Submission + - Apple Announces New M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips (apple.com)
jizmonkey writes: Apple announced its newest CPUs today, which it claims has the fastest single-threaded performance in the world. Both the M5 Pro and M5 Max have eighteen core designs versus twelve or fourteen in the M4 Pro and fourteen or sixteen in the M4 Max. However, the number of higher-performing cores has been reduced significantly. In the older M4 designs, the chips had eight, ten or twelve "performance" cores and four "efficiency" cores. In the M5 design, there are now only four higher-performing cores (now called "super" cores) and twelve lower-performing cores (now called "performance"cores). The maximum amount of RAM remains the same at 128GB and GPU performance has increased. Laptops with the new chips are available to order starting tomorrow and will be delivered starting next week.
