Image courtesy of Mihai Iliuta
The minimum system requirements for Maxwell Render V4 are as follows:
Windows
- Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, Windows Server 2012 or Windows 10
- 2 GHz Intel® Core2 processor, AMD Athlon 64 or better
- 1GB RAM minimum. 4 GB of RAM memory is highly recommended
- 400 MB available hard disk space for installation
- Accelerated OpenGL drivers
- 3 button mouse recommended
Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.11 and 10.12
- 1 GB RAM minimum. 4 GB of RAM memory is highly recommended
- 400 MB available hard disk space for installation
- 3 button mouse recommended
Linux 64
- x86_64 distribution with a 2.6 Kernel and glibc 2.5
- Tested in Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy), Fedora Core release 6 (Zod), CentOS release 6.5 (Final), Ubuntu precise (12.04.2 LTS)
- 2 GHz Intel® Core®2, AMD Athlon 64 or better
- 1 GB RAM minimum. 4 GB of RAM memory is highly recommended
- 400 MB available hard disk space for installation
- 3 button mouse recommended
GPU engine
- Graphics cards that support CUDA platform (Nvidia), running on Windows.
- Maxwell and Pascal architectures are supported (for reference you can check this link); it could work on Kepler architecture but it could be unstable and the experience won't be good.
Maxwell 4 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.
For a description of the best hardware configuration for your needs, see the System Specifications FAQ page.