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

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 Please note that V-Ray for SketchUp version 2.0 and earlier are no longer supported.

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, 2022,

2018

2023,

2019

2024,

2020

2025

GPU Support

NVIDIA GPUs of 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.

Mac OS X

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

V-Ray Vision requires a Graphics card with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 and Shader Model 5.0 capabilities



macOS

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

Apple® Mac OS X 10.10.x 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020

Processor

1st Gen Intel® Core™ Intel 64, AMD64, ARM64 or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64)with 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® macOS 11.0 Big Sur or higher
SketchUpSketchUp 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
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 VIn 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).

 

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7, macOS Metal support has been added on Sonoma, Sequoia and newer OS.


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Customer support is available only for V-Ray 6 and later. Earlier versions are no longer supported.

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Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.