by Chaos·Rendering
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Chaos V-Ray Premium ranks sixth in the Toolfarm library. It earns its place as a rendering package that pairs the V-Ray engine with a large asset and material library plus AI tools for Cinema 4D.
Chaos V-Ray Premium delivers the V-Ray rendering engine inside Cinema 4D, an engine Chaos describes as award-winning. The package extends beyond rendering with a content and AI bundle aimed at 3D and architectural visualization work.
Alongside the renderer, the Premium tier includes up to 18,500 high-quality 3D assets and materials, an enhanced realistic material library, and an Arch Viz deep dive series. It carries five times as many Chaos credits as the Solo tier and adds Veras AI and Cloud Collaboration. AI features cover up to 25 AI-enhanced scenes, up to 50 Nano Banana 2 1K images, and up to 50 AI videos.
The current V-Ray for Cinema 4D build is 7.20.00, released 9 December 2025. GPU acceleration runs on NVIDIA CUDA and RTX cards, and on macOS GPU rendering is performed on CPU devices only. Supported systems span Windows 10 and 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, CentOS 7 and later, and macOS 10.10 and later.
Chaos V-Ray Premium is best for cinema 4D artists rendering with V-Ray, including architectural visualization work.
Chaos V-Ray Premium is completely free to download and use.
Chaos V-Ray Premium is built on V-Ray for Cinema 4D, with the current build listed as 7.20.00, released on 9 December 2025. This sits in the V-Ray 7 release line, which first arrived for Cinema 4D on 15 January 2025 and reached Update 2 on 9 December 2025. Chaos maintains a version table and posts release notes on its news blog, so checking the developer's page is the best way to confirm the latest build and details for each update.
Chaos V-Ray Premium supports GPU acceleration through NVIDIA CUDA on Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta- and Turing-based cards, with a minimum required compute capability of 5.2, or through NVIDIA RTX cards running a recent recommended driver. On macOS, GPU rendering is performed on CPU devices only. The requirements also note video driver version 441.20 or later for CUDA and 441.28 or later for RTX. For the full, current hardware requirements that apply to your setup, the developer's page is the place to check.
Chaos V-Ray Premium lists support for Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 WS, CentOS 7 and later, and macOS 10.10 and later. Minimum hardware includes a 64-bit processor with SSE4.2 support, 4 GB of free RAM, and 2 GB of free disk space, with 8 GB of RAM recommended. Because V-Ray covers many hosts and updates often, Chaos keeps current details on its news blog, so confirm the specifics for your Cinema 4D setup on the developer's page.
Chaos V-Ray Premium is listed as free here, though licensing for V-Ray can change over time. Chaos offers different tiers, with the Premium tier noted as carrying five times as many Chaos credits as the Solo tier. For current licensing terms, tier differences, and how to obtain a license, check the developer's page for the most accurate and up-to-date information.
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