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title: "System Requirements"
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Windows Processor  – Intel 1  64, AMD64 or compatible processor with  AVX2  support RAM  –  8 GB RAM or 8 GB swap minimum – recommended 64 GB RAM or more (The actual amount required will vary with scene requirements.) Operating system  – Microsoft ®  Windows 10, or Windows 11 operating system GPU Acceleration  –  NVIDIA CUDA: Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-,  Turing-, Ampere-, and Blackwell-based NVIDIA card(s) with the  latest recommended video driver NVIDIA RTX: RTX cards with the  latest recommended video driver V-Ray Production Denoiser: AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2 NVIDIA AI Denoiser: Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, Ampere, or  Blackwell-based  NVIDIA card with the  latest recommended video driver The minimum required compute capability is 5.2 2 License Server  – 6.2.0 or later macOS macOS version  –  11.0 or newer Processor    Up to Blender 4.5  – Apple  ®  M1 or later Blender 5.0  – only ARM processors RAM  – Recommended 8GB or more, 8GB or more swap file. Minimum 4GB and 4GB swap file. USB Port  –  Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0 TCP/IP  – Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported GPU Acceleration  – Apple ® M1 or later License Server  – 6.2.0 or later Linux Processor: Intel® 64, AMD64, or compatible processor with AVX2 support (x64). RAM  – 8 GB RAM and 8 GB swap minimum. Recommended 16 GB or more RAM, 16 GB or more swap file. USB Port  – Required for hardware lock, preferably USB 2.0. TCP/IP  – Only IPv4 is supported. IPv6 is currently not supported. GPU Support: NVIDIA CUDA:  NVIDIA GPUs of Maxwell generation or later with the  latest recommended  video driver. NVIDIA RTX:  RTX cards with the  latest recommended  video driver.  V-Ray Production Denoiser:  AMD or NVIDIA GPU supporting OpenCL 1.2.  NVIDIA AI Denoiser:  NVIDIA cards of the Maxwell generation or later with the  latest recommended  video driver. The minimum required compute capability is 5.2 2 . Notes 1 –  Windows 11 is required for running Intel Alder Lake processors. 2  –  CUDA compute capability and card reference .