Can I Run Substance 3D Designer 2024?
Adobe Substance 3D Designer is the industry's reference 3D Material Creation app. More than 95% of AAA game projects currently in development use Substance 3D as well as the most prestigious visual effects and animation studios.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 - Nvidia Quadro P2200 - AMD Radeon RX 580 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia Geforce GTX 2080 - Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT |
| RAM | 32 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 11 |
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Can you run Substance 3D Designer 2024?
Substance 3D Designer 2024 is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 - Nvidia Quadro P2200 - AMD Radeon RX 580 clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.
Bottleneck: RAM
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
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Can my PC run Substance 3D Designer 2024?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Substance 3D Designer 2024?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 - Nvidia Quadro P2200 - AMD Radeon RX 580; 16 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Substance 3D Designer 2024 need?
Substance 3D Designer 2024 needs about 10 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Substance 3D Designer 2024?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Substance 3D Designer 2024 is the RAM.