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title: "System Requirements"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/APPSDK/132808876/System%20Requirements"
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Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements to start using V-Ray App SDK.     
 Note that V-Ray is only supported for **64-bit** operating systems.

 

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Processor | - <span style="color: #000000">Intel64</span><span style="color: #000000">[*](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/APPSDK/pages/132808876#note)</span><span style="color: #000000">/AMD64</span> <span style="color: #000000">processor with AVX2 support (Windows)</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Intel64/AMD64 processor with AVX2 support or 64-bit Arm v8.2A compatible processor (Linux)</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Intel64/AMD64 processor with AVX2 support or Apple silicon (M1, M2 or newer) (macOS)</span> |
| RAM | - <span style="color: #000000">Minimum: 8 GB RAM</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Recommended: 64 GB or more RAM</span>  
<span style="color: #000000">(Will vary with scene size and complexity.)</span> |
| GPU | - <span style="color: #000000">NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell generation or later with the </span>[latest recommended video driver](https://www.chaos.com/vray-gpu)
- <span style="color: #000000">NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with the </span>[latest recommended video driver](https://www.chaos.com/vray-gpu)
- <span style="color: #000000">V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">NVIDIA AI Denoiser: NVIDIA GPUs of Maxwell generation or later with the </span>[latest recommended video driver](https://www.chaos.com/vray-gpu)
- <span style="color: #000000">The minimum required compute capability is 5.2</span>[**](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/APPSDK/pages/132808876#note)
- [V-Ray GPU System Requirements](https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/19958460610577-V-Ray-GPU-Minimal-and-Recommended-system-requirements) |
| Operating System | - <span style="color: #000000">Microsoft® Windows 10, or Windows 11</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7 WS or CentOS 7 (Linux x64)</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8 WS or Rocky Linux 8 (Linux x64 and Linux arm64)</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Apple® macOS® 10.9 or higher (macOS x64)</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Apple® macOS® 10.14 or higher (macOS universal)</span> |
| Development Environment | - <span style="color: #000000">Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package, the </span><span style="color: #000000">[latest version](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170)</span><span style="color: #000000"> (Windows)</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Python 2.7, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 or 3.13, if you plan to use the V-Ray App SDK Python API</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">.NET Framework v4.0 or higher, if you plan to use the V-Ray App SDK .NET API</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">.NET Core 3.1 or higher, if you plan to use the V-Ray App SDK .NET Core API</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Node.js 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 or 22, if you plan to use the V-Ray App SDK Node.js API</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">Electron 5, 6, 11, 16, 23 or 27 , if you plan to use the V-Ray App SDK Electron API</span> |

> Macro (anchor)

<span style="color: #000000">* Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">**</span> [CUDA compute capability and card reference](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)