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RenderMan XPU™ is a hybrid rendering engine that can target multiple hardware devices. It can run in three modes:
- CPU only
- GPU only
- CPU + GPU
See below for more details of the supported hardware and platforms.
Hardware and platform requirements
CPU
RenderMan XPU requires a CPU that supports the AVX instruction set or better.
A minimum of 16GB of RAM is recommended for hybrid (CPU + GPU) processing.
GPU
For GPU acceleration, RenderMan XPU™ supports NVIDIA graphics cards from the Quadro, Tesla or Data Center GPU ranges, with the Pascal architecture or later. XPU will run on consumer cards – however, we will only fix issues that are reproducible on Quadro, Tesla, or Data Center GPUs.
See Operating Systems for graphics driver requirements.
We recommend a minimum of 24 GB of VRAM for dealing with complex assets.
Operating Systems
RenderMan XPU is currently supported on 64-bit Linux and Windows systems with appropriate NVIDIA graphics drivers installed.
Linux requirements
- CentOS/RHEL 7
- NVIDIA graphics driver version 525.60.13 or above. We recommend using the latest version wherever possible.
Windows requirements
- Windows 10
- NVIDIA graphics driver version 527.41 or above. We recommend using the latest version wherever possible.
macOS
- Not currently supported