Nvidia Requirements

GPU raytracing in KeyShot Studio supports NVIDIA GPUs built on Maxwell microarchitecture and supports CUDA Compute Capability 5.2 or later found in the Quadro M6000 or GTX 980 and above. We recommend:

  • Graphics cards on the NVIDIA RTX platform with a minimum of 8 GB memory.
  • Driver Version: For both KeyShot Studio GPU on both Quadro and GeForce we recommend as a minimum 572.16 on windows and 572.16 on linux respectively.

Driver version


If the driver version for your graphic card is not up to date the GPU icon in the Ribbon will be disabled. You may find NVIDIA drivers here.

NVLink Multi-GPU Memory

KeyShot Studio GPU mode supports memory scaling for setups with multiple GPUs connected with NVIDIA NVLink. For example, two NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 GPUs will provide a combined 96 GB of GPU memory. When you have multiple GPUs connected with NVLink, you will see a difference in the available GPU Memory within the Heads Up Display in the Real-time view.