This page gives some details on what hardware and operating systems are required for V-Ray to work properly.
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 | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM Larger cache memory, higher memory bandwidth and more cores are better. |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| Operating System (64-bit only) | Windows® 8.1 Professional, Windows® 10 Professional, and Windows® 11 |
| Houdini | V-Ray Next: Houdini 17.5 and above V-Ray 5: Houdini 18 and above |
GPU Support | NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Ampere- and Turing-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, Ampere or Turing-based NVIDIA card with the latest recommended video driver The minimum required compute capability is 5.2** |
* Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.
** CUDA compute capability and card reference
For additional information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article.
Linux
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 | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM Larger cache memory, higher memory bandwidth and more cores are better. |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| Operating System (64-bit only) | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.2+ WS, or CentOS 6.2 (64bit) |
| Houdini | V-Ray Next: Houdini 17.5 and above V-Ray 5: Houdini 18 and above |
| GPU Support | NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Ampere- and Turing-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, Ampere or Turing-based NVIDIA card with the latest recommended video driver The minimum required compute capability is 5.21 |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
For additional information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article.
macOS
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 | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM Larger cache memory, higher memory bandwidth and more cores are better. |
| TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| Operating System (64-bit only) | Apple® macOS® X 10.10.2+ |
| Houdini | V-Ray Next: Houdini 17.5 and above V-Ray 5: Houdini 18 and above |
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).
*Check also the Houdini system requirements page: https://www.sidefx.com/Support/system-requirements/
For additional information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article.
Note
- V-Ray Next supports Python 2 only. V-Ray 5 supports both Python 2 and Python 3.
- Python 2 is supported for Houdini 17.5 and above. Python 3 is supported for Houdini 18.5.351 and above.