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Licensing

Revit 2024 Minimum: Entry-Level Configuration

Operating System * 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 10 or Windows 11. See Autodesk's Product Support Lifecycle for support information.
CPU Type Intel® i-Series, Xeon®, AMD® Ryzen, Ryzen Threadripper PRO. 2.5GHz or Higher. Highest CPU GHz recommended. Autodesk® Revit® software products will use multiple cores for many tasks.
Memory16 GB RAM. Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model up to approximately 300 MB on disk. This estimate is based on internal testing and customer reports. Individual models will vary in their use of computer resources and performance characteristics. Models created in previous versions of Revit software products may require more available memory for the one-time upgrade process.
Video Display Resolutions Minimum: 1280 x 1024 with true color. Maximum: UltraHigh (4k) Definition Monitor
Video Adapter Basic Graphics: Display adapter capable of 24-bit color. Advanced Graphics: DirectX® 11 capable graphics card with Shader Model 5 and a minimum of 4GB of video memory
Disk Space 30 GB free disk space
Pointing Device MS-Mouse or 3Dconnexion® compliant device
.NET Framework .NET Framework Version 4.8 or later.
Browser Chrome, Edge, or Firefox
ConnectivityInternet connection for license registration and prerequisite component download

Value: Balanced price and performance

Operating System ¹64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 10 or Windows 11. See Autodesk's Product Support Lifecycle for support information.
CPU Type Intel® i-Series, Xeon®, AMD® Ryzen, Ryzen Threadripper PRO. 2.5GHz or Higher. Highest CPU GHz recommended. Autodesk® Revit® software products will use multiple cores for many tasks.
Memory32 GB RAM. Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model up to approximately 600 MB on disk. This estimate is based on internal testing and customer reports. Individual models will vary in their use of computer resources and performance characteristics. Models created in previous versions of Revit software products may require more available memory for the one-time upgrade process.
Video Display Resolutions Minimum: 1680 x 1050 with true color. Maximum: Ultra-High (4k) Definition Monitor
Video Adapter DirectX 11 capable graphics card with Shader Model 5 and a minimum of 4GB of video memory.
Disk Space 30 GB free disk space
Pointing Device MS-Mouse or 3Dconnexion® compliant device
.NET Framework .NET Framework Version 4.8 or later.
Browser Chrome, Edge, or Firefox
ConnectivityInternet connection for license registration and prerequisite component download

Performance: Large, complex models

Operating System *64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 10 or Windows 11. See Autodesk's Product Support Lifecycle for support information.
CPU Type Intel® i-Series, Xeon®, AMD® Ryzen, Ryzen Threadripper PRO. 2.5GHz or Higher. Highest CPU GHz recommended. Autodesk® Revit® software products will use multiple cores for many tasks.
Memory64 GB RAM Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model up to approximately 1GB on disk. This estimate is based on internal testing and customer reports. Individual models will vary in their use of computer resources and performance characteristics. Models created in previous versions of Revit software products may require more available memory for the one-time upgrade process.
Video Display Resolutions Minimum: 1920 x 1200 with true color. Maximum: Ultra-High (4k) Definition Monitor
Video Adapter DirectX 11 capable graphics card with Shader Model 5 and a minimum of 4GB of video memory
Disk Space 30 GB free disk space. 10,000+ RPM HardDrive (for Point Cloud interactions) or Solid State Drive
Pointing Device MS-Mouse or 3Dconnexion® compliant device
.NET Framework .NET Framework Version 4.8 or later.
Browser Chrome, Edge, or Firefox
ConnectivityInternet connection for license registration and prerequisite component download

Revit Cloud Worksharing

Disk Space Three times (3X) the total disk space consumed by equivalent RVT files for all cloud workshared projects accessed by the user.
ConnectivityMinimum: Internet connection able to deliver symmetrical 5 Mbps connection for each machine on burst transfers.Value: Internet connection able to deliver symmetrical 10 Mbps connection for each machine on burst transfers. Performance: Internet connection able to deliver symmetrical 25 Mbps connection for each machine on burst transfers.

