Good day everybody. I’ve a 2021 16″ MacBook professional with 64gb reminiscence. I’m questioning if anybody can clarify whether it is attainable to make use of V-Ray for my Mac. I learn it’s attainable however will solely be capable to render with CPU. I don’t perceive what which means although. Please assist! Thanks!
New Macs that use the “Apple Silicon” processors (M1, M2…) use the primary processor for all the things they usually don’t have a separate graphics “card”. On the PC, V-ray can use Nvidia graphics playing cards to hurry up the rendering course of so relying on the complexity of your fashions, V-Ray may very well be considerably sooner when getting access to a high-end Nvidia graphics card. Check it if attainable.
Hello @caitlinc – Following up on @Anssi’s extra detailed clarification, sure you need to use V-Ray for Mac utilizing CPU. I render on my iMac Professional and 16″ MBP and it runs simply wonderful.
@Anssi okay thanks for the reason. I’ll give it a shot!
Thanks for letting me know. I’m glad to listen to that!
Good day @eric-s,
While you say that one can use V-Ray for Mac, and that you simply render utilizing your iMac Professional, and 16″ MBP. How lengthy does it take vs utilizing a devoted GPU (equivalent to RTXs)?
Thus far, my analysis informs me that it’s attainable (software program) albeit slower than utilizing RTX playing cards; and even CPU gasp. However devoted GPU’s ({hardware}) is perfect (pace, CUDA cores).
I ran the Vray trial on my a lot older 2017 MBP 4-core 3.1MHz i7 with 16GB of RAM. It made me select Vray over the opposite renderers i had testdriven (Thea and Enscape). I nonetheless went with Vray, so 
Since my in-built gpu (guessing yours can be comparable) isn’t nvidia, you cant use the optimisation for it. In different phrases, the rendering is dealt with by the cpu fully.
I’m anticipating 64GB to make an actual distinction between our two macs so I believe you’ll run it decently.
I did determine to buy a computer although, for 2 causes: I cant improve my MBP and I really need that NVIDIA perk!
Hope that helps you.
