V-Ray for Nuke
System Requirements
Please make sure that your system fulfills the following requirements before installing V-Ray. Check the Nuke system requirements on The Foundry website for additional information.
Last updated 18 September 2025
Overview
Please make sure that your system fulfills the following requirements before installing V-Ray. Check the Nuke system requirements on The Foundry website for additional information.
Windows
Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit versions of Nuke.
Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™* or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
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 |
USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
GPU Support | NVIDIA GPUs of Maxwell generation or later 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
The following table shows the versions of The Foundry Nuke and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported.
Version of Nuke | Supported Operating System |
Version of Nuke | Supported Operating System |
Nuke 12 64-bit | Windows ® 10, Windows ® 11 |
Nuke 12.1 64-bit | Windows ® 10, Windows ® 11 |
Nuke 12.2 64-bit | Windows ® 10, Windows ® 11 |
Nuke 13 64-bit | Windows ® 10, Windows ® 11 |
Linux
Processor | 1st Gen Intel® Core™ or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support (x64) |
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 |
USB Port | Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 |
TCP/IP | Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported |
GPU Support | NVIDIA GPUs of Maxwell generation or later with the latest recommended video driver The minimum required compute capability is 5.2* . |
* CUDA compute capability and card reference
The following table shows the versions of The Foundry Nuke and operating systems on which V-Ray is supported.
Version of Nuke | Supported Operating System |
Version of Nuke | Supported Operating System |
Nuke 12 64-bit | CentOS 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 (64-bit) |
Nuke 12.1 64-bit | CentOS 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 (64-bit) |
Nuke 12.2 64-bit | CentOS 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 (64-bit) |
Nuke 13 64-bit | CentOS 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 (64-bit) |