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Can I run Blender?
Blender by Blender Foundation: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- 4 cores with SSE4.2 support
- GPU
- 2 GB VRAM with OpenGL 4.3, Vulkan 1.3
- RAM
- 8 GB
- OS
- Windows 8.1 (64-bit) or later, macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, or a Linux distribution with glibc 2.28+ (64-bit)
Recommended requirements
- CPU
- 8 cores
- GPU
- 8 GB VRAM
- RAM
- 32 GB
- OS
- Windows 11, macOS 26 (Tahoe), or a current Linux distribution
Check your laptop
Which laptops can reach 8 GB of RAM?
291 of 317 laptops in our database support at least 8 GB of RAM (the model’s documented maximum). That is capacity, not what ships in the box — check your exact configuration, and see whether your model’s RAM can be upgraded.
Where these requirements come from
- Blender Foundation — Blender — System Requirements · retrieved 9/19/2026
- minimum: No official minimum storage requirement is published. macOS minimum requires Apple Silicon (Blender 5.0+; Blender 4.5 LTS is the last release supporting Intel Macs).
- recommended: No official recommended storage requirement is published.
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