The first products with Apple’s new M5 Pro and M5 Max are finally almost here, and they should bring a big performance leap.
In summary:
Macworld reports that Apple’s upcoming M5 Pro and M5 Max chips are expected to deliver substantial performance improvements, with 13% single-core and 22% multi-core CPU gains.
The M5 Max could achieve graphics performance rivaling a GeForce RTX 4070 and potentially exceed 250,000 on Geekbench 6 GPU tests.
New TSMC SoIC-mH packaging technology may enable flexible CPU and GPU configurations in upcoming MacBook Pro models expected this month.
When we reviewed the first Mac with an M5 processor—the 14-inch MacBook Pro—we were pleasantly surprised. While most of the laptop hadn’t changed much (outside of a much faster SSD), the leap from M4 to M5 resulted in a pretty big performance jump.
Despite still employing a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU as in the M4 before it, the M5 version of the MacBook Pro saw single-core CPU gains of around 13 percent, an even bigger multi-core boost of about 22 percent, and extremely impressive graphics performance uplift of 35-50 percent.
This year, possibly in just a couple of weeks, we’ll meet the rest of the family, starting with the M5 Pro and M5 Max in the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, likely followed by spring launches of the M5 Pro Mac mini and M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Mac Studio. Here’s what we expect from those new chips.Same core count, but big improvements
We don’t think Apple will increase the maximum number of CPU or GPU cores.
