Apple Unveils 14-inch MacBook Pro With M5 Chip
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Apple unveiled an updated version of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip. The device will go on sale on October 22 and will be the first model to ship with macOS 26 “Tahoe.”
The new M5 processor features an integrated next-generation 10-core graphics processor with a neural network accelerator per core. This new graphics processor boasts a 1.6x performance boost in professional workloads and a 1.6x frame rate boost in games compared to the Apple M4 processor. The M5 chip also features 10 compute cores, delivering up to a 20% increase in multi-threaded performance compared to the M4.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 also boasts:
- up to 7.7x faster AI video processing performance in Topaz Video compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 and up to 1.8x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4;
- up to 6.8x faster 3D rendering in Blender compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 and up to 1.7x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4;
- up to 3.2x faster gaming frame rates compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 and up to 1.6x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4;
- up to 2.1x faster build performance when compiling code in Xcode compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 and up to 1.2x faster than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M4.
The updated laptop also boasts twice the SSD performance. The new chip supports SSDs up to 4 TB—twice the capacity of the M4. Unified memory (RAM) bandwidth has been increased to 153 GB/s (versus 120 GB/s on the M4).
The new model replaces the base MacBook Pro with the M4 chip. The M4 Pro and M4 Max versions will remain in the lineup. According to insiders, MacBook Pros with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips may appear next year.
