Blender system requirements 2023 should be as follows.
Blender Minimum system requirements
- 64-bit quad core CPU with SSE2 support
- 8 GB RAM
- Full HD display
- Mouse, trackpad or pen+tablet
- Graphics card with 2 GB RAM, OpenGL 4.3
- Less than 10 year old
Blender Recommended system requirements
- 64-bit eight core CPU
- 32 GB RAM
- 2560×1440 display
- Three button mouse or pen+tablet
- Graphics card with 8 GB RAM
Blender Graphics card requirements
Always make sure to install the latest drivers from the graphics card manufacturer website. These requirements are for basic Blender operation, Cycles rendering using the GPU has higher requirements.
NVIDIA
GeForce 400 and newer, Quadro Tesla GPU architecture and newer, including RTX-based cards, with NVIDIA drivers (list of all GeForce and Quadro GPUs)
AMD
GCN 1st gen and newer. Since Blender 2.91, Terascale 2 architecture is fully deprecated, try using 2.90 (albeit not supported, it might still work) [list of all AMD GPUs]
Intel
Haswell architecture and newer. [list of all Intel GPUs]
macOS
Version 10.13 or newer for Intel processors on supported hardware. Version 11.0 for Arm-based processors (Apple Silicon).
Blender Operating systems
Blender is cross-platform, it runs on every major operating system:
- Windows 8.1, 10, and 11
- macOS 10.13 Intel · 11.0 Apple Silicon
- Linux
Blender 3.1 system requirements
- Windows, macOS, Linux OS
- 64-bit dual-core 2Ghz CPU with SSE2 support
- 8 GB RAM Recommended 32 GB
- 1280×768 display or higher
- Mouse, trackpad or pen+tablet
- Graphics card minimum with 2 GB RAM, OpenGL 3.3
Blender 32 system requirements
- Operating system: Windows, macOS, Linux
- RAM: 8 GB Recommended 32 GB
- 64-bit quad core CPU with SSE2 support
- Full HD display
- Mouse, trackpad or pen+tablet
- Graphics card with 2 GB RAM, OpenGL 4.3
