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This page provides information on what hardware and operating systems are required for V-Ray to work properly.

V-Ray 7 for 3ds Max supports 3ds Max 2020-2025.


Requirements

The requirements listed here are for the latest version of V-Ray for 3ds Max.

Please make sure that your system meets the requirements listed below before installing V-Ray.


Processor

Intel 641, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support

RAM

Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM

Operating systemMicrosoft® Windows 10 or Windows 11 operating system
Autodesk® 3ds Max

3ds Max®  2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 (64-bit)

USB portRequired for customers using legacy hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0
TCP/IPOnly IPv4 required for distributed rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported.
License Server6.2.0 or later
GPU Acceleration

NVIDIA CUDA with minimum required compute capability 5.22: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing-, and Ampere-based NVIDIA card(s);

NVIDIA RTX with compute capability 5.22: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver3; 

2GB VRAM

V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; 

NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing-, and Ampere-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver3

1 – Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.
2 – CUDA compute capability and card reference
3 – With V-Ray 7, using older drivers (less than 495.xx) on Ampere cards may lead to incorrect render results with RTX. More information on V-Ray GPU is available at Chaos.com.

 * See the blue note at the top of the page.

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