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Main Render features

Feature

V-Ray CPU

V-Ray GPU

Interactive rendering

(tick)

(tick)

Progressive image sampler

(tick)

(tick)

Bucket image sampler

(tick)

(tick)

Resumable rendering

(minus)

(minus)

V-Ray Denoiser

(tick)

(tick)

NVIDIA AI Denoiser1

(tick)

(tick)

Intel Open Image Denoise

(tick)

(tick)

(always calculated by CPU)

Viewport rendering (VPR)

(tick)

(tick)

Viewport region rendering

(tick)

(tick)

Batch rendering

(tick)

(tick)

Cloud rendering

(tick)

(tick)

Batch render in Cloud

(tick)

(tick)

Distributed rendering via Swarm

(tick)

(tick)

Rendering in Grasshopper

(tick)

(tick)

Unbacked Grasshopper geometry

(tick)(tick)

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Other Render features

FeatureV-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
VRayLensEffects (VFB)
(tick)
(tick)
Antialiasing(tick)(tick)
Adaptive Lights
(tick)
(tick)
VFB
(tick)
(tick)
Render Elements 4
(tick)
(tick)
Anisotropy
(tick)
(tick)
Aerial Perspective(tick)(tick)
Environment Fog(tick)(tick)
ContoursOutlines(tick)(minus)
Photon Mapped Caustics(tick)(minus)
Post Effect Color Corrections(tick)(tick)
GPU Memory Management(minus)(tick)
RPC 5(tick)(tick)

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Geometry

FeatureV-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
Triangle meshes
(tick)
(tick)
VRayProxy
(tick)
(tick)
Alembic via proxy
(tick)
(tick)
Subdivisions
(tick)
(tick)
Displacement
(tick)
(tick)
VRayFur
(tick)

(tick)

Infinite plane
(tick)
(tick)
VRayClipper
(tick)

PARTIAL

(Only Section Plane)

V-Ray Scene(tick)(tick)
V-Ray Scatter(tick)(tick)
V-Ray Decal(tick)(tick)

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Lights

FeatureV-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
SunLight
(tick)
PARTIAL
(Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported)
Rectangle Light
(tick)
PARTIAL
(Decay control not supported)

Sphere Light

(tick)
PARTIAL
(Decay control not supported)
Spot Light
(tick)
PARTIAL
(Affect Diffuse and Specular controls
and Inverse cube decay not supported)
IES Light(tick)

(tick)

Omni Light(tick)

PARTIAL
(Affect Diffuse/Specular controls and
Inverse cube decay not supported)

Mesh Light(tick)

PARTIAL
(Texture map and Decay control not supported)

Dome Light
(tick)
(tick)
Directional Light(tick)PARTIAL
(Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported)

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Materials

FeatureV-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
Blend
(tick)

(tick)

Car Paint
(tick)
(tick)
Emissive

(tick)

PARTIAL
(without Emit on Back Side; Color*Opacity always on)

Generic (V-Ray Material)
(tick)

(tick)
(without Roughness, Refraction Glossiness and Fog Scattering)

Override
(tick)
PARTIAL
(without Environment)
Two Sided
(tick)
PARTIAL
(without Multiply By Front diffuse; Force Single Sided always on)
Wrapper
(tick)
PARTIAL

(without Ignore Objects in Secondary, Caustics Affect)
Subsurface Scattering
(tick)
(minus)
Bump
(tick)
(tick)

VRscan

(tick)(tick)
Hair(tick)(tick)
ToonOutline Override(tick)

(minus)

Multi Material(tick)(tick)

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Textures

FeatureV-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
Bitmap6(tick)(tick)
(without filtering and Environment texture placement)
Color(tick)(tick)
Temperature(tick)(tick)
Gradient(tick)(tick)
(without Environment texture placement)
Sky(tick)(tick)
(without Caustics)
Color Correction(tick)(tick)
Spline Curve(tick)(tick)
Bezier Curve(tick)(tick)

Simple Mix

(tick)

(tick)

Mix (Value)(tick)(tick)
Mix (Operator)(tick)(tick)
Mix (Map)(tick)(tick)
(except Mix Curve)
Multi-Sub3(tick)(tick)
Tri-Planar(tick)(tick)
Checker(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Grid(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Tiles(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Cloth(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Leather(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Bulge(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
UVW(tick)(tick)
(without Environment)
Water 8(tick)(tick)
(without Environment)
Noise A(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Noise B(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Cellular(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Marble(tick)(tick)
(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Splat(tick)(tick)
(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Smoke(tick)(tick)
(except Environment texture placement)
Stucco(tick)(tick)
(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Rock(tick)(tick)
(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Granite(tick)(tick)
(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Speckle(tick)(tick)
(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Edges(tick)(tick)
Falloff 2 (tick)(tick)
Fresnel(tick)(tick)
VRayDirt 3(tick)
(without Ignore Self Occlusion)
(tick)
(without Ignore Self Occlusion)
Curvature(tick)(tick)
UVW Placement(tick)PARTIAL
(except Environment and partial support of bitmap textures)

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Render Elements

FeatureV-Ray CPUV-Ray GPU
Atmosphere

(tick)

(tick)

Background(tick)

(tick)

Bump Normals

(tick)

(tick)

Caustics

(tick)
(without Filtering control)

(minus)
ContoursOutlines(tick)(minus)
Cryptomatte

(tick)
(without Filtering control)

(tick)

Denoiser(tick)

(tick)

Diffuse(tick)

(tick)

DR Bucket

(tick)

(tick)

ExtraTex

(tick)

(tick)

Geometry Normals

(tick)

(tick)

Global Illumination

(tick)

(tick)

Lighting(tick)

(tick)

Lighting Analysis

(tick)

PARTIAL

(Luminance only)

Light Mix(tick)(tick)
Material ID Color

(tick)

(tick)

Material ID Number(tick)(tick)
Material Random Color(tick)(tick)
Matte Shadow(tick)(minus)
MultiMatte(tick)

(tick)

Object ID(tick)

(tick)

Raw GI(tick)

(minus)(tick)

Raw Light(tick)

(minus)(tick)

Raw Reflection(tick)

(minus)(tick)

Raw Refraction(tick)

(minus)(tick)

Raw Shadow(tick)

(minus)(tick)

Raw Total Light(tick)(minus)(tick)
Reflection(tick)(tick)
Reflection Filter(tick)(tick)
Refraction(tick)(tick)
Refraction Filter(tick)(tick)
Render ID(tick)(tick)
Sample Rate(tick)(tick)
Self Illumination(tick)(tick)
Shadows(tick)(tick)
Specular(tick)(tick)
Subsurface Scattering(tick)(minus)
Total Light(tick)(minus)
Z-Depth(tick)(tick)

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