M5 Max with inconsistent performance and throttling issues - Apple MacBook Pro 14 Review

[Redaktion]

Apple's new high-end chip M5 Max is once again also available for the compact MacBook Pro 14. We test the fastest version with the 40-core GPU, 128 GB RAM and 8 TB of blazing fast PCIe 5.0 storage. But the M5 Max might just be too powerful for the 14-inch MacBook Pro...

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[dada_dave]

Something just doesn't quite track. Compared to the 16" Pro, you measure lower average power commensurate with throttling during the CB 24 run, but then a higher score ... and they are in theory the same CPU. I'm not sure what is going on, but this is very strange - several oddities in these results which you noted as well, behavior seemingly needed to be fixed by Apple.