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System Requirements

Pods Have No Hardware Requirements

Bazzite Pods run on any system with Docker/Podman. These requirements are only for Bazzite AI OS.

Desktop Environment

KDE Plasma only - GNOME variants are not supported.

Storage

Component Size Notes
OS image ~12GB Base installation
Pod variants 1.5-5GB each Downloaded on demand
WinBoat (optional) 32GB+ Windows container environment

Recommended: 64GB+ total for comfortable development with multiple pods.

GPU Support

Bazzite AI OS supports all modern GPUs through open-source drivers:

Vendor Supported GPUs Driver
NVIDIA RTX 20+ series (Turing and newer) Open kernel modules
AMD RX 5000+ / Vega+ (GCN 1+) AMDGPU + Mesa RADV
Intel Gen 7+ / Arc A/B-series i915 / xe + Mesa ANV

Graphics Stack

  • Mesa 25.2.4
  • Vulkan 1.4
  • OpenGL 4.6
  • Kernel 6.16.4+

Pod GPU Access

  • NVIDIA: Run ujust setup-gpu-pods once to configure nvidia-container-toolkit
  • AMD/Intel: Works automatically via /dev/dri passthrough

For detailed GPU compatibility and troubleshooting, see GPU Compatibility Guide.

Memory

Use Case Minimum Recommended
Basic development 8GB 16GB
ML/AI workloads 16GB 32GB+
WinBoat +4-8GB +8GB

CPU

Any x86_64 CPU with virtualization support (VT-x/AMD-V) for container and VM workloads.

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