Revit Server 2024

Operating System Microsoft® Windows Server® 2019 64-bit. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 64-bit. Microsoft Windows Server 2022 64-bit
Web Server Microsoft® Internet Information Server 7.0 (or later)
.NET Framework .NET Framework Version 4.8 or later.
CPU Type 4+ cores: 2.6 GHz+ 6+ cores: 2.6 GHz+ 6+ cores: 3.0 GHz+
<100 Concurrent Users (multiple models) MinimumValuePerformance
Memory8 GB RAM 16 GB RAM 32 GB RAM
Hard Drive 7,200+ RPM 10,000+ RPM 15,000+ RPM
Virtualization VMware® and Hyper-V® Support (See Revit Server Administrator’s Guide)
100+ Concurrent Users (multiple models) MinimumValuePerformance
Memory8 GB RAM 16 GB RAM 32 GB RAM
Hard Drive 10,000+ RPM 15,000+ RPM High-Speed RAID Array
VirtualizationVMware® and Hyper-V® Support (See Revit Server Administrator’s Guide)

Citrix®: Minimum-Level Configuration²

Citrix System XenApp® 6.5 Feature Pack 2 or higher. Citrix® License Manager. Citrix Profile Manager
Server OS As specified by XenApp system requirements
AuthenticationMicrosoft Active Directory. Roaming Profiles supported
Client OS Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit. Microsoft Windows 11
Client Browser Chrome, Edge, or Firefox
User Access Client computers should be bound to the network domain. Each client computer should have either the full Citrix or web client plug-in installed. Users should use their domain logins to access both the Citrix web console and the LAN.

VMware®: Recommended-Level Configuration³

VMware Software VMware Horizon® 6.1 or later. VMware vSphere® 6 or later
Virtual Machine Operating System 64-bit Microsoft Windows 10. Microsoft Windows 11
Host Server Recommendation Performance4
CPU3.0 GHz+ Intel® Xeon E5 or later; or AMD® equivalent.
Memory384-512 GB
Networking10 GB
Storage~750+ IOPS Per User
GPUNVIDIA® GRID (K260Q or later) or AMD MxGPU (Radeon Pro V340 or later)
Virtual Machine Settings Performance4
Memory16-32 GB RAM
vCPUs 8 vCPUs
Disk Space 30 GB free disk space
Virtual Machine Connectivity Internet connection for license registration and prerequisite component download.
User Access Each client computer should have the VMware Horizon Client installed.

Parallels Desktop® 11 for Mac: Recommended-Level Configuration

Host Operating System macOS 10.13 (“High Sierra”) or newer
Memory16 GB
CPU Type 2.7 GHz quad-core Intel® Core i7™ or newer
Virtualization Software Parallels Desktop® 15 for Mac or newer
Virtual Machine Operating System¹ 64-bit Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 11
Virtual Machine Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or higher
.NET Framework .NET Framework Version 4.8 or later.
Virtual Machine Memory 8 GB RAM. Usually sufficient for a typical editing session for a single model up to approximately 100 MB on disk. This estimate is based on internal testing and customer reports. Individual models will vary in their use of computer resources and performance characteristics. Models created in previous versions of Revit software products may require more available memory for the one-time upgrade process.
Virtual Machine Video Adapter4 GB video memory minimum dedicated to the Microsoft Windows Virtual Machine. Starting with Parallels Desktop for Mac version 14, use Automatic graphics memory for maximum efficiency.
Disk Space Minimum 40 GB free disk space; recommend 100 GB free disk space available
Pointing Device MS-Mouse or 3Dconnexion compliant device
Connectivity Internet connection for license registration and prerequisite component download

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Notes

¹ Learn more about using Autodesk Revit or Autodesk Revit LT software with Boot Camp, part of macOS that enables you to install and run Microsoft Windows (and Windows-based applications) on a Mac® computer or with Parallels Desktop, a system utility available from Parallels, Inc. that allows you to run applications in each operating system without restarting your computer.

² Disclaimer: The Citrix application is network-based and performance of Autodesk Revit for Citrix software products may vary with network performance. The software does not include the Citrix application, nor does Autodesk provide direct support for issues with the Citrix application. Users should contact Citrix directly with questions related to procurement and operation of the Citrix application.

³ Disclaimer: The VMware application is network-based and performance of Autodesk Revit for VMware software products may vary with network performance. The software does not include the VMware application, nor does Autodesk provide direct support for issues with the VMware application. Users should contact VMware directly with questions related to procurement and operation of the VMware application.

Please see: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data center/virtualization/resources/

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