Apple today announced the M5 chip, its next-generation chip, which powers the new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro models also announced today.
From Apple’s press release:
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. 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’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.
The M5’s next-generation GPU architecture is optimized for AI tasks. The 10-core GPU features a dedicated Neural Accelerator in each core, delivering over 4x peak GPU compute compared to M4, and over 6x peak GPU compute for AI performance compared to M1.
Apple says the next-generation GPU and enhanced shader cores in M5 also deliver increased graphics performance, achieving up to 30% faster performance compared to M4 and up to 2.5x faster performance than M1. The M5 also includes Apple’s third-generation ray-tracing engine, providing up to a 45 percent graphics uplift in apps using ray tracing
The M5 chip has unified memory bandwidth of 153GB/s, providing a nearly 30% increase over the M4, offering higher multithreaded performance in apps, faster graphics performance, and faster AI performance running models on the Neural Accelerators in the GPU or the Neural Engine. It supports up to 32GB of unified memory.
The M5 chip powers the new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro, all of which are available to pre-order today.
