Earlier on, we reported a handy tool that verifies if your PC is compatible with the new Windows 11, which was short-lived as Microsoft removed it after several failures in the detection mechanism.
Microsoft has deleted the application that allowed us to verify that our PC met the minimum Windows 11 requirement following multiple detection failures.
Apparently even Microsoft itself does not currently know what the requirements of Windows 11 are. The company itself has now recognized that it evaluates various requirements and thus the application is not testing against the final requirements and the results of your analysis may therefore be incorrect. For instance, first the company said that TPM 2.0 would be necessary but afterward it confirmed that only TPM 1.2 is required and there are also concerns about the compatibility of both AMD and Intel CPU generation.
The official minimum requirements are the following, although they may vary:
- Processor: 1 giga Hertz (GHz) or faster with 2 or more cores in a compatible 64-bit processor or system on a chip (SoC). Intel Core 8th. Generation or higher, or 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen. Generation or higher.
- Memory: 4GB RAM
- Storage: Storage device of 64 GB or more
- Graphics card: DirectX 12 / WDDM 2.x compatible graphics
- Screen: > 9 ″ with HD resolution (720p)
- Internet connection: Windows 11 Home requires a Microsoft account and Internet connectivity
- TPM 2.0 support
Updated: The minimum system requirements are now changed by Microsoft. Microsoft stresses that Intel, AMD Zen 2 and Qualcomm 7 and 8-series SOCs of the eighth generation would run Windows 11. The software company will also make sure through Insiders builds that Ryzen processors and Intel Gen 7 in the first generation are still adequate enough.
