This page provides details on the system requirements to install V-Ray Standalone.
Windows
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 | 4 GB RAM minimum, recommended 8 GB RAM or more Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements. |
| Operating System | Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 |
| USB Port | Required for customers using legacy hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 required for distributed rendering is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| HDD | 500 MB |
| GPU Support | NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.20. The minimum required compute capability is 5.2*; NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.28; V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta or Turing-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.20 |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
Linux
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.
Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
|---|---|
| RAM | 4 GB RAM minimum, recommended 8 GB RAM or more |
| Operating System | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.5 and 7.2 WS, or CentOS 6.5 and 7.2 |
| USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| HDD | 260 MB |
| GPU Support | NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s) with with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.20. The minimum required compute capability is 5.2*; NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.28; V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta or Turing-based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.20 |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
Mac OS X
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.
Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
|---|---|
| RAM | 4 GB RAM minimum, recommended 8 GB RAM or more |
| Operating System | Apple® Mac OS® X 10.6 Snow Leopard |
| USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| HDD | 500 MB |
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).