


Our performance testing of Windows 11’s Virtualization-Based Security feature shows a likely reason why those are the cutoffs. A similar list of supported AMD processors on Windows 11 indicate that the Ryzen 2000 series and above is supported. Windows 11 will require an 8th-gen Core CPU and above, according to the Windows 11 hardware requirements for Intel CPUs.

(Don’t worry about whether your PC includes a 64-bit chip, as virtually all PCs have included 64-bit processors since the 2000s.) There’s also a TPM requirement, which we’ll discuss below. According to Microsoft’s list of PC hardware requirements for Windows 11, this is the first time that you’ll need a multicore processor to run Windows, though it won’t need to be that powerful: just a 1GHz, 64-bit processor with 2 or more cores. Windows 11 system requirementsįor Windows 10, the PC hardware requirements necessary to run it are relatively tame: a 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB for a 64-bit version of the OS), 16GB of storage, and a display capable of 800×600.įor Windows 11, you’ll need a more sophisticated PC.
