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RenderMan XPU™ supports GPU acceleration on 64-bit Linux and Windows systems. GPU acceleration is supposrted supported on NVIDIA graphics cards from the Quadro, Tesla or Data Center GPU ranges, with the Maxwell architecture or later. A minimum of 11 GB of VRAM is recommended and 24 GB of 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 A.I. Denoiser in "it", Optix 7 supported hardware, 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 3.12+

Houdini: Compatible with 19, 18.5, 18.0, and 17.5 production versions (Indie available on the recent release of 17.5, 18.0, and 18.5 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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