Hardware requirements
openSUSE supports most PC hardware components.
The following requirements should be met to ensure smooth operation of openSUSE Leap
- 2 Ghz dual-core CPU or better. CPUs with 3 or more available threads are recommended (3 cores or more, 2 cores with hyper-threading or more)
- For Leap 16.0 and X86_64 CPUs: x86-64-v2 microarchitecture level is required for Leap 16.0. You can check compatibility with this instruction
- Main memory: 2 GB of physical RAM for graphical install (1 GB for text install, at least 1.5 GB when using online repos). Add swap during install process if memory is insufficient. Reduce dedicated VRAM volume for iGPU if needed
- Disk (SSD, HDD, eMMC, SD card, USB flash, etc.): 8 GB of available disk space for a minimal install with manual disk partitioning (40 GB is required for installation with BTRFS file system and enabled snapshots). For systems with less than 10 GB of RAM swap partition is required. For systems with 2-3 GB of RAM dedicate on disk 3 GB or more for swap.
- Sound and graphics cards: supports most sound and graphics cards, 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 or higher recommended). For UEFI boot you need GPU supporting UEFI GOP
- Booting from DVD or CD (for Net install) drive or USB-Stick for installation, or support for booting over network (you need to setup PXE by yourself, look also at PXE boot installation) or an existing installation of openSUSE, more information at Installation without CD
The GRUB bootloader can cooperate with other operating systems on the same machine. OpenSUSE can be installed on single hard disk partition, while preserving existing installations on other partitions.