System requirements for AutoCAD 2022 including Specialized Toolsets (Windows)

Operating 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11 and Windows 10.

System
Basic: 2.5–2.9 GHz processor
Processor
Recommended: 3+ GHz processor
Basic: 8 GB
Memory
Recommended: 16 GB
Conventional Displays:
1920 x 1080 with True Color
Display
Resolution
High Resolution & 4K Displays:
Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 supported on Windows 10 (with capable display card)
Basic: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant
Display Card
Recommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 12 compliant
Disk Space 10.0 GB
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 2022 for Mac

Apple® macOS® Big Sur v11
Operating
Apple macOS Catalina v10.15
System
Apple macOS Mojave v10.14
Basic: Apple Mac Pro® 4.1, MacBook Pro 5.1, iMac® 8.1, Mac mini® 3.1, MacBook
Air®, MacBook® 5.1
Model
Recommended: Apple Mac® models supporting Metal Graphics Engine
Apple Mac models with M series chip are supported under Rosetta 2 mode.
64-bit Intel CPU
CPU Type
Recommended: Intel Core i7 or higher
Basic: 4GB
Memory
Recommended: 8GB or higher
Display Basic: 1280 x 800 display
Resolution High Resolution: 2880 x 1800 with Retina Display
Disk Space 4 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
APFS, APFS(Encrypted), Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended
Disk Format
(Journaled, Encrypted)

Additional Requirements for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling

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

Specialized Toolsets (Windows Only)

Toolset Additional Requirements

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

AutoCAD Map 3D Additional Requirements (Windows Only)

FDO Provider Requirements

FDO Provider Certified With Notes
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard and Enterprise
Editions
Industry Models also support
Microsoft SQL Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard and Enterprise
the versions of Microsoft SQL
Server Editions
Server listed on the left.
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard and Enterprise
Editions
Industry Models support the
Oracle 12c Oracle 12.2.0.1.0
same Oracle versions as listed
Release 2 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition
on the left.
Industry Models support the
Oracle 18.3
Oracle 18c same Oracle versions as listed
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
on the left.
Industry Models support the
Oracle 19.3
Oracle 19c same Oracle versions as listed
Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2
on the left.
DEM, JPG2K, DTED, MrSID®, ECW, PNG,
Raster
ESRI® Grid, TIFF, JPEG, ESRI® ASCII
FDO Provider Requirements
FDO Provider Certified With Notes
Autodesk SDF 3.0
ArcGIS® 10.8.1 This Provider requires ESRI
ESRI ArcGIS ArcGIS 10.7.1 licensed components to be
ArcGIS 10.6.1 installed on client system.
MySQL 8.0
The FDO ODBC provider has been tested with
corresponding versions of ODBC drivers that are
ODBC
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 12.2 + PostGIS 3.0

ODBC Drivers Tested Versions

Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English)
Microsoft® Access® Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)
16.00.4999.1000
Microsoft® Excel® Driver (*.xls, *xlsx, *.xlsm, Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English)
*.xlsb) 16.00.4999.1000
MySQL® ODBC 8.0 Driver 8.00.22.00
SQL Server® 10.00.18362.01
Oracle® in OraClient19Home1 19.00.00.00