Author: Tim Hardwick
Apple today announced new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, both built on a new Fusion Architecture that bonds two third-generation 3nm dies into a single chip using advanced packaging.
Both chips feature an 18-core CPU – up from the 14-core and 16-core designs in M4 Pro and M4 Max, respectively. The CPU now includes six "super cores" (Apple's new branding for its highest-performance cores) alongside 12 efficiency-focused performance cores. Apple claims up to 30 percent faster multithreaded performance over the M4 generation.
M5 Pro features up to 20 GPU cores, while M5 Max doubles that to 40. Each GPU core now includes a Neural Accelerator, which Apple says delivers over 4x the peak AI compute compared to M4 Pro and M4 Max. Graphics performance is up to 20 percent faster, with ray-tracing workloads seeing up to 35 percent improvement.
Memory gets a bump too. M5 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory (up from 48GB on M4 Pro), with bandwidth reaching 307GB/s. The M5 Max model retains its 128GB maximum memory but raises the bandwidth to 614GB/s. Both chips also retain Thunderbolt 5 support, which debuted with the M4 Pro and M4 Max MacBook Pros last year.
Other additions include a 16-core Neural Engine, an updated Media Engine with AV1 decode support, and Memory Integrity Enforcement (an always-on memory safety feature Apple calls an industry first).
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Apple today announced new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models featuring M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, both built on a new Fusion Architecture that bonds two third-generation 3nm dies into a single chip using advanced packaging.
Both chips feature an 18-core CPU – up from the 14-core and 16-core designs in M4 Pro and M4 Max, respectively. The CPU now includes six "super cores" (Apple's new branding for its highest-performance cores) alongside 12 efficiency-focused performance cores. Apple claims up to 30 percent faster multithreaded performance over the M4 generation.
M5 Pro features up to 20 GPU cores, while M5 Max doubles that to 40. Each GPU core now includes a Neural Accelerator, which Apple says delivers over 4x the peak AI compute compared to M4 Pro and M4 Max. Graphics performance is up to 20 percent faster, with ray-tracing workloads seeing up to 35 percent improvement.
Memory gets a bump too. M5 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory (up from 48GB on M4 Pro), with bandwidth reaching 307GB/s. The M5 Max model retains its 128GB maximum memory but raises the bandwidth to 614GB/s. Both chips also retain Thunderbolt 5 support, which debuted with the M4 Pro and M4 Max MacBook Pros last year.
Other additions include a 16-core Neural Engine, an updated Media Engine with AV1 decode support, and Memory Integrity Enforcement (an always-on memory safety feature Apple calls an industry first).
The new MacBook Pro models are available for pre-order starting tomorrow, March 4, with availability beginning Wednesday, March 11.
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