Microsoft published minimum system requirements, CPU support for Windows 11 LTSC 2024

Microsoft a few days back, announced that it was beginning the WHCP hardware certification for the next Windows feature update, version 24H2. This essentially ensures that the Windows 11 24H2 system requirements eligibility of compatible CPUs, and such, are properly maintained by hardware partners like AMD, or Intel, among others. While the system requirements are not expected to change, very old processors would not be able to bypass the Windows 11 24H2 eligibility block as they do not have PopCnt and SSE4.2 instructions.

Interestingly, the same will apply to Windows Server 2025 as well which received official Evaluation ISOs too.

Aside from that, the company also announced Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 this week. The company has also published the minimum system requirements as well as supported processor families. They have been categorized as Preferred and Optional. Interestingly, SSD has been added as a minimum system requirement, which has been a rumour about the client OS since mid-2022.

The minimum requirements of Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2024, both preferred and optional, are given below:

Component	PREFERRED Minimum Requirements	OPTIONAL Minimum Requirements
Processor¹	1 GHz, 2 Cores	1 GHz, 2 Cores
System Memory	4 GB	2 GB
Storage Size	64 GB	16 GB
Storage Type	Solid‑State Drive (SSD)	Solid‑State Drive (SSD) Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Hybrid Hard Drive (SSHD) Flash (eMMC, SD, USB)
System Firmware	UEFI	BIOS
TPM	TPM 2.0	Optional
Secure Boot	Enabled	Optional
DirectX	DirectX 12	DirectX 10 / None
Display	9″ diagonal 720p HD	Custom Size / Optional

Microsoft has also published the list of supported Intel and AMD x86 processors as well as Qualcomm and NXP Arm CPUs.

First up, we have Intel:

Intel® Processor Platform	Products Formerly Known As (Code Name)
Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors (Series 1)	Meteor Lake
13th and 14th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors 13th and 14th Generation Intel® Processors	Raptor Lake
12th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors 12th Generation Intel® Pentium® Processors 12th Generation Intel® Celeron® Processors	Alder Lake
11th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Intel® Xeon® W-11XXX Processors Intel® Celeron® Processors	Tiger Lake
10th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Intel® Xeon® W-1XXX and W-10XXX Processors Intel® Pentium® Processors Intel® Celeron® Processors	Comet Lake
8th and 9th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Intel® Xeon® E-2XXX Processors Intel® Pentium® Processors Intel® Celeron® Processors	Coffee Lake
8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Intel® Celeron® Processors	Whiskey Lake
Intel® Xeon® Processors	Sapphire Rapids
Intel® Xeon® Processors	Ice Lake
Intel® Xeon® Processors Intel® Core™ X-Series Processors	Cascade Lake
Intel® Xeon® Processor Intel® Core™ X-Series Processors	Skylake-SP or Skylake-X
Intel® Atom® Processors	Amston Lake
Intel® Atom® Processors Intel® Core™ N-Series Processors Intel® Processors	Alder Lake-N
Intel® Pentium® Processors Intel® Celeron® Processors	Jasper Lake
Intel® Atom® Processors Intel® Pentium® Processors Intel® Celeron® Processors	Elkhart Lake

Up next we have AMD:

The list of supported Qualcomm and NXP processors is available on the support document on Microsoft”s website. If you are curious, Microsoft last updated the compatible CPU list for client Windows 11 this March.