We need the appropriate cuDNN and this kind of import error occurred by missing the right version.
See this release note. TensorFlow 1.3.0 (and other prebuilt binaries) have been built with cuDNN 6 and TensorFlow 1.4 with cuDNN 7.
cuDNN installer are downloadable from here. On 2017.08.30, they provide the following versions.
- cuDNN 7.0 for CUDA 9.0 RC
- cuDNN 7.0 for CUDA 8.0
- cuDNN 6.0 for CUDA 8.0
- cuDNN 6.0 for CUDA 7.5
- cuDNN 5.1 for CUDA 8.0
- cuDNN 5.1 for CUDA 7.5
- ...
