Hi the community, I’m Nathalie, I’m thinking about changing my MacBook Pro half 2012 for the new Macbook pro M1 to be able to use Vray on SketchUp 2021 (I’m actually on SketchUp pro 2018). If you have tested this, could you please tell me , how does the new graphic card on M1 perform VS the dedicat…

The M1 has an integrated GPU so it probably won’t be used by Vray. But the CPU is a beast and can hold it’s own against most CPU based rendering. That being said, it won’t compare well to a PC laptop equipped with a dedicated NVIDIA gpu.

I understand that currently V-ray doesn’t work on M1 Macs. Currently GPU rendering is for Nvidia cards only (=Windows only)

Is that true for AMD as well, that if you have a Mac from the last 8 years, or a PC that happens to have an AMD GPU, you only get software rendering?

[image] Anssi: currently V-ray doesn’t work on M1 Macs Chaos released a new vray for M1 a month ago and apparently it works well.

Yes, it works. One more thing, though, I had to download and install the license server seperately, via the System Preference > Security and Privacy > Launch This took me to the terminal, where I had to enter my password for the Mac-Account. Now, it’s running. @Colin Yes Cuda cores only, so NVID…

I read that was dropped by Nvidia as well.

don’t throw away older GPU’s yet. It should still work. It also works with RTX: [image] GPU Rendering - V-Ray for SketchUp - Chaos Help In time, Microsoft will come with a working ARM chip, as well, maybe with some NVIDIA gens

Thank you all! So what I understood from your contributions, it’s that I can buy the macbook pro M1 and use without big issues Sketchup with V Ray… I that right?

[image] monospaced: Chaos released a new vray for M1 a month ago and apparently it works well. OK - so I landed on an outdated help page…

There is so little info about this on the internet right now and most is hard to find at that. My best source of info on the subject has been this site actually, along with some YouTube videos I’ve seen. Even chaos doesn’t really mention it as you’ve seen, which is quite odd to me.

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