End of Service
With the
SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2021
SP3 release, SOLIDWORKS Visualize no longer supports GPU acceleration of graphics cards based on the
Kepler generation (CUDA compute capability of version 3.X).
Before installing SOLIDWORKS Visualize and SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost, you
must have the following prerequisites for each machine:
- A
SOLIDWORKS Visualize serial number
- A
SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost serial number
Each computer running SOLIDWORKS Visualize or SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost
must meet these requirements:
- Windows® 10 (64-bit)
- Minimum:
Dual core
CPU.
Recommendation:
Quad
core.
- Minimum:
8GB RAM.
Recommendation:
16GB.
- Minimum:
2GB free disk space.
Recommendation:
5GB.
- Minimum:
2GB or more GPU RAM.
Recommendation:
4GB.
- HDR Light Studio connection: HDR Light Studio v5.3.3 or newer,
except v5.4
- 4GB of video memory or more required for the Denoiser
feature
For NVIDIA iRay GPU support:
- NVIDIA® graphics card: NVIDIA
Quadro®/NVIDIA GeForce®/Tesla™ with at least NVIDIA
Kepler™ chip; Dual-GPU setup with at least
NVIDIA Maxwell™ cards for the best experience
- NVIDIA driver support for CUDA®
10.2
or newer required
- Recommendation: NVIDIA driver version
441.22
(or newer)
- For
RTX
enabled Turing cards (Turing™ TU10x), a driver version of
442.19
(or newer)
For AMD ProRender GPU support:
- Recommendation: Radeon™ or
FirePro™ series workstation cards.
If an
applicable GPU is not found,
SOLIDWORKS Visualize defaults to the central processing unit (CPU) and
does
not use
the
installed graphics
card
for GPU-acceleration. Also, NVIDIA cards based on Fermi™ architecture no longer support GPU acceleration.
See SOLIDWORKS Hardware Certification for more
information on specific graphics cards and drivers.