cpu
Apple M5 Pro
18C/18T
Released
Mar 3, 2026
CPULaptopReleased Mar 3, 2026
Apple M5 Max
18C/18T
The M5 Max is the high-end chip of Apple's M5 generation, announced in March 2026 for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro and added to the Mac Studio in September 2026. It shares the M5 Pro's two-die Fusion Architecture and 18-core CPU, but doubles the GPU to 40 cores and the memory bandwidth to 614 GB/s, with up to 128 GB of unified memory. A version with a 32-core GPU and 460 GB/s of bandwidth is also offered. Two M5 Max chips joined by UltraFusion form the M5 Ultra.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M5 Max
- Segment
- Laptop
- Generation
- M5 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- —
- Release date
- Mar 3, 2026
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 18 cores / 18 threadsS6+P12
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- —
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- —
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 3 nm3 nm
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (40-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5X-9600 (unified)
- Memory size
- 36 – 128 GB
- ECC memory
- —
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv9.2-ANEONSMEFP16BF16i8mmdotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Notes
- macOS 26 (Tahoe) and later. 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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