This page provides information on the minimum required hardware to run V-Ray.
Windows
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 SketchUp.
Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
RAM | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 16 GB RAM |
| Hard Disk Space | minimum 2GB, recommended 12GB (includes additional downloadable content) |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
Operating System | Windows® 8.1, Windows 10. |
SketchUp | SketchUp 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| GPU Support | Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with latest video driver or at least version 411.31
V-Ray Vision requires a Graphic card with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 and Shader Model 5.0 capabilities. |
macOS
Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.
Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
RAM | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 16 GB RAM |
| Hard Disk Space | minimum 2GB, recommended 12GB (includes additional downloadable content) |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| Operating System | Apple® macOS 10.10.x or higher |
| SketchUp | SketchUp 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 |
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.
Support is available only for V-Ray 5 and V-Ray Next (V-Ray 4). Earlier versions are no longer supported.