Windows 11 is coming this year as a free update for Windows 10 users, but most likely for many of you the hardware will not enable it.
Microsoft has released hardware requirements and Windows 11 will only support 8th generation Intel processors, including Pentium and Celeron.
Potentially millions of Windows 10 devices will be left with the full support of Windows 11 including devices like Microsoft’s Surface Studio 2.
Older devices will be alerted during the installation of Windows 11 but will not be hindered from installing it.
Windows 11 also officially supports AMD Ryzen 2000 or higher and second-generation EPYC processors.
The full list of support processors can be found below:
Windows 11 support for Intel processors
- Intel 8 Gen (Coffee Lake)
- Intel 9 Gen (Coffee Lake Refresh)
- Intel 10 Gen (Comet Lake)
- Intel 10 Gen (Ice Lake)
- Intel 11 Gen (Rocket Lake)
- Intel 11 Gen (Tiger Lake)
- Intel Xeon Skylake-SP
- Intel Xeon Cascade Lake-SP
- Intel Xeon Cooper Lake-SP
- Intel Xeon Ice Lake-SP
Windows 11 support for AMD processors
- AMD Ryzen 2000
- AMD Ryzen 3000
- AMD Ryzen 4000
- AMD Ryzen 5000
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3000
- AMD EPYC 2nd Gen
- AMD EPYC 3rd Gen
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