Prerelease System Requirements

MATLAB R2024a Prerelease System Requirements for Mac

System Requirements for Previous Releases

Other Platforms: Windows | Linux

Note: As of MATLAB R2023b, MATLAB runs natively on Apple silicon Macs. See MATLAB on Apple silicon Macs for more information.


Operating System

macOS Sonoma (14)
macOS Ventura (13.6)
macOS Monterey (12.7)

Note: Support for macOS Monterey (12) will be discontinued as of MATLAB R2024b.

Processor

Intel Minimum: Any Intel x86-64 processor
Recommended: Any Intel x86-64 processor with four logical cores and AVX2 instruction set support
Note: A future release of MATLAB will require a processor with AVX2 instruction set support
Apple Silicon

Minimum: Any M-series chip

RAM

Minimum: 4 GB
Recommended: 8 GB
Note: For Polyspace, 4 GB per core is recommended

Storage

3.7 GB for just MATLAB
5-8 GB for a typical installation
25 GB for an all products installation
An SSD is strongly recommended

Graphics

Any Mac able to run macOS Big Sur has a GPU able to run MATLAB.

GPU acceleration with Parallel Computing Toolbox is not available on macOS.