{"id":49634,"date":"2025-10-15T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49634"},"modified":"2025-10-31T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:23:01","slug":"apple-m5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/apple-m5\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple M5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/10\/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon\/\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45591799\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/10\/15\/apple-unveils-m5-chip-with-next-generation-gpu\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/10\/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon\/\">\n<p>Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster, with over 4x the peak GPU compute performance compared to M4. The GPU also offers enhanced graphics capabilities and third-generation ray tracing that combined deliver a graphics performance that is up to 45 percent higher than M4. M5 features the world&rsquo;s fastest performance core, with up to a 10-core CPU made up of six efficiency cores and up to four performance cores. Together, they deliver up to 15 percent faster multithreaded performance over M4. M5 also features an improved 16-core Neural Engine, a powerful media engine, and a nearly 30 percent increase in unified memory bandwidth to 153GB\/s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/macbook-pro-m5-2025\/\">MacBook Pro (M5, 2025)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/ipad-pro-m5-8th-generation\/\">iPad Pro (M5, 8th Generation)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/apple-vision-pro-m5-2025\/\">Apple Vision Pro (M5, 2025)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/07\/apple-m4\/\">Apple M4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-m5-update-2025-10-16\">Update (<a href=\"#apple-m5-update-2025-10-16\">2025-10-16<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@dimitribouniol\/115382223281089233\">Dimitri Bouniol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@dimitribouniol\/115382223281089233\">\n<p>M5 seemingly only supporting Thunderbolt 4 ruins the hope I had that the base M5 Mac mini would support Thunderbolt 5 next year &#x1F614;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-m5-update-2025-10-20\">Update (<a href=\"#apple-m5-update-2025-10-20\">2025-10-20<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@BasicAppleGuy\/115406887900836842\">BasicAppleGuy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@BasicAppleGuy\/115406887900836842\">\n<p>Apple Silicon: M1 to M5<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-m5-update-2025-10-21\">Update (<a href=\"#apple-m5-update-2025-10-21\">2025-10-21<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/m4-vs-m5-chip\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/m4-vs-m5-chip\/\">\n<p>Compared to the M4 chip that Apple launched in May 2024, the M5 delivers[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-m5-update-2025-10-22\">Update (<a href=\"#apple-m5-update-2025-10-22\">2025-10-22<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/10\/charting-the-course-of-the-m5-processor\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/10\/charting-the-course-of-the-m5-processor\/\">\n<p>It reminded me, though, that I have tried to build some charts to help visualize how Apple&rsquo;s chip progress is going. I wrote about this <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/09\/charting-the-path-of-the-a19-pro\/\">for the A series of chips<\/a> back in September. Here are the requisite M series charts[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>So the very, very broad overview of what the M5 brings is a lot like the overview of the A19: In this generation, the CPU cores got a bit better, and the GPU cores took a much larger jump.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/linked\/max-weinbach-on-the-m5s-neural-accelerators\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/linked\/max-weinbach-on-the-m5s-neural-accelerators\/\">\n<p>Looking at Max&rsquo;s benchmarks with Qwen3&nbsp;8B and a ~20,000-token prompt, there is indeed a <strong>3.65x speedup<\/strong> in tokens\/sec in the prefill stage &#x2013; jumping from 158.2 tok\/s to a remarkable 578.7 tok\/s. This is why I&rsquo;m <em>very<\/em> excited about the future of MLX for local inference on M5, and why I&rsquo;m also looking forward to M5 Pro\/M5 Max chipsets in future Mac models.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-m5-update-2025-10-31\">Update (<a href=\"#apple-m5-update-2025-10-31\">2025-10-31<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/10\/30\/updated-cpu-core-frequencies-for-all-current-apple-silicon-macs\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/10\/30\/updated-cpu-core-frequencies-for-all-current-apple-silicon-macs\/\">\n<p>Thanks to your overwhelming response to my <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/10\/28\/updating-cpu-frequencies-for-apple-silicon-macs\/\">appeal for information<\/a> about CPU core frequencies in M3 Ultra and M5 base chips, this article updates the data to cover those new models in addition to all previous M-series chips.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Built using third-generation 3-nanometer technology, M5 introduces a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture with a Neural Accelerator in each core, enabling GPU-based AI workloads to run dramatically faster, with over 4x the peak GPU compute performance compared to M4. 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