Runs anywhere.
Blender is cross-platform, it runs on every major operating system:
- Windows 8.1, 10, and 11
- macOS 10.15 Intel · 11.0 Apple Silicon
- Linux distributions using glibc 2.28 or newer
All efforts to make Blender work on specific configurations are welcome, but we can only officially support those used by active developers.
For Windows there is an installer available if you wish to add an icon on the desktop, associate .blend file extensions, etc.
Ready for action.
Whether it’s on a USB stick, sitting on a folder on your desktop, or fully installed, Blender runs out of the box.
- No installation needed.
- No Internet connection required.
Truly portable, take it with you wherever you go!
Hardware Requirements
Minimum
- 64-bit quad core CPU with SSE2 support
- 8 GB RAM
- Full HD display
- Mouse, trackpad or pen+tablet
- Graphics card with 2 GB RAM, OpenGL 4.3
- Less than 10 year old
Recommended
- 64-bit eight core CPU
- 32 GB RAM
- 2560×1440 display
- Three button mouse or pen+tablet
- Graphics card with 8 GB RAM
Supported Graphics Cards
Always make sure to install the latest drivers from the graphics card manufacturer website. These requirements are for basic Blender operation, Cycles rendering using the GPU has higher requirements.
NVIDIA
GeForce 400 and newer, Quadro Tesla GPU architecture and newer, including RTX-based cards, with NVIDIA drivers (list of all GeForce and Quadro GPUs)
AMD
GCN 1st gen and newer. Since Blender 2.91, Terascale 2 architecture is fully deprecated, try using 2.90 (albeit not supported, it might still work) [list of all AMD GPUs]
Intel
Haswell architecture and newer. [list of all Intel GPUs]
Apple
- Apple Silicon: macOS version 11.0 or newer
- Intel: macOS version 10.15 or newer
Previous Versions Requirements
Windows
- Since Blender 2.93 LTS Windows 7 is no longer supported. Microsoft discontinued Windows 7 support in January 2020
- Blender 2.76 and earlier require OpenGL 1.4 graphics cards and Windows XP or later.
macOS
- Blender 2.9x to 3.4 require macOS 10.13+
- Blender 2.8x require macOS 10.12+
- Blender 2.79 require macOS 10.9+
All
- Blender 2.79 runs on all systems that support OpenGL 2.1 and above, with recent graphics drivers.
- Blender 2.76 and earlier require OpenGL 1.4 graphics cards.