{"id":183522,"date":"2026-03-03T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/m5-pro-and-m5-max-are-surprisingly-big-departures-from-older-apple-silicon\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:41:29","slug":"m5-pro-and-m5-max-are-surprisingly-big-departures-from-older-apple-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/m5-pro-and-m5-max-are-surprisingly-big-departures-from-older-apple-silicon\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As part of today&#8217;s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the Pro and Max chips take the same basic building blocks from the basic chip and just scale them up\u2014more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and more memory bandwidth. But the M5 chips are a surprisingly large departure from past generations, both in terms of the CPU architectures they use and in how they&#8217;re packaged together.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t know the impact these changes have had on performance until we have hardware in hand to test, but here are all the technical details we&#8217;ve been able to glean about the new updates and how the M5 chip family stacks up against the past few generations of Apple Silicon chips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/m5-pro-and-m5-max-are-surprisingly-big-departures-from-older-apple-silicon\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/03\/m5-pro-and-m5-max-are-surprisingly-big-departures-from-older-apple-silicon\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of today&#8217;s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. 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