Maxwell Render V5 System Requirements

Maxwell Render V5 System Requirements

The minimum system requirements for Maxwell Render V5 are as follows:

Windows

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows 11.
  • 2 GHz Intel® Core2 processor, AMD Athlon 64 or better
  • 1GB RAM minimum. 16GB of RAM memory is highly recommended
  • 2GB available hard disk space for installation
  • Accelerated OpenGL drivers
  • 3 button mouse recommended

MacOS 

  • MacOS 10.11 +
  • 1 GB RAM minimum. 16GB of RAM memory is highly recommended
  • 2GB available hard disk space for installation
  • 3 button mouse recommended
Linux 64
  1. x86_64 distribution with a 2.6 Kernel and glibc 2.5
  2. Tested on Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy), Fedora Core release 6 (Zod), CentOS release 6.5 (Final), Ubuntu precise (12.04.2 LTS)
  3. 2 GHz Intel® Core®2, AMD Athlon 64 or better
  4. 1 GB RAM minimum. 16 GB of RAM memory is highly recommended
  5. 1.7 GB available hard disk space for installation
  6. 3 button mouse recommended

GPU engine

  • Graphics cards that support CUDA platform (Nvidia), running on Windows.
  • Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing and Ampere architectures are supported
  • The Drivers should be up to date

Denoiser

  • Denoiser is capable of running on CPU or GPU, with Nvidia, AMD and Intel graphics cards; it works with CUDA (Nvidia) and also can work using OpenCL either in GPU (Nvidia, AMD or Intel) or CPU.
  • When using GPU, we recommend having a graphics card with at least 2.5GB. This number is actually dependent on frame size, 2.5GB is for 2k square imagery.
  • When using Nvidia CUDA, the drivers should support at least CUDA 7.0
  • When using AMD, the Catalyst driver should be up to date.
  • The Denoiser will first try to use CUDA, if it doesn't find a compatible card, it will fallback to OpenCL GPU (usually with AMD and Intel cards) and then OpenCL with CPU.

 

Maxwell is compiled for 64-bit ONLY. It requires a 64-bit machine and a 64-bit operating system. Plugins are available only for 64-bit builds of their respective host platforms.


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