V-Ray for 3ds Max
System Requirements
This page provides information on what hardware and operating systems are required for V-Ray to work properly.
Last updated 1 September 2026
This page provides information on what hardware and operating systems are required for V-Ray to work properly.
Requirements
The requirements listed here are for the latest version of V-Ray for 3ds Max.
Please make sure that your system meets the requirements listed below before installing V-Ray.
Processor | Intel 64 1, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support |
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Processor | Intel 64 1, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support |
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RAM | Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 64 GB RAM |
Operating system | Microsoft® Windows 10 or Windows 11 operating system |
Autodesk® 3ds Max | 3ds Max® 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027 (64-bit) |
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. |
License Server | 6.2.0 or later |
V-Ray GPU System Requirements
GPU - NVIDIA | Requirement |
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GPU - NVIDIA | Requirement |
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GPU Acceleration | NVIDIA CUDA with minimum required compute capability 5.2 2: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing-, Ampere-, and Blackwell-based NVIDIA card(s); Ada Lovelace / RTX 40 series; NVIDIA RTX with compute capability 5.2 2: RTX cards with latest recommended video driver 3; 2GB VRAM V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2; NVIDIA AI Denoiser: NVIDIA GPUs of Maxwell generation or later with the latest recommended video driver 3 |
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Supported GPU Architectures | RDNA 2, RDNA 3, RDNA 3.5, RDNA 4 |
Recommended Architecture | RDNA 3 or newer |
Minimum Driver Version | AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.2.2 |
Supported GPU families | AMD Radeon RX, selected AMD Radeon PRO, and AMD Radeon AI PRO GPUs |
Notes
1 – Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.
2 – CUDA compute capability and card reference
3 – With V-Ray 7, using older drivers (less than 495.xx) on Ampere cards may lead to incorrect render results with RTX. More information on V-Ray GPU is available at V-Ray GPU System Requirements.
* See the blue note at the top of the page.