macOS [#macos]

* Chip: Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4).
* macOS 14.0 or newer is required.
* 16GB+ RAM recommended.
  * You may still be able to use LM Studio on 8GB Macs, but stick to smaller models and modest context sizes.
* Intel-based Macs are currently not supported. Chime in [here](https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/9) if you are interested in this.

Windows [#windows]

LM Studio is supported on both x64 and ARM (Snapdragon X Elite) based systems.

* CPU: AVX2 instruction set support is required (for x64)
* RAM: LLMs can consume a lot of RAM. At least 16GB of RAM is recommended.
* GPU: at least 4GB of dedicated VRAM is recommended.

Linux [#linux]

LM Studio is supported on both x64 and ARM64 (aarch64) based systems.

* LM Studio for Linux is distributed as an AppImage.
* Ubuntu 20.04 or newer is required
* Ubuntu versions newer than 22 are not well tested. Let us know if you're running into issues by opening a bug [here](https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker).
* CPU:
  * On x64, LM Studio ships with AVX2 support by default