System Requirements
Please contact us for detailed recommendations or if there are any doubts which hardware to chose:
Platform Windows
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MS Windows Vista x64, x32
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MS Windows XP x64, XP x32
Minimum System Requirements
(for evaluation with small datasets only)
- MS Windows XP x64/Vista x64/Windows 7 x64
- 3 GHz CPU (Intel or AMD) dual core with 64 bit support
- Monitor: 1280 X 1024 pixels or better
Recommended System
- MS Windows Professional XP x64/Vista x64/Windows 7 x64
- 3.3 GHz CPU (Intel) 4 core
- ATI Radeon HD 7950 3072 MB
- Multiple Fast Hard Disks or SSDs
- Monitor: 1280 X 1024 pixels or better
High End System
- MS Windows Professional XP x64/Vista x64/Windows 7 x64
- 3.4 GHz CPU (Intel) 4 core
- ATI RADEON HD 7970 3072 MB
- Multiple Fast Hard Disks or SSD
- Monitor: 1280 X 1024 pixels or better
Platform MAC
Minimum System Requirements
(for evaluation with small datasets only)
- CPU: Intel with 1 GHz clock speed
- Nvidia GeForce 6600 128 MB
- Monitor: 1280 X 1024 pixels or better
Recommended System
- CPU: Intel with more than 2.8 GHz clock speed, 4 core
- Graphics: Board based on ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1024 MB on-board memory
- Monitor: 1280 X 1024 pixels or better
High End System
- CPU: Intel with more than 3 GHz clock speed, 2 x 4 core.
- Graphics: Board based on ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1024 MB on-board memory
- Multiple Fast Hard Disks or SSDs
- Monitor: 1280 x 1024 pixels or better
Tested Graphics Accelerator Boards
Untested graphics boards often cause instability and lead to decreased Imaris performance. It is recommended to install and use the latest drivers specified on website(s) of the graphic board's vendor(s).
Multi-GPU solutions for graphics boards (SLI and Crossfire) are NOT recommended for use with Imaris due to performance decrease and system instabilities.
Tested as working:
Nvidia Game boards
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (slow triangle rendering)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 330M
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
- NVIDIA GeForce 9800
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800
- NVIDIA GeForce 7950
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 (Go)
- NVIDIA GeForce 7800 (Go)
- NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 512 MB
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (Go)
Professional Quadro boards
- NVIDIA Quadro K5000
- NVIDIA Quadro 6000
- NVIDIA Quadro 4000
- NVIDIA Quadro 600
- NVIDIA Quadro K3000M
- NVIDIA Quadro 3000M
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 (slow)
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 (slow)
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 M
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500 M
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 770 M
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 700
ATI Game Boards
- ATI RADEON HD 7970
- ATI RADEON HD 7950
- ATI RADEON HD 6970
- ATI RADEON HD 5870
- ATI RADEON HD 5850
- ATI RADEON HD 5670
- ATI RADEON HD 4870 (X2)
- ATI RADEON HD 4650
- ATI RADEON HD 3870 (X2)
- ATI RADEON X1950
- ATI RADEON X1900
- ATI RADEON X1800
- ATI RADEON X850
- ATI RADEON X800
- ATI RADEON X700
Professional ATI boards
- ATI FirePro W5000
- ATI FirePro V7900
- ATI FirePro 3D V3800
- ATI FireGL V7350
- ATI FireGL V7300
- ATI FireGL V5600
The professional boards are recommended only when stereo displays will be attached. Otherwise the game boards are the better choice because of their extremely better price performance ratio. Newer boards are shown on top of each list.
Not working:
- NVIDIA GT335M in combination with INTEL HD
- NVIDIA GeForce 4 series
- NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
- NVIDIA GeForce 8500
- NVIDIA Quadro NVS all series
- NVIDIA TESLA all series
- ATI RADEON series with no character before the number e.g. ATI RADEON 9500, ATI RADEON 8500 ...
- ATI Fire GL V5100 and older
- ATI Fire GL X series
- ATI RADEON HD 5970
- Intel on board graphics ALL
- Matrox all series
- Diamond Fire GL all series
If a graphics board is not listed it does not mean that it works. If it is not listed on this page it means Bitplane does not know.
Multi Core/Processor Support
Imaris has extended support for multi core/processor machines since 6.2.0. Most image processing functions are multithreaded. Tests are done with up to 8 cores where Imaris still scales nicely. ImarisBatch scales even better because each job runs in its own Imaris.
Last Update Apr 2013
