V-Ray for SketchUp

The ultimate visualization solution for SketchUp artists and designers.

Overview

Summary

V-Ray is a powerful rendering plugin for SketchUp, crafted to help designers, architects, and creators transform their SketchUp models into lifelike visuals. 

From initial concept sketches to photorealistic renders, V-Ray supports you at every stage of the design process, enabling you to communicate your vision with clarity and impact. 

V-Ray for SketchUp
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Highlights

Real-time and photoreal rendering in one.
Power-up your SketchUp toolkit.

Power-up your SketchUp toolkit.

V-Ray and SketchUp are the perfect team. SketchUp is the world's most widely used 3D modeling software for architecture and design.

And V-Ray is the world's #1 rendering software for architectural visualization. Put them together and you've got the perfect combo to take your SketchUp model to the next level.

Create photorealistic renders.

With rendering features such as true-to-life lights, cameras, and materials, rendering with V-Ray is as real as it gets. For any project, you can see exactly how it will look. It's as close as you can come to the real thing before it’s built.

Bring your scenes to life.

Employ our curated collection of smart assets. Our Chaos Cosmos library includes high-quality models of furniture, accessories, vegetation, people and beautiful HDR skies so you can stage your architectural and interior designs in minutes.

Go beyond rendering.

V-Ray provides a comprehensive set of lighting, shading, rendering, and post-production tools, all within one platform, so you can maintain your creative flow without needing to switch between different applications.

Grow with V-Ray.

With versatile and intuitive tools designed for both beginners and advanced visualization artists, V-Ray adapts effortlessly to any project’s demands and scales with you as your needs evolve.

Work seamlessly in connected workflows.

Work seamlessly in connected workflows.

V-Ray is designed to work seamlessly with Enscape and Vantage, ensuring a seamless workflow between artists and designers using different tools.

Plus, you can leverage Chaos Cloud services, from design and review to interactive virtual tours and cloud rendering.

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V-Ray for SketchUp

V-Ray GPU Recommended System Requirements

Operating System

  • Microsoft Windows 10(version 2004 or newer), Windows 11 64-bit.
  • Linux 64-bit distributions with glibc 2.17 or later, V-Ray GPU performance is slightly better on Linux than on Windows.
  • For CUDA x86 mode, MacOS 11 Big Sur(or newer) is also supported.

GPU

  • V-Ray GPU performance scales nearly linearly across CUDA cores and core clock speed for a given GPU generation when running in either CUDA or RTX modes.
  • The scaling between GPU generations Pascal to Ada Lovelace.
  • V-Ray GPU performance scales nearly linearly across multiple GPUs.
  • While GPUs in a multi-GPU system can vary in their type, speed, and generation, the highest efficiency is usually found when combining GPUs of the same generation and of similar performance.​

GPU Memory

  • The entire scene being rendered (geometry, textures, buffers, etc.) must fully fit into GPU memory when using either CUDA or RTX mode.
  • When running in just CUDA x86 mode, the system’s RAM is used and paging is supported. If your scene exceeds your GPU’s memory, you can often still render the scene using CUDA x86 mode.
  • V-Ray GPU can pool memory across pairs of GPUs that support NVLink and have a physical NVlink bridge installed. For example, two cards having 24GB each can support scenes requiring 48GB when using NVLink. NVLink support can be found on the larger GPUs previous to the Ada generation. More about NVLink setup here.
  • When using multiple GPUs with different memory for rendering, the scene should fit into the GPU with the least amount of memory.

CPU

  • Intel 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support, PCIe 4.0(or newer) capable CPU and motherboard are recommended. Apple M1 & M2 processors are supported when running CUDA x86 on MacOS.
  • CUDA x86 mode performance scales nearly linearly across CPU cores and clock speed, including M1 & M2 processors from Apple.
  • When using both CUDA and CUDAx86 modes (aka hybrid GPU+CPU or XPU) the contribution of the CPU is similar to that of adding another (typically smaller) GPU to a multi-GPU configuration. CPUs with very high core counts (e.g., an AMD Threadripper) can often rival the speed of a GPU as shown in this graph.
  • For multi-GPU machines, it is recommended to have 6 physical cores per GPU. For example, a machine with 4 GPUs should have at least 24 physical cores to reach the optimal performance.

RAM

32 GB of system memory or more, the system memory should be equal or greater than 2x the GPU memory.

Supported Integrations

  • V-Ray GPU is found in all Chaos V-Ray integrations as well as V-Ray Standalone and in Chaos Cloud Rendering.
  • To use V-Ray GPU in V-Ray Standalone, use -rtEngine=5 for CUDA mode or -rtEngine=7 for RTX mode.
  • To use V-Ray GPU in Chaos Cloud, make sure the renderer is set to V-Ray GPU in your host DCC.

System Requirements for Windows

Operating System

Windows 10, Windows 11

Processor

Intel* 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support

RAM

Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 16 GB RAM

Hard Disk Space

Minimum 2GB, recommended 12GB (includes additional downloadable content)

TCP/IP

Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported

SketchUp

SketchUp 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

GPU Support

  • NVIDIA GPUs of Maxwell generation or later with the latest recommended video driver (for both CUDA and RTX – enabled cards)
  • V-Ray Vision requires a Graphics card with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 and Shader Model 5.0 capabilities

System Requirements for macOS

Operating System

Apple® macOS 10.15 Catalina or higher

Processor

Intel 64, AMD64, ARM64 or compatible processor with AVX2 support

RAM

Minimum 8 GB RAM, recommended 16 GB RAM

Hard Disk Space

Minimum 2GB, recommended 12GB (includes additional downloadable content)

TCP/IP

Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported

SketchUp

SketchUp 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

  • In V-Ray 7, macOS Metal support has been added on Sonoma, Sequoia and newer OS.
  • Customer support is available only for V-Ray 6 and later. Earlier versions are no longer supported.
  • Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors.
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