Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M1 Pro
Advantages of Apple M5 (10-Core)
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | - | - |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core) | Apple M5 (10-core) |
| TGP | 30 W | - |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 1230 MB/sec | 1770 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 82.4 Klines/sec | 139.5 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 249.1 pages/sec | 412.4 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 271.3 Mpixels/sec | 438.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 246.4 pages/sec | 419.8 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 36.9 images/sec | 79.1 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 102.5 images/sec | 169.4 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 10.7 Mpixels/sec | 21.8 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 45.8 GOps/sec | 58.8 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 64.2 GOps/sec | 80.8 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 272M Primes/sec | 349M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 32.6M Strings/sec | 37.2M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 12.2 GBytes/sec | 17.8 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 273.1 MBytes/sec | 324.4 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 2675 Frames/sec | 3483 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 12.4B Matrices/sec | 16.8B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 25.8 PPW | 43.8 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 343.5 PPW | 667.7 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 730.9 PPW | 1060.2 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 6.23 PPW | 10.24 PPW |
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Released | October 18, 2021 | October 15, 2025 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 | ARMv9 |
| Codename | Apple M1 | - |
| P-Cores | 8 | 4 |
| P-Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.2 GHz | 4.61 GHz |
| E-Cores | 2 | 6 |
| E-Threads | 2 | 6 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.1 GHz | 3.0 GHz |
| Total Cores | 10 | 10 |
| Total Threads | 10 | 10 |
| Multiplier | - | 46x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | 320K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 24MB (shared) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | 33.7 billions | 28 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 30 W | 27 W |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Apple M-Socket |
| Peak Temperature | - | 100°C |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M1 Pro GPU (16-core) | Apple M5 (10-core) |
| GPU Base Clock | 450 MHz | - |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1296 MHz | 2240 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 128 | 80 |
| ROPs | 64 | 40 |
| Execution Units | 256 | 160 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR5-6400 | - LPDDR5X-9600 |
| Max. Memory Size | 32 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Channels | 4 | 4 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 204.8 GB/s | 153 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| PCI Express Version | - | - |
| Model number | - | T8142 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | - | - |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | - | - |
| Bus Frequency | - | - |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | - |
| Official Site | - | - |
| PCI Express Lanes | - | - |