AutoCAD 2023 System Requirements

Here are the full system requirements for Autocad 2022.

These system requirements have been taken directly from the Autodesk website, the link to which can be found at the bottom of this page.

These details are correct as of 31/05/2022.

 

System requirements for AutoCAD 2023 including Specialized Toolsets (Windows)
Operating System 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11 and Windows 10 version 1809 or above. See Autodesk’s Product Support Lifecycle for support information.
Processor Basic: 2.5–2.9 GHz processor (base) ARM Processors are not supported.
Recommended: 3+ GHz processor (base), 4+ GHz (turbo)
Memory Basic: 8 GB
Recommended: 16 GB
Display Resolution Conventional Displays:
1920 x 1080 with True ColorHigh Resolution & 4K Displays:
Resolutions up to Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 (with capable display card)
Display Card Basic: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Recommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 12 compliant
Disk Space 10.0 GB (suggested SSD)
Network See Autodesk Network License Manager for Windows
Pointing Device MS-Mouse compliant
.NET Framework .NET Framework version 4.8 or later

 

System requirements for AutoCAD 2023 for Mac
Operating System Apple® macOS® Monterey v12
Apple macOS Big Sur v11
Apple macOS Catalina v10.15
Model Basic: Apple Mac Pro® 4.1, MacBook Pro 5.1, iMac® 8.1, Mac mini® 3.1, MacBook Air®, MacBook® 5.1

Recommended: Apple Mac® models supporting Metal Graphics Engine
Apple Mac models with M series chip are supported under Rosetta 2 mode.

CPU Type 64-bit Intel CPU
Apple M series CPU
Memory Basic: 4GB
Recommended: 8GB or higher
Display Resolution Basic: 1280 x 800 display
High Resolution: 2880 x 1800 with Retina Display
Disk Space 5 GB free disk space for download and installation
Pointing Device Apple-compliant Mouse, Apple-compliant Trackpad, Microsoft-compliant mouse
Display Card Recommended: Mac native installed graphics cards
Disk Format APFS, APFS(Encrypted), Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)

 

Additional Requirements for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling
Memory 16 GB RAM or more
Disk Space 6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements
Display Card 3840 x 2160 (4K) or greater True Color video display adapter; 8 GB VRAM or greater; Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater; DirectX-capable workstation class graphics card.

Specialized Toolsets (Windows Only)

Toolset Additional Requirements
AutoCAD Map 3D Disk Space: 20GB
Memory: 16GB
Database & FDO Requirements (see below)
AutoCAD Electrical Disk Space: 20GB
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable (x64) (16.0.5044.1000) or later
AutoCAD Architecture Disk Space: 20GB
Memory: 16GB
AutoCAD MEP Disk Space: 21GB
Memory: 16GB
AutoCAD Plant 3D Disk Space: 12GB
Memory (recommended for 3D modeling): 32GB
AutoCAD Mechanical Disk Space: 12GB
AutoCAD Raster Design Disk Space: 1GB

AutoCAD Map 3D Additional Requirements (Windows Only)

FDO Provider Requirements
FDO Provider Certified With Notes
Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard and Enterprise Editions
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard and Enterprise Editions
Industry Models also support the versions of Microsoft SQL Server listed on the left.
Oracle 12c Release 2 Oracle 12.2.0.1.0
Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition
Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left.
Oracle 18c Oracle 18.3
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left.
Oracle 19c Oracle 19.3
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left.
Oracle 21c Oracle 21.3
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left.
Raster DEM, JPG2K, DTED, MrSID®, ECW, PNG, ESRI® Grid, TIFF, JPEG, ESRI® ASCII
Autodesk SDF 3.0
ESRI ArcGIS ArcGIS® 10.8.1
ArcGIS 10.7.1
ArcGIS 10.6.1
This Provider requires ESRI licensed components (ArcGIS Engine/ArcGIS Desktop) to be installed on Map 3D installed system.
MySQL 8.0
ODBC The FDO ODBC provider has been tested with corresponding versions of ODBC drivers that are shipped with the relevant supported operating systems version.
OGC WMS WMS 1.3.0
OGC WMTS WMS 1.0.0
OGC WFS WFS 2.0.0
SQLite SQLite 3.27.2
PostgresSQL PostgreSQL 13.5 + PostGIS 3.0

 

ODBC Drivers Tested Versions
Microsoft® Access® Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb) Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English) 16.00.4999.1000
Microsoft® Excel® Driver (*.xls, *xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb) Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English) 16.00.4999.1000
MySQL® ODBC 8.0 Driver 8.00.27.00
SQL Server® 10.00.19041.01
Oracle® in OraClient21Home1 21.00.00.00

 

You can find the official page here for Autocad 2023 System Requirements.