Linear(512, 10)
        )

    def forward(self, x):
        x = self.flatten(x)
        logits = self.linear_relu_stack(x)
        return logits

model = NeuralNetwork().to(device)
```
```
/home/peridot/software/miniconda3/envs/ml-torch/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py:132: UserWarning: 
    Found GPU0 Quadro K600 which is of cuda capability 3.0.
    PyTorch no longer supports this GPU because it is too old.
    The minimum cuda capability supported by this library is 3.7.
    
  warnings.warn(old_gpu_warn % (d, name, major, minor, min_arch // 10, min_arch % 10))
```
If I then go on to do an actual calculation I get a RuntimeError:
```python
loss_fn = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=1e-3)

def train(dataloader, model, loss_fn, optimizer):
    size = len(dataloader.dataset)
    model.train()
    for batch, (X, y) in enumerate(dataloader):
        X, y = X.to(device), y.to(device)

        # Compute prediction error
        pred = model(X)
        loss = loss_fn(pred, y)

        # Backpropagation
        optimizer.zero_grad()
        loss.backward()
        optimizer.step()

        if batch % 100 == 0:
            loss, current = loss.item(), batch * len(X)
            print(f"loss: {loss:>7f}  [{current:>5d}/{size:>5d}]")

# Download training data from open datasets.
training_data = datasets.FashionMNIST(
    root="data",
    train=True,
    download=True,
    transform=ToTensor(),
)

train_dataloader = DataLoader(training_data, shuffle=True)
            
train(train_dataloader, model, loss_fn, optimizer)
```
```
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[3], line 54
     45 training_data = datasets.FashionMNIST(
     46     root="data",
     47     train=True,
     48     download=True,
     49     transform=ToTensor(),
     50 )
     52 train_dataloader = DataLoader(training_data, shuffle=True)
---> 54 train(train_dataloader, model, loss_fn, optimizer)

Cell In[3], line 32, in train(dataloader, model, loss_fn, optimizer)
     29 X, y = X.to(device), y.to(device)
     31 # Compute prediction error
---> 32 pred = model(X)
     33 loss = loss_fn(pred, y)
     35 # Backpropagation

File ~/software/miniconda3/envs/ml-torch/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py:1194, in Module._call_impl(self, *input, **kwargs)
   1190 # If we don't have any hooks, we want to skip the rest of the logic in
   1191 # this function, and just call forward.
   1192 if not (self._backward_hooks or self._forward_hooks or self._forward_pre_hooks or _global_backward_hooks
   1193         or _global_forward_hooks or _global_forward_pre_hooks):
-> 1194     return forward_call(*input, **kwargs)
   1195 # Do not call functions when jit is used
   1196 full_backward_hooks, non_full_backward_hooks = [], []

Cell In[3], line 17, in NeuralNetwork.forward(self, x)
     15 def forward(self, x):
     16     x = self.flatten(x)
---> 17     logits = self.linear_relu_stack(x)
     18     return logits

File ~/software/miniconda3/envs/ml-torch/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py:1194, in Module._call_impl(self, *input, **kwargs)
   1190 # If we don't have any hooks, we want to skip the rest of the logic in
   1191 # this function, and just call forward.
   1192 if not (self._backward_hooks or self._forward_hooks or self._forward_pre_hooks or _global_backward_hooks
   1193         or _global_forward_hooks or _global_forward_pre_hooks):
-> 1194     return forward_call(*input, **kwargs)
   1195 # Do not call functions when jit is used
   1196 full_backward_hooks, non_full_backward_hooks = [], []

File ~/software/miniconda3/envs/ml-torch/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/container.py:204, in Sequential.forward(self, input)
    202 def forward(self, input):
    203     for module in self:
--> 204         input = module(input)
    205     return input

File ~/software/miniconda3/envs/ml-torch/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py:1194, in Module._call_impl(self, *input, **kwargs)
   1190 # If we don't have any hooks, we want to skip the rest of the logic in
   1191 # this function, and just call forward.
   1192 if not (self._backward_hooks or self._forward_hooks or self._forward_pre_hooks or _global_backward_hooks
   1193         or _global_forward_hooks or _global_forward_pre_hooks):
-> 1194     return forward_call(*input, **kwargs)
   1195 # Do not call functions when jit is used
   1196 full_backward_hooks, non_full_backward_hooks = [], []

File ~/software/miniconda3/envs/ml-torch/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/linear.py:114, in Linear.forward(self, input)
    113 def forward(self, input: Tensor) -> Tensor:
--> 114     return F.linear(input, self.weight, self.bias)

RuntimeError: CUDA error: CUBLAS_STATUS_ALLOC_FAILED when calling `cublasCreate(handle)`
```

### Versions

Collecting environment information...
/home/peridot/software/miniconda3/envs/ml-torch/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py:132: UserWarning: 
    Found GPU0 Quadro K600 which is of cuda capability 3.0.
    PyTorch no longer supports this GPU because it is too old.
    The minimum cuda capability supported by this library is 3.7.
    
  warnings.warn(old_gpu_warn % (d, name, major, minor, min_arch // 10, min_arch % 10))
PyTorch version: 1.13.1
Is debug build: False
CUDA used to build PyTorch: 11.6
ROCM used to build PyTorch: N/A

OS: Ubuntu 22.10 (x86_64)
GCC version: (Ubuntu 12.2.0-3ubuntu1) 12.2.0
Clang version: Could not collect
CMake version: Could not collect
Libc version: glibc-2.36

Python version: 3.10.8 (main, Nov 24 2022, 14:13:03) [GCC 11.2.0] (64-bit runtime)
Python platform: Linux-5.19.0-28-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.36
Is CUDA available: True
CUDA runtime version: 11.6.124
CUDA_MODULE_LOADING set to: LAZY
GPU models and configuration: GPU 0: Quadro K600
Nvidia driver version: 470.161.03
cuDNN version: Could not collect
HIP runtime version: N/A
MIOpen runtime version: N/A
Is XNNPACK available: True

Versions of relevant libraries:
[pip3] mypy==0.991
[pip3] mypy-extensions==0.4.3
[pip3] numpy==1.24.1
[pip3] torch==1.13.1
[pip3] torchaudio==0.13.1
[pip3] torchvision==0.14.1
[conda] blas                      1.0                         mkl  
[conda] ffmpeg                    4.3                  hf484d3e_0    pytorch
[conda] mkl                       2021.4.0           h06a4308_640  
[conda] mkl-service               2.4.0           py310h7f8727e_0  
[conda] mkl_fft                   1.3.1           py310hd6ae3a3_0  
[conda] mkl_random                1.2.2           py310h00e6091_0  
[conda] numpy                     1.23.5          py310hd5efca6_0  
[conda] numpy-base                1.23.5          py310h8e6c178_0  
[conda] pytorch                   1.13.1          py3.10_cuda11.6_cudnn8.3.2_0    pytorch
[conda] pytorch-cuda              11.6                 h867d48c_1    pytorch
[conda] pytorch-mutex             1.0                        cuda    pytorch
[conda] torchaudio                0.13.1              py310_cu116    pytorch
[conda] torchvision               0.14.1              py310_cu116    pytorch

cc @ngimel