The new MacBook Pro with M5 chip has become Apple’s fastest laptop ever

Apple’s new 14-inch MacBook Pro has gotten off to an impressive start thanks to its new M5 processor. A leak from the Geekbench 6 database shows that the chip has set records for speed and power efficiency, and experts are already calling it one of Apple’s most significant breakthroughs in recent years.

According to the test, the M5 features a 10-core processor with four performance cores and six power-efficient cores. In single-core mode, it scored 4,263 points — that’s the best score ever on Geekbench, among all Macs and PCs. By comparison, last year’s M4 Max produced 3,914 points, and the flagship AMD Ryzen 9950X3D — 3,399. Apple thus comfortably outperformed the competition in tasks where single-threadedness is important — running apps, games and overall system responsiveness.

So far, Apple has outperformed the competition in tasks where single-threadedness is important — running apps, games and overall system responsiveness.

Multicore performance is impressive, too: 17,862 points, about 20 percent higher than the M4 in last year’s MacBook Pro (14,726). While it falls short of the M4 Max (25,645), it’s nearly on par with the M1 Ultra (18,405) — while installed in a thin laptop, not a desktop system.

The same chip is already used in the new iPad Pro, where it scored similarly — 4,175 in the single-core test. This proves that Apple’s improvements in silicon are universal across the entire lineup of devices.