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Can I run Ollama?
Ollama by Ollama: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- Mac: Apple M series (CPU and GPU support) or x86 (CPU only)
- GPU
- Windows: NVIDIA drivers 551.61 or newer if you have an NVIDIA card (NVIDIA GPUs with compute capability 5.0+); AMD Radeon through ROCm v7 / HIP7-capable drivers or a Vulkan-capable driver. A GPU is optional: Ollama also runs on the CPU
- Storage
- 4 GB
- OS
- Windows: Windows 10 22H2 or newer, Home or Pro; Mac: macOS Sonoma (v14) or newer; Linux is also supported (see the Ollama documentation)
Recommended requirements
Not yet verified.
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Where these requirements come from
- Ollama (Documentation) — Ollama for Windows - system requirements · retrieved 10/7/2026
- minimum: At least 4 GB of space for the Windows binary install; models need tens to hundreds of GB on top. No RAM figure is published.
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