System requirements

System requirements has two parts. The first refers to what hardware and software you need in order to use Unity for game development. The second refers to the hardware and software you need to run a game developed in Unity. While these requirements might change, the requirements, as of Unity 2017, are detailed in the next two sections.

Development system requirements

You can use a Mac or a Windows computer for Unity development. The Mac must have macOS X 10.9 or later. For Windows computers, you must have Windows 7 SP1+, Windows 8, or Windows 10. 

Windows XP and Windows Vista are not officially supported. 

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) on your development computer must have DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities. 

There are additional requirements that are specific to what distribution platforms you are targeting. Please refer to the following table for further information.

If you are developing for...	You must have...
Android	Android SDK Java Development Kit
iOS	macOS X 10.9.4 or higher Xcode 7.0 or higher
WebGL	One of the following: macOS X 10.9+ Windows 7 SP1+ (64-bit)
Windows Store	Windows 8.1 (64-bit) and one of the following as applicable: IL2CPP (used for compiling .NET assemblies) Visual Studio with C++ compiler feature  Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Visual Studio 2015 or later Windows 10 SDK Windows 8.1/Windows Phone 8.1 Visual Studio 2013 or later Windows 8.1 SDK

Playback system requirements

There are not a lot of requirements for users playing Unity games on devices you developed for. Typically, having an up-to-date device, in terms of hardware and operating system, will result in the optimal playing experience.

The basic requirements are detailed as follows:

Device/Platform	Requirements
Android	ARMv7 (Cortex) CPU with NEON support or Atom CPU OpenGL ES 2.0 or later OS 4.1 or later
Desktop	CPU Must support SSE2 instruction set Graphics card options DX9 (shader model 3.0) DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities Operating system options macOS X 10.9+ SteamOS+ Ubuntu 12.04+ Windows XP SP2+
iOS	iOS 7.0 or higher
WebGL	A recent version of one of the following browsers Chrome Edge Firefox Safari
Windows Phone	Windows Phone 8.1 or later