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Apple M5
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Apple M5
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| Designer | Apple |
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| Introduced | October 2025 (MacBook Pro 14", iPad Pro, Apple Vision Pro) |
| Process | 3 nm N3P (TSMC) |
| CPU | 10-core: 4P + 6E · Pro/Max: 18-core (6 Super cores + 12 performance cores) |
| GPU | 10-core — Neural Accelerator in every core, 3rd-gen ray tracing · Pro: up to 20-core · Max: up to 40-core |
| Neural Engine | 16-core |
| Unified memory | Up to 32 GB (153 GB/s) · Pro: 64 GB (307 GB/s) · Max: 128 GB (614 GB/s) |
| Devices | MacBook Pro 14" (2025) · iPad Pro (2025) · Apple Vision Pro (2025) · MacBook Air (2026) · MacBook Pro 14"/16" (2026, Pro/Max) |
| Predecessor | Apple M4 |
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The Apple M5, launched October 2025 across a same-day trio of MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro, brought the Apple A19 generation's signature move to the Mac: a Neural Accelerator in every GPU core, shifting AI throughput into the shader pipeline for roughly four times the M4's peak GPU compute — silicon aimed at running local models, backed by 153 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
1 Variants✎
The M5 Pro and M5 Max arrived in March 2026's MacBook Pro on a new Fusion Architecture: advanced packaging joins two 3-nanometer dies into one SoC — CPU, GPU, media engine, Neural Engine, memory controller, and Thunderbolt 5 — carrying an 18-core CPU with what Apple calls the world's fastest CPU core, up to a 40-core GPU on the Max, and 614 GB/s of bandwidth. An M5 Ultra is expected in a Mac Studio refresh later in 2026.
2 Legacy✎
Still current: the M5 generation is Apple's AI-compute play made structural — neural hardware in every GPU core below, Fusion-packaged pro dies above. Its Vision Pro debut also made it the first M chip to launch in three product categories at once.
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