Nuke Family tech specs.
Nuke®, Hiero and HieroPlayer support all major operating systems and have low hardware system requirements.
Supported operating systems
Linux 15.0 and onwards
• Rocky 9 (64-bit)
Note: Nuke requires libnuma to run under Linux distributions, the library is required by the Nablet H264 Codec SDK. The currently supported version of VFX Reference Platform includes library versions that are only compatible with Rocky 9.
Linux 14.1
CentOS 7.6 to 7.9 (64-bit)
Note: The currently supported version of VFX Reference Platform includes library versions that are only compatible with CentOS 7.6 to 7.9.
MacOS
• macOS Sequoia (15.x).
• macOS Sonoma (14.x)
Note: Nuke 15.0 includes native support for Apple's silicon hardware. Other OS versions may work, but have not been tested or qualified on.
For more information on Foundry products and supported macOS versions, see Foundry Knowledge Base article Q100592: https://support.foundry.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017988500-Q100592-Important-Announcement-Compatibility-of-Foundry-products-with-the-latest-Apple-macOS-updates-and-Apple-Silicon-processors
Note: Nuke 14.1 is supported under Rosetta emulation on Apple’s silicon hardware.
Windows
• Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64-bit)
Other OS versions may work, but have not been tested or qualified on.
Minimum hardware requirements
Processorx86-64 processor, such as Intel Core 2 Duo or later
Storage5.70 GB disk space available for caching and temporary files
RamAt least 8 GB RAM
DisplayAt least 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution and 24-bit color
Video cardGraphics card with at least 512 MB of video memory and driver support for OpenGL 2.0.*
*To enable optional GPU acceleration of Viewer processing, you need OpenGL 2.0 with support for floating point textures and GLSL.
Requirements for GPU Acceleration - Windows and Linux
If you want to enable Nuke to calculate certain nodes using the GPU, there are some additional requirements. See the Release notes for full details of requirements for GPU acceleration based on your Nuke version.
NVIDIA
An NVIDIA GPU with graphics drivers capable of running CUDA 11.8, or above. A list of the compute capabilities of NVIDIA GPUs is available at https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus.
Note: We recommend using the latest graphics drivers, where possible, regardless of operating system.
AMD
The following GPUs with an appropriate driver are supported. See the release notes for details on support available in specific versions of Nuke.
• AMD Radeon PRO W7900
• AMD Radeon PRO W6600
• AMD Radeon PRO W6800
• AMD Radeon Pro W5700
• AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
For information on the recommended driver for each GPU, see https://www.amd.com/en/support.
Note: Other AMD GPUs may work, but have not been fully tested.
Requirements for GPU Acceleration - MacOS
See the release notes for full details of requirements for GPU acceleration based on your Nuke version.
Mac GPUs
Apple silicon integrated GPUs are supported as are AMD GPUs on the following Intel CPU Macs.
- Any late 2013 Mac Pro onward (including 2019 Mac Pro),
- Mid-2015 MacBook Pros onward, and
- Late 2017 iMac Pros onward.
All supported Mac Pros will include a multi-GPU support option, where applicable. When enabled in the preferences, GPU processing is shared between the available GPUs for extra processing speed. Bitwise equality between GPU and CPU holds in most cases, but for some operations, there are limitations to the accuracy possible with this configuration.
WARNING: Although AMD GPUs are enabled on other Mac models, they are not officially supported and used at your own risk.
GPU requirements for the Machine Learning Toolset
Training using the CopyCat node requires an NVIDIA GPU, with compute capability 3.5 or above; or MacOS Apple silicon integrated GPUs.
If an appropriate GPU is not available, Inference and other machine learning plug-ins can run on the CPU with significantly degraded performance.
Tested Workstation hardware
The following system configurations running Rocky9, Windows 10 and Windows 11 have been tested with Nuke15.2v1 and Nuke 16.0v1.
SystemDell Precision 7820 Workstation
Processor(s)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6234 3.2 GHz, 3.7 GHz Turbo, 8C, 10.4GT/s 3UPI, 24.75M Cache, HT (130W) DDR4-2666
Storage1 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD
RAM96 B (4x16 GB) 2666 MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC
GPUNVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB
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SystemLenovo ThinkStation P620 Workstation
ProcessorAMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 3.5 GHz 32-core
Storage1 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD
RAM64 GB DDR4 3200 MHz RDIMM ECC (4 x 16 GB)
GraphicsNVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 8 GB
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SystemHP Z4 Workstation
ProcessorIntel Xeon W-2295 CPU
Storage1 TB PCIE NVME SSD
RAM64 GB RAM
GPUNVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB
SystemLenovo P7 Workstation
ProcessorIntel Xeon W9-3495x 1.9 GHz, 4.4 GHz Turbo, 56C, 105M Cache, HT (350W) DDR5-4800
Storage1 TB M.2 PCIE NVMe SSD
RAM96 GB (4x16 GB) 4800 MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC
GraphicsNVIDIA Quadro RTX A4500 8 GB
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The following system configuration running macOS Sonoma (14.x) and macOS Sequoia(15.x) has been tested with Nuke15.2v1 and Nuke 16.0v1
SystemApple MacBook Pro
ProcessorApple M3 Pro
Storage1 TB SSD Storage
RAM32GB
GraphicsApple M3 Pro
Nuke Studio tested hardware
Nuke Studio is currently being tested and we will be providing system specifications soon. If you have any questions about compatible hardware in the meantime, please contact Support.