This page provides information on what hardware and operating systems are required for V-Ray to work properly.
Overview
Please make sure that your system fulfills the requirements listed below before installing V-Ray.
V-Ray Next requires V-Ray License server 5.0 or higher.
Windows
| Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| Operating system | Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
| Blender | 2.79 |
| USB port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported. |
| GPU Support | Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least version 441.28 The minimum required compute capability is 5.2* . |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
Mac OS X
| Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
|---|---|
| RAM | 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| Operating system | Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.13, 10.12 |
| Blender | 2.79 |
| USB port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported. |
V-Ray GPU works only with C++/CPU devices under macOS. V-Ray GPU can still be used in distributed rendering where a macOS machine runs the CUDA engine on a CPU device together with Windows/Linux machine(s) running CUDA engine on GPU device(s).
Linux
| Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
| RAM | 4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file |
| Blender | 2.79 |
| USB port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| GPU Support | Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least version 441.28 The minimum required compute capability is 5.2*. |