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System requirements | Substance 3D Viewer

Your computer must meet the minimum technical specifications outlined below to run and use Substance 3D Viewer (Beta).

Supported systems

Windows

Minimum

Recommended

Operating System

Windows 10 64-bit (Version 22H2)

Windows 11 64-bit (Version 23H2)

Processor

Multi-core Intel® or AMD processor

  • Intel Core i5
  • AMD Ryzen 5

Multi-core Intel® or AMD processor

  • Intel Core i7 or higher
  • AMD Ryzen 7 or higher

Graphics Card

  • NVIDIA GTX 1650 or AMD RX 580
  • Updated drivers from GPU manufacturer
  • 8 GB of GPU memory
  • NVIDIA RTX 2080 or RTX 3000
  • Updated drivers from GPU manufacturer
  • 16 GB of GPU memory

RAM

8 GB

16 GB or more

Hard Disk Space

1 GB of available hard-disk space

10 GB of available hard-disk space

macOS

Minimum

Recommended

Operating System

macOS 13 Ventura

macOS 14 Sonoma

Processor

Multi-core Intel® or Apple Silicon processor

  • Intel® Core i5
  • Apple M1

ARM-based Apple Silicon processor

  • Apple M2 Pro

Graphics Card

AMD Radeon Pro

N/A

RAM

8 GB

16 GB or more

Hard Disk Space

1 GB of available hard-disk space

10 GB of available hard-disk space

Unsupported systems

  • Windows ARM architecture is currently unsupported.
  • Remote desktops are not supported.
  • Virtual machines are not supported.
  • Windows Server is not supported.

Raytracing requirements

Raytracing leverages either the CPU (slower) or GPU (faster) depending on available hardware.

CPU raytracing is available on all devices.

GPU raytracing is available on Mac Silicon (M1+), and on Windows on NVIDIA GPU (GTX 1660 SUPER or above)

Language versions available for Substance 3D Viewer (Beta)

Substance 3D Viewer is available in the following languages:

English

German

French

Japanese

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