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View system requirements

Tableau Desktop system requirements:

Windows
  • Windows 7 or newer (64 bit)
  • Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Opteron processor or faster
  • 2 GB memory
  • 1.5 GB minimum free disk space
Mac
  • iMac/MacBook computers 2009 or newer
  • macOS High Sierra 10.13, macOS Mojave 10.14 and macOS Catalina 10.15
  • 1.5 GB minimum free disk space

Tableau Prep Builder system requirements:

Windows
  • Windows 7 or newer (64 bit)
  • Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 Pro or faster
  • 4 GB memory
  • 2 GB minimum free disk space
Mac
  • macOS High Sierra 10.13, macOS Mojave 10.14 and macOS Catalina 10.15
  • Intel Core i3 or faster
  • 4 GB memory
  • 2 GB minimum free disk space

Tableau Server system requirements:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019; Windows 7, 8 and 10 on x64 chipsets
  • Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+, CentOS 7.3+, Debian 9.0+, Oracle Linux 7.3+, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS
Hardware specifications:
  • Minimum system requirements
    • 4 cores
    • 64-bit processor
    • 16 GB system memory
    • 15 GB minimum free disk space
  • Recommended requirements
    • 8 physical cores, 2.0 GHz or higher CPU
    • 64-bit processor
    • 32 GB system memory
    • 50 GB minimum free disk space
  • Tableau Prep Conductor
    • We recommend deploying Tableau Prep Conductor on a dedicated node with a minimum of 4 cores and 16 GB of memory. Additional resources may be needed depending on the use case. Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance.
  • Multi-node and enterprise deployments
    • Contact Tableau for sizing and technical guidance

All of Tableau’s products are Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation are in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep are supported in both Windows and MacOS environments. In addition, all of Tableau’s products operate in virtualised environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. These virtual solutions include Citrix environments, Parallels and VMware.