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Microsoft Quietly Updates Windows 11 Supported CPU List, Adding Several New Intel and AMD Chips

Microsoft updated its Windows 11 CPU support list to include several new Intel and AMD chips. Notable additions include the Intel Core i9-13900KS, AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 7900X3D, 7950X3D, and various Ryzen 7000U series mobile processors.

Microsoft Quietly Updates Windows 11 Supported CPU List, Adding Several New Intel and AMD Chips

Microsoft released the Moment 3 feature update for Windows 11 version 22H2 in late May under KB5026446 (Build 22621.1778).

The company also noted that eligible systems can update to Moment 3. Following the announcement, Microsoft quietly updated its list of newly supported processors from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. The list was last updated in October of last year when the company rolled out the 22H2 feature update.

Separate lists exist for both Windows 11 21H2 and 22H2, although Windows 11's system requirements have essentially not changed (much) since the original 21H2 release. So if users were hoping their currently unsupported hardware might suddenly appear on the newly added support list, that simply will not happen. Even so, plenty of people are still running unsupported systems on Windows 11 22H2, just as they have been doing with version 21H2.

In the past, Microsoft has mistakenly offered Windows 11 feature updates to unsupported systems. The most recent incident occurred earlier this year in February, which Microsoft acknowledged as an error, while a similar situation also occurred in June of last year.

Microsoft Quietly Updates Windows 11 Supported CPU List, Adding Several New Intel and AMD Chips

On the Intel side, the Windows 11 supported CPU list includes one especially notable entry: the flagship 6GHz Core i9-13900KS SKU, alongside other Intel Raptor Lake mobile CPUs such as the i5-1334U, 1335U, 1335UE, and 13500HS. The full list is available on Microsoft's website.

The AMD side is certainly where things get much more interesting. Chips with on-board 3D V-Cache have been added to the support list, including the AM4-based 5800X3D as well as the newer AM5-based 7950X3D, 7900X3D, and 7800X3D. Other AM4 SKUs include the Ryzen 3 4100, Ryzen 5 4500, 5500, and 5600. Meanwhile, for AM5, there are non-X Ryzen variants such as the Ryzen 7 7700 and Ryzen 5 7600. Several older-generation SKUs were also added to the Windows 11 version 22H2 supported Intel processors list.

For mobile processors, there are the Ryzen 5 5625U and the 5625C (part of the Chromebook edition), the Ryzen 3 5425U, and more. Several AMD 7000U series processors have also been added to the Windows support list, two of which are the 7530U and 7440U, among others (not to be confused with AMD's Mendocino, which features Zen 2 and RDNA 2 integrated graphics). Overall, this is quite a confusing naming scheme from AMD. You can check the complete list on Microsoft's Windows 11 supported AMD processors page.

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