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System Requirements - Arnold User Guide

In general, Arnold is going to work on pretty much any 64-bit system where Houdini, Maya, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, or Katana works. However, there are some minimum requirements:

  • Windows 10 or later, with the Visual Studio 2019 redistributable.
  • Linux with at least glibc 2.17 and libstdc++ 4.8.5 (gcc 4.8.5). This is equivalent to RHEL/CentOS 7.
  • macOS 10.13 or later.
  • x86-64 CPUs need to support the SSE4.1 instruction set. Apple Mac models with M series chips are natively supported.
  • GPU rendering and Optix denoising work on Windows and Linux only, and require an NVIDIA GPU with the Maxwell architecture or later.
  • Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
    • Intel Xe dedicated and integrated GPUs
    • NVIDIA GPUs using Turing or newer architectures

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