3D / CAD
Can the MacBook Pro (16-inch, M4 Max, 2024) run Blender?
Minimum requirements
Likely meets minimum requirements
Likely meets recommended requirements
Operating system — supported (Windows 8.1 (64-bit) or later, macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, or a Linux distribution with glibc 2.28+ (64-bit)); versions are shown, not compared. RAM — needs 8 GB; it depends on the configuration bought (up to 128 GB). Processor — no Mac processor restriction is stated. Graphics — needs 2 GB of video memory; Apple silicon uses unified memory.
How this was judged
Graphics chips are compared by class (an 8-tier rubric), not by benchmark score. The same tier as the requirement is only ever “likely”. Read the tier rubric and its limitations.
- Blender system requirements · publisher requirements
Published requirements
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
Sources and limits
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- Blender Foundation — Blender — System Requirements · retrieved 9/19/2026
The laptop’s figures come from its verified specification page. Requirements are the publisher’s and can change. This compares the laptop with the publisher’s listed native requirements — it does not account for emulation, translation layers or cloud gaming. See how we verify the specs.
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