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This page provides information on the minimum required hardware to run V-Ray.

Windows

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Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit versions of SketchUpFor additional information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article.

Processor

1st Gen Intel® Core™

Intel* 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with

SSE4.2 support (x64)

AVX2 support

RAM

Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 16 GB RAM

Hard Disk Spaceminimum 2GB, recommended 12GB (includes additional downloadable content)

TCP/IP

Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported

Operating System

Windows

® 8.1

10, Windows

10.

11

SketchUp

SketchUp

2017

2021,

2018

2022,

2019

2023,

2020

2024,

2021 

2025

GPU Support

Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least version 411.31
For more info, see GPU Rendering.

NVIDIA GPUs of Maxwell generation or later with the latest recommended video driver (for both CUDA and RTX - enabled cards)

V-Ray Vision requires a

Graphic

Graphics card

with DirectX

with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 and Shader Model 5.0 capabilities

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macOS

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Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.

Processor

1st Gen Intel® Core™ Intel 64, AMD64, ARM64 or compatible processor withSSE4.2 support (x64) AVX2 support

RAM

Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 16 GB RAM

Hard Disk Spaceminimum 2GB, recommended 12GB (includes additional downloadable content)

TCP/IP

Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported

Operating SystemApple® Apple® macOS 10.10.x 11.0 Big Sur or higher
SketchUpSketchUp 20172021, 2022, 20182023, 20192024, 2020 and 20212025
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 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).

 

For more information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article.

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In V-Ray 7, macOS Metal support has been added on Sonoma, Sequoia and newer OS.


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Support Customer support is available only for V-Ray 5 and V-Ray Next (V-Ray 4)6 and later. Earlier versions are no longer supported.

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Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.