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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 required.  For rendering large scenes with many textures, you will need more RAM.

RenderMan XPU™ requires an NVIDIA graphics card XPU™ supports GPU acceleration on 64-bit Linux and Windows systems. GPU acceleration is supposrted 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 A.I. Denoiser in "it", Optix 7 supported hardware, NVIDIA Maxwell and newer is required.

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