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.
- On Linux, we recommend 560.35.03 or higher drivers.
- On Windows, we recommend 560.76 or higher drivers.
- Intel OIDN GPU support is limited to:
- Intel Xe dedicated and integrated GPUs
- NVIDIA GPUs using Turing or newer architectures