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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on March 03, 2026, 17:27:38

Title: M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro lineup arrives with promising performance improvements and twice the base storage
Post by: Redaktion on March 03, 2026, 17:27:38
Apple has officially launched the 14" and 16" MacBook Pro lineups powered by the M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs. With up to an 18-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128 GB memory and twice the storage for the base variants, Apple's high-end MacBook Pro lineup has finally caught up to the M5 generation.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/M5-Pro-and-M5-Max-MacBook-Pro-lineup-arrives-with-promising-performance-improvements-and-twice-the-base-storage.1241077.0.html
Title: Re: M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro lineup arrives with promising performance improvements and twice t
Post by: davidm on March 03, 2026, 23:28:06
It's amazing how this site refuses to talk about memory bandwidth, one of the key advantages for Macs and Strix Halo.
Title: Re: M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro lineup arrives with promising performance improvements and twice t
Post by: dada_dave on March 04, 2026, 07:51:22
There appears to be a mistake both in this and your other article on the M5 Pro/Max regarding the new Super and Performance cores:

The old Performance cores are indeed rebranded as Super cores, but the new Performance cores are NOT the same as the old Efficiency cores. Rather they represent a new middle core design.

So under the new nomenclature the A19 has 2 S-cores and 4 E-cores, the base M5 has 4 S-cores and 6 E-cores, while the M5 Pro/Max has up to 6 S-cores and 12 P-cores.
Title: Re: M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro lineup arrives with promising performance improvements and twice t
Post by: Sergey on March 04, 2026, 10:00:48
Thank you, dada_dave! We'll update things shortly.
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