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The M5 scores a single-core Geekbench record of 4,263, beating the previous M4 Max chipset and the best PC chipsets.
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Multi-Core 17,862: About 20% boost over the M4, beats the M3 Pro but falls behind the M4 Pro/Max for heavy workloads.
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A single, unconfirmed entry into Geekbench – a promising leap, but take the results with a grain of salt.
Apple has just unveiled its next-generation M-series chips, which will power the new MacBook Pro as well as the latest generation iPad Pro. And that’s very good. So good, in fact, that it seems to outperform Apple’s best chips from the last generation.
An early, unconfirmed benchmark result for Apple’s next-generation M5 SoC has appeared online. The result, uploaded to the Geekbench 6 database, appears to be from the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, and shows that the M5 achieved the highest single-core score ever recorded for any Mac or PC processor on the platform.
On a single benchmark entry, the M5 chip recorded a single-core score of 4,263. Not only is this the best M-series chip yet, but if true, it will also outperform even the Pro and Max variants of the M4. The previous highest-performing Mac chip, the M4 Max in the 16-inch MacBook Pro, scored 3,914 points, while the high-end PC processor listed, AMD’s Ryzen 9950X3D, comes in at 3,399. The M5’s score represents a roughly 9% increase over the M4 Max and an impressive 25% lead over the high-performance AMD chip in this specific test. It’s an important leap.
As a reminder, although multi-core capabilities are essential for heavy, parallel workloads like video rendering or code compilation, single-core speed often determines how fast applications can run and how fast the system can be during everyday tasks like web browsing and document editing. It says a lot about what Apple is doing with these chips, and means the MacBook Pro could actually be a good leap forward (depending on your usage, of course) even if you’re eyeing models with Pro or Max CPUs.
Leaked data specifies that the M5 chip in this 14-inch MacBook Pro model features a 10-core CPU, configured with four high-performance cores and six high-efficiency cores. The single-core benchmark isolates the performance of just one of these powerful performance cores.
Multi-core is still decent, but here we find our usual differences. The 14-inch MacBook Pro achieved a multi-core score of 17,862. This represents a performance increase of up to 20% compared to the M4 chip in the equivalent previous generation model, which scored 14,726 points. Perhaps most importantly, this score allows the standard M5 chip to outperform the previous generation M3 Pro chip (15,257). It’s not yet comparable to the M4 Pro and M4 Max, which are more suitable if you need multi-core performance. Presumably we’ll get M5 Pro and M5 Max chips eventually as well, but for now, that’s pretty good.
You should take this with a grain of salt. The figures are based on a single unconfirmed standard upload to a public database. But if this is true, it is at least promising.
source: MacRumors