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RenderMan now requires CPUs capable of running the full SSE4.2 AVX instruction set or better. A minimum of 4GB of RAM is recommended.RenderMan XPU™ requires an NVIDIA graphics card required.  For rendering large scenes with many textures, you will need more RAM.

RenderMan XPU™ supports GPU acceleration on 64-bit Linux and Windows systems. GPU acceleration is supported on NVIDIA graphics cards from the Quadro, Tesla or Data Center GPU ranges, with the Maxwell architecture or later and CPUs capable of running the full SSE4.2 instruction set. A minimum of 11 GB of RAM VRAM is recommended and 24 GB of RAM VRAM is suggested for best performance. . A minimum of 16GB of system RAM is recommended for hybrid (CPU + GPU) processing. For more information on driver requirements, please consult the XPU Technical Specifications.

For utilizing the NVIDIA Optix For A.I. Denoising Denoiser in "it", Optix 7 supported hardware, Nvidia NVIDIA Maxwell and newer is required.

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Operating System

Linux: Compatible with CentOS/RHEL 7.2+

Windows: Compatible with Windows 10 and 8.1

Apple OSX: Compatible with 10.13, 10.14 and 10.15

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Katana: Compatible with 3.02+

Houdini: Compatible with 19, 18.05, 1718.50, and 17.0 5 production versions (Indie available on the recent release of 17.5 and 18 Houdini).  See the Installation of RenderMan for Houdini page for the specific list of production builds.

Blender: 2.83 LTS

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Building Plugins and Tools

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