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Apple M5 Max
18C/18T
Released
Mar 3, 2026
CPULaptopReleased Oct 22, 2025
Apple M5
10C/10T · 4.6 GHz
Apple M5 is the base chip of Apple's fifth-generation M-series, announced on 15 October 2025 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Apple Vision Pro and later used in the MacBook Air. Apple calls its four high-performance cores super cores, paired with six efficiency cores. Its 10-core GPU adds a Neural Accelerator to every core, giving over four times the peak GPU AI compute of M4, and unified memory bandwidth rises to 153 GB/s. iPad Pro models with 256 GB or 512 GB of storage use a 9-core CPU (3 super cores) with 12 GB of memory, and some MacBook Air models use an 8-core GPU.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M5
- Segment
- Laptop
- Generation
- M5 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- —
- Release date
- Oct 22, 2025
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 10 cores / 10 threadsS4+E6
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 4.61 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- 22 MB
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 3 nmTSMC N3P (3 nm)
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (10-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5X-9600 (unified)
- Memory size
- 12 – 32 GB
- ECC memory
- ✕ No
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv9.2-ANEONSMEFP16BF16i8mmdotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Notes
- macOS 26 (Tahoe) and later on Mac, iPadOS 26 on iPad Pro. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux does not support the M3 generation or later, so no mainstream Linux distribution runs natively; ChromeOS is not supported. Apple does not publish clock speeds or TDP figures.
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