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renderformer-swin-large

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renderformer-swin-large is an open-weight image model from microsoft. renderformer-v1.1-swin-large (FP32) weighs 967 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • RenderFormer-V1.1-Large is an image-to-image model developed by Microsoft that uses a transformer-based approach for neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination.
  • The model contains 483 million parameters and is distributed under the MIT license.

Summary of the microsoft/renderformer-v1.1-swin-large model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bymicrosoft
Released2025-05-15
Parameters483M
VRAM967 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for renderformer-v1.1-swin-large (FP32)

967 MBweights, file size
5.0 GBworking memory, one 1024² image
537 MBruntime overhead
CardOne imageMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What microsoft says about renderformer-swin-large

Read the model card

This repo contains the weights of RenderFormer-V1.1-Large.
For more information, see the paper.

Quick Start

Please refer to our Github Repo and Paper.

Citation

If you find our repository useful, please cite our paper in your work:

@inproceedings {zeng2025renderformer,
    title      = {RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination},
    author     = {Chong Zeng and Yue Dong and Pieter Peers and Hongzhi Wu and Xin Tong},
    booktitle  = {ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Papers},
    year       = {2025}
}

Data Summary

https://huggingface.co/microsoft/renderformer-v1.1-swin-large/blob/main/data_summary_card.md

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Running it yourself

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