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Apple Debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips

Apple today unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, featuring a new Fusion Architecture and up to 40 next-generation GPU cores.

Apple M5 Pro M5 Max chips
The chips are made using a new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, which combines two dies into a single system on a chip (SoC). Both chips feature a new 18-core CPU architecture, including six high-performance cores that Apple now calls "super cores." They are joined by 12 all-new performance cores optimized for power efficiency. Together, they boost CPU performance by up to 30%.

The M5 Pro pairs a CPU with up to 18-cores with a next-generation GPU with up to 20 cores. With four additional CPU cores compared to the M4 Pro, the new CPU architecture significantly boosts multithreaded performance by up to 30%.

The chips feature up to 40 GPU cores, with a Neural Accelerator in each core, along with enhanced shader cores with second-generation dynamic caching and hardware-accelerated mesh shading. The GPU substantially increases graphics capabilities, now up to 35% for apps using ray tracing than the M4 Pro and M4 Max.

The M5 Pro chip supports up to 64GB of unified memory with higher unified memory bandwidth up to 307GB/s. Together, this allows the M5 Pro to deliver more than 4x the peak GPU compute performance compared to the M4 Pro, and over 6x the peak GPU compute performance than the M1 Pro for AI performance.

The M5 Max chip pairs the 18-core CPU with an up to 40 GPU cores. The new CPU architecture offers up to 15% higher multithreaded performance when compared to the M4 Max.

The M5 Max also supports up to 128GB of unified memory with higher unified memory bandwidth up to 614GB/s. It offers over 4x the peak GPU compute of the previous generation, and over 6x the peak GPU compute than the M1 Max for AI performance.

The chips are available in the new MacBook Pro, which is available for pre-order starting tomorrow.

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Top Rated Comments

M4irmidnight Avatar
9 weeks ago
All that power only to be paired with Tahoe. Oh apple…
Score: 27 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 weeks ago
Now give us these chips in Mac Studio please.
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Populus Avatar
9 weeks ago
So what, now the performance cores are the new efficiency cores, and the “super” cores at the new performance cores?

Not a fan of the core rebranding.
Score: 22 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Rychiar Avatar
9 weeks ago

All that power only to be paired with Tahoe. Oh apple…
wants wrong with Tahoe? its been perfect since day one for me as a designer 🤷‍♂️
Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)
johnalan Avatar
9 weeks ago
They look 🔥.

Apple M5 Max chip:


* 18‑core CPU with 6 super cores and 12 performance cores
* 40-core GPU
* [B]Neural Accelerators[/B]
* Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
* 16‑core Neural Engine
* [B]614GB/s memory bandwidth[/B]


That memory bandwidth is insane.
128GB RAM maximum still though - a lot but not a lot for frontier AI models.

It's also confusing going from 'efficiency and performance' to 'performance and super'.
EDIT: I think the original article is wrong, and super is actually the efficiency core...

I don't know what's going on at Apple, but lots of strange choices these days...
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
9 weeks ago

They raised prices across the entire MBP lineup. Now that said you are generally getting more storage etc.
* Compared to M1 Max, it's around 500$ more expensive.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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