Lumion 2023 finally supports ray tracing. While it's a great piece of software that's very popular with architects, this feature in the 2023 release is still a huge leap forward and requires you to update your hardware, especially the GPU. In this article, we take a look at the list of graphics cards required for Lumion 2023.
1. Graphics card requirements
Note that Lumion 2023 is equipped with ray tracing and to run it you need an Nvidia RTX series.
Super complex project:
Ultra-complex projects often have high-end features such as:
- Detailed cities, airports or stadiums. A detailed multi-storey building with many models and HD textures for its interior. Detailed landscapes made using high-end Lumion features such as Fine Detail Nature and 3D Grass .
For example, for an extreme project like the one above, we need a system that:
- At least 20,000 PassMark points . Examples: NVIDIA RTX A6000 (48GB), NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 (48GB), RTX4090 (24GB), RTX3090 (24GB). For detailed cities or airports, you should use a graphics card with at least 32GB of video memory. This will help with loading the scene due to larger video memory. For multi-story buildings or detailed landscapes, a graphics card with 24GB of VRAM should suffice. To keep pace with your graphics card, your CPU should have the highest possible GHz per thread and a single thread CPUMark score of 2500 or higher .
complex project:
Complex projects tend to be somewhere in between, not that complex, but not that simple either:
- A small park or part of a city made using OpenStreetMap or other simple models. A large house with a detailed interior, consisting of multiple models and HD textures, but mostly a single residential or commercial model with a single landscape part from the Lumion library , using some high end models such as fine detail nature .
The suggested requirements for these projects are as follows:
- At least 14,000 PassMark points . Examples: Quadro RTX 5000, Quadro RTX 6000, Quadro RTX 8000, GeForce RTX 2080(Ti), GeForce RTX 3060, GeForce RTX 3070 (Ti), GeForce RTX 3080 (Ti), RTX 4070 Ti. 8 GB+ graphics memory. To keep pace with your graphics card, your CPU should have the highest possible GHz value per thread and a single thread CPUMark score of 2500 or higher
Simple project:
Simple projects usually have simple functions such as:
- Small park or residential building with Lumion model and textures.
Such projects require minimum requirements:
- At least 7,000 PassMark points . Example: GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 2060 SUPER, RTX 2070, RTX 2070 SUPER, RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 3050, RTX 3060, Quadro RTX 3000, Quadro RTX 4000, Quadro RTX 5000 4 GB+ graphics memory . Rendering movies at 4K resolution (3840×2160 pixels) requires at least 6GB of graphics card memory . The CPU should have the highest possible GHz value per thread and a single thread CPUMark score of 2000 or higher .
You should note that this configuration cannot handle Lumions' high-end features such as 3D Grass . If you want high-end features, you'll have to upgrade your hardware.
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