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Processor

1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64)

RAM

4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file

TCP/IPOnly IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
Operating System (64-bit only)Windows ® 7 SP1, Windows ® 8,  Windows ® 8.1 Professional, and  Windows ® 10 Professional 
HoudiniHoudini 1617.5.473 0 and above
GPU Support

 NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s)

with latest video driver or at least version 411.31

with with latest recommended video driver or at least version 441.20;

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

The minimum required compute capability is 5.21


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Houdini Indie is also supported with the following limitations:

  • Maximum render size for animations is 4096 x 4096.
  • .vrscene export is not supported.

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Processor

1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64)

RAM

4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file

TCP/IPOnly IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
Operating System (64-bit only)Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 6.2+ WS,  Fedora™ 16+, or CentOS 6.2
HoudiniHoudini 1617.5.473 0 and above
GPU Support

NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based NVIDIA card(s)

with latest video driver or at least 410.48

 

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 with latest recommended video driver or at least 410.48;

NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver or at least version 440.36

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 410.48

The minimum required compute capability is 5.21

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MacOS

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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 and 4 GB swap minimum – recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file

TCP/IPOnly IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported
Operating System (64-bit only)Apple ® Mac OS ® X 10.10.2+
HoudiniHoudini 1617.5.473 0 and above

 

 

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 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).

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*Check also the Houdini system requirements page: https://www.sidefx.com/Support/system-requirements/   

For additional information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article.