Nuke Family tech specs.

Nuke®, Hiero and HieroPlayer support all major operating systems and have low hardware system requirements.

Supported operating systems

Linux

Nuke15-17

• 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 9.0.

MacOS

• macOS Tahoe (26.x)

• macOS Sequoia (15.x)

Note: Other OS versions may work, but have not been tested or qualified on.

Windows

• Windows 11 (64-bit)

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

Supported operating system compatibility list for Nuke Q100651

Tested baseline hardware

The following hardware has been identified as known to work for running Nuke, providing a stable and reliable environment for standard compositing tasks. These systems are a proven baseline for a functional user experience.

For more demanding workloads more RAM and higher spec CPUs/GPUs are recommended.

Please refer to the Tested Workstation hardware.

Apple silicon

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Macbook Pro M1

• 2021

• 16GB RAM

Mac Mini (M1)

• 2020

• 16GB RAM

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Windows laptops

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ThinkPad P15

• 2020

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10850H CPU @2.70GHZ

• NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

• 16GB RAM

HP ZBook Studio 16 inch G9

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H 2.40 GHz

• NVIDIA Quadro RTX3000

• 16GB RAM

Tested Workstation hardware

The following system configurations running Rocky9, and Windows 11 have been tested with Nuke 16.1.v1 and Nuke 17.0v1.

SystemLenovo 30HH-ISV0US

Processor(s)AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

Storage1TB NVMe SSD

RAM128GB

GPUNVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB

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SystemLenovo Thinkstation P8

ProcessorRyzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores

Storage1TB NVMe SSD

RAM128GB RAM

GPURTX A4000 GPU

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SystemHP Z2 Tower G1i Workstation

ProcessorIntel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 285K (3.70GHz)

Storage1TB NVMe SSD

RAM64GB

GraphicsNVIDIA RTX A4000 Ada Generation 20GB

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SystemHP Z8 G5 Workstation

ProcessorIntel Xeon Gold 6448Y

Storage4TB NVMe SSD

RAM128GB

GPUNVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB

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The following system configuration running macOS Sequoia(15.x) and macOs Tahoe (26.x) has been tested with Nuke 16.1v1 and Nuke 17.0v1

SystemMac Studio Ultra

ProcessorM2 Ultra

Storage4TB

RAM128GB

GraphicsApple M2 Ultra

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SystemMac Pro

ProcessorM2 Ultra

Storage4TB

RAM128GB

GraphicsApple M2 Ultra

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SystemApple Macbook Pro

ProcessorApple M3 Pro

Storage1TB

RAM32GB

GraphicsApple M3 Pro

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 12.8, or above.

View the full list of NVIDIA GPU compute capabilities, here

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, here

Note: Other AMD GPUs may work, but have not been fully tested.

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.