"The chip features up to 10 CPU cores, 10 GPU cores, and a 16-core Neural Engine (NPU). Dig a bit deeper and it becomes obvious that Apple has managed to pack several significant architectural upgrades into the M5. Most notably, the GPU has been upgraded with improved shader and ray tracing cores that supposedly deliver between 30 and 45 percent higher performance in graphics heavy workloads like gaming over last year's M4 silicon."
"Apple says that the GPU now delivers 4x the AI compute of the M4. How that translates into teraFLOPS of whatever-bit floating point performance, they conveniently didn't say. Even so, the inclusion of tensor cores in the GPU should translate into big improvements in large language model prompt processing and image generation - two areas where M-series silicon has historically struggled."
Apple's M5 SoC appears across new MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pro devices, with other Macs awaiting release. The chip offers up to 10 CPU cores, 10 GPU cores, and a 16-core Neural Engine. The GPU gains improved shader and ray tracing cores with claimed 30–45% better graphics performance versus the M4. Each GPