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title: "System Requirements"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/VNS/115605846/System%20Requirements"
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This page provides details on the system requirements to install V-Ray Standalone.


## **Windows**

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Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray.

> ⚠️ V-Ray is only supported for 64 bit operating systems.

| **Processor** | Intel 64<sup>[*](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VS4EDIT/pages/110362801)</sup>, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support |
| --- | --- |
| **RAM** | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM<br><span style="color: #222222">Actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.</span> |
| **Operating System** | Windows 10, and Windows 11 |
| **USB Port** | Required for <span style="color: #000000">customers using legacy </span>hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
| **TCP/IP** | Only IPv4 <span style="color: #222222">required for distributed rendering </span>is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| **HDD** | 0.9 GB Hard Disk Space |

* Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.


## **Linux**

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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** | Intel64/AMD64 processor with AVX2 support or 64 bit Arm v8.2A[*](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VS4EDIT/pages/110362801) compatible processor |
| --- | --- |
| **RAM** | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM<br>Larger cache memory, higher memory bandwidth and more cores are better. |
| **Operating System** | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7.2 WS, or Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux® 8, or CentOS 7.2 (64bit) |
| **USB Port** | <span style="color: #000000">Required for hardware lock, </span>preferably USB 2.0 |
| **TCP/IP** | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| **HDD** | 1 GB Hard Disk Space |

*** **ARM support is introduced with V-Ray Standalone 6.20.22.



## **macOS**

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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 processor with AVX2 support, or ARM[*](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VS4EDIT/pages/110362801), Apple silicon (M1, M2) |
| --- | --- |
| **RAM** | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM<br>Larger cache memory, higher memory bandwidth and more cores are better. |
| **Operating System** | Apple® Mac OS® X 10.9 Mavericks or later |
| **USB Port** | <span style="color: #000000">Required for hardware lock, </span>preferably USB 2.0 |
| **TCP/IP** | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
| **HDD** | 0.7 GB Hard Disk Space |

> Macro (anchor)

* ARM support is introduced with V-Ray Standalone 5.20.00.

> ⚠️ 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).



### **V-Ray GPU System Requirements**

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** **> Macro (anchor)



** [CUDA compute capability and card reference](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)

 > Macro (anchor)

 

*** [CUDA compute capability and card reference](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus)