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

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


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

TCP/IP

Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported

Operating System

Windows® 8.1, Windows 10.

SketchUp

SketchUp 2016 (64-bit), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

GPU SupportMaxwell-, 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


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

TCP/IP

Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported

Operating SystemApple® mac OS 10.10.x or higher
SketchUpSketchUp 2016 (64-bit), 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.