Official Windows 11 requirements have arrived: Here are the compatible Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel CPUs

Microsoft has finally announced Windows 11 after watching a leaked re-create of information technology broadcast the spider web for days. But leaked, unfinished builds don't mean annihilation when it comes to figuring out what hardware is needed to run the finished, official product. Thankfully, Microsoft has at present outlined exactly what processors you'll need when it comes to running the official release of Windows eleven this fall, or the Insider release in a little over a calendar week.

The listing of processors is extensive, although we're not sure if it'due south also entirely inclusive. Microsoft has divided it into three split lists: one for AMD, one for Intel, and one for Qualcomm.

Here's a link to the AMD list. Processors ranging from AMD Ryzen iii 3250Cs to AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WXs are supported. Hither'due south Intel's list, which covers merely near every relevant or semi-relevant Intel chip on the planet. Qualcomm's list limits things to a comparatively tiny seven compatible Snapdragon processors (which is all of them except the first-gen Snapragon 835).

Microsoft's list doesn't seem to get dorsum to Intel's sixth Gen 'Skylake' series of chips, which came out around 2022. That too includes some of Microsoft's own Surface devices like Surface Book i and Surface Pro iv, which is interesting.

Microsoft has also published a hard floor and soft floor breakdown of what's required to run Windows 11. The hard floor is as follows:

CPU: Core >= ii and Speed >= 1 GHz

System Retentivity: TotalPhysicalRam >= 4 GB

Storage: 64 GB

Security: TPM Version >= 1.ii and SecureBootCapable = True

Smode: Smode is false, or Smode is true and C_ossku in (0x65, 0x64, 0x63, 0x6D, 0x6F, 0x73, 0x74, 0x71)

And here's the soft floor:

Security: TPMVersion >= 2.0

CPU Generation

These aren't tech specs to be ignored. Every bit stated by Microsoft in its postal service outlining the 2 floors, "in order to run Windows 11, devices must meet the post-obit specifications. Devices that do non meet the hard floor cannot be upgraded to Windows xi, and devices that meet the soft flooring will receive a notification that upgrade is not advised."

Information technology sounds like for older devices, regardless of the CPU, equally long as they run into the 'hard floor' requirement (including TPM 1.ii), they can still get Windows xi. So, yep, lots of wiggle room.

Of form, we should point out that this is Windows meaning there is e'er a workaround. But considering your figurer'southward hardware may not officialy support Windows xi does non necessarily mean yous can get it to install some other way. Besides, Microsoft could loosen these restrictions based on feedback, so stick a pin in this, and we'll see where we stand in October.

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