Nuke Family tech specs.
Nuke®, Hiero and HieroPlayer support all major operating systems and have low hardware system requirements.
Supported operating systems
Linux
Nuke15-16
• 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 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
Windows
• Windows 11 (64-bit)
Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14 2025. For more information visit https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro
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.
SystemLenovo 30HH-ISV0US
Processor(s)AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX-96Cores
Storage1TB NVMe SSD
RAM128GB
GPUNVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB
.
SystemHP Z2 Tower G1i Workstation
ProcessorIntel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 285K (3.70GHz)
Storage1TB NVMe SSD
RAM64GB
GraphicsNVIDIA RTX A4000 Ada Generation 20GB
.
SystemHP Z8 G5 Workstation
ProcessorIntel Xeon Gold 6448Y
Storage4TB NVMe SSD
RAM128GB
GPUNVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB
.
The following system configuration running macOS Sonoma (14.x) and macOS Sequoia(15.x) has been tested with Nuke15.2v1 and Nuke 16.0v1
SystemMac Studio Ultra
ProcessorM2 Ultra
Storage4TB
RAM128GB
GraphicsApple M2 Ultra
.
SystemMac Pro
ProcessorM2 Ultra
Storage4TB
RAM128GB
GraphicsApple M2 Ultra
.
SystemApple Macbook Pro
ProcessorApple M3 Pro
Storage1TB
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.