System Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Autodesk® 3ds Max 2016® or later
• Windows® 7 64-bit Professional operating system
• 64-bit Intel or AMD multi core processor
• 4GB Ram
• 2GB free disk space for installation
• 3GB free disk space if downloading Material Libraries
• NVIDIA GPU with the following minimum specifications*:
  • CUDA compute capability 3.0 and higher
  • Driver needs to support CUDA 9.0 or higher. For Windows, this depends upon having NVIDIA Quadro driver version 384 or later

Recommended Requirements

• Autodesk® 3ds Max 2018® with latest service pack
• Windows® 8 or Windows® 7 64-bit Professional operating system
• 64-bit Intel or AMD multi core processor
• 8GB Ram
• 2GB free disk space for installation
• 3GB free disk space if downloading Material Libraries
• 2x NVIDIA GPUs with the following minimum specifications*:
  • CUDA compute capability 3.0 and higher
  • Driver needs to support CUDA 9.0 or higher

NVIDIA CUDA GPU reference

A list of compatible GPUs can be found here.

CPU only mode

Iray for 3ds Max will run without a GPU, but for best performance we recommend using GPUs. If your GPU does not meet the minimum requirements then Iray will automatically use CPU rendering.

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