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 | Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support |
|---|---|
| RAM | 8 GB RAM Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements. |
| Operating System | Windows 8.1 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 | 0.9 GB Hard Disk Space |
| GPU Support | NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing- and Ampere-based NVIDIA card(s) with the latest recommended video driver; NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver; V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing or Ampere-based NVIDIA card with the latest recommended video driver The minimum required compute capability is 5.2* |
* 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 | Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support |
|---|---|
| RAM | 8 GB RAM; recommended 64 GB RAM |
| Operating System | CentOS 7.2 |
| USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| HDD | 1 GB Hard Disk Space |
| GPU Support | NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing- and Ampere-based NVIDIA card(s) with the latest recommended video driver; NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with the latest recommended video driver V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing or Ampere-based NVIDIA card with the latest recommended video driver The minimum required compute capability is 5.2* |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
macOS
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 | Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support |
|---|---|
| RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| Operating System | Apple® Mac OS® X 10.9 Mavericks or later |
| USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| HDD | 0.7 GB Hard Disk Space |
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).