[Qgis-user] Recommended specification for Windows 11

[Patrick Dunford]

As a general rule, unless the application is specifically written to 
take advantage of the graphics card, you may not see any noticeable 
improvement in performance with a graphics card.


On 29/01/25 08:15, Brent Wood via QGIS-User wrote:
> There is no set requirement, as hardware requirements vary depending 
> largely on the data volumes you are rendering/processing.
>
> More is always better, Windows generally requires more than Mac & 
> Linux. A graphics processor with its own memory will help improve 
> performance, but is not required.
>
> I'd suggest minimum is 8gb system memory, at least a 250Gb SSD, I5 cpu 
> or equivalent. Shared graphics with 256 or 512Gb memory allocated.
>
> Ideal is 32Gb memory, 4Gb Nvidia/ATi graphics, 1Gb SSD, I7 or 
> equivalent AMD cpu (or better).
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Brent Wood
>
> Principal Technician, Fisheries
> NIWA
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> *Subject:* [Qgis-user] Recommended specification for Windows 11
>
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for the recommended hardware requirements for QGIS. We 
> are running Windows 11 and version 3.34 LTR of QGIS and experiencing 
> some crashes when rendering. I am suspecting that the laptops we have 
> do not have enough memory in them and am wondering whether a graphics 
> card with a certain amount of memory is required.
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
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