Today Apple introduced the updated MacBook Pro and Vision Pro, both of which have the new M5 chip inside. This delivers “over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI” compared to its predecessor, the M4. It has a Neural Accelerator in each of its GPU cores.
It’s built using third-gen 3nm technology, and its CPU apparently features “the world’s fastest performance core”. The CPU itself has up to 10 cores, of which four are performance cores and six are efficiency cores. Together, they deliver up to 15% better multithreaded performance compared to the M4.
The M5 also has an almost 30% increase in memory bandwidth to 153GB/s, supporting a maximum of 32GB of RAM, and 45% improved overall graphics performance vs the M4. Apple says “every compute block of the chip is optimized for AI”, and this means the new products using the M5 “benefit from dramatically accelerated processing for AI-driven workflows, such as running diffusion models in apps like Draw Things, or running large language models locally using platforms like webAI”.
The new ray tracing engine provides up to a 45% boost, and combined with “rearchitected second-generation dynamic caching”, the GPU should provide “smoother gameplay, more realistic visuals in 3D applications, and faster rendering times for complex graphics projects”.
