Certified Hardware for Archicad

[Haris Matthaiou]

As a result of collaboration with different hardware vendors, certified hardware are system configurations tested by Graphisoft using Archicad for stability and reliability. Certified systems are ensuring that Archicad will run reliably with optimal performance. While we do take into consideration the performance of each system and component, we do not publicly rate the hardware on recommendation level.

For hardware recommendations please visit our Recommended Hardware article.

Vendor	System Specifications	Operating System	Archicad Version
Apple	MacBook Pro (16 inch, 2021) Type Laptop CPU M1 Pro 10 cores Memory 32GB RAM  Storage 1024GB NVMe SSD	macOS Monterey (version 12)	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25
Apple	MacBook Pro (14 inch, 2021) Type Laptop CPU M1 Pro 10 cores Memory 32GB RAM  Storage 1024GB NVMe SSD Graphics M1 Pro 16 cores	macOS Monterey (version 12)	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25
Apple	MacBook Pro (13 inch, 2020) Type Laptop CPU M1 8 cores Memory 16GB RAM  Storage 512GB NVMe SSD Graphics M1 8 cores	macOS Big Sur (version 11)	Archicad 27 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
HP	Z4 G4 Workstation Type Desktop CPU Intel Core i9-7900X Memory 128GB RAM Storage 1024GB NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA Quadro P6000 24GB VRAM	Windows 10 Enterprise	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
HP	Z240 Workstation Type Desktop CPU Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 Memory 32 GB Storage 512 NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA RTX 4000  8GB VRAM	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 25
MSI	CreatorPro M16 B13VI Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i9-13900H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 512GB NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA RTX A1000 6GB	Windows 11 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25
MSI	CreatorPro M17 A12UJS Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i5-12450H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 512GB NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA RTX A2000 8GB	Windows 11 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	CreatorPro M16 A12UIS Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i5-12450H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 512GB NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA RTX A1000 4GB	Windows 11 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	WF66 11UJ  Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i7-11800H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 512GB NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA RTX A2000 4GB	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	WF75 10TJ Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i7-10750H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 512 GB NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD Graphics NVIDIA Quadro T2000 4GB VRAM	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	WE76 11UK Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i9-11980HK Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 1024 GB NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA RTX A3000 6GB VRAM	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	WS66 11UK Type Laptop CPU Intel Xeon W-1195M Memory 64 GB RAM Storage 1024 GB NVMe SSD Graphics NVIDIA RTX A3000 6GB VRAM	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	WF65 10TI Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i7-10750H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 256GB NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD Graphics NVIDIA Quadro T1000 4GB VRAM	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	WF75 10TJ Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i7-10750H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 512 GB NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD Graphics NVIDIA Quadro T2000 4GB VRAM	Windows 11 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24
MSI	WF65 10TH Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i7-10750H Memory 16 GB RAM Storage 256GB NVMe SSD + 1TB HDD Graphics NVIDIA Quadro P620 4GB VRAM	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 27 Archicad 26 Archicad 25 Archicad 24

Certification on Legacy (unsupported) Archicad Versions

Vendor	System Specifications	Operating System	Archicad Version
MSI	WS65 9TL Type Laptop CPU Intel Core i7-9750H  Memory 32GB RAM  Storage 256 GB NVMe SSD Raid0 Array Graphics NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000	Windows 10 Professional	Archicad 23 Archicad 22

[RCA]

Good afternoon,
thinking about changing machines do you think that I'm better served with Mac M1 Max or Win with Intel i9 12xx and graphics 3070 to work in Archicad 25 (with future update to M1) and later Twinmotion.
In short, for better performance, Win or Mac?