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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


Processor1st 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)

Blender2.79
USB portRequired for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0
TCP/IPOnly 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


Processor1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64)
RAM4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file
Operating systemApple ® Mac OS ® X 10.13, 10.12
Blender2.79
USB portRequired for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0
TCP/IPOnly 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


Processor1st 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

Blender2.79
USB portRequired for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0
TCP/IPOnly 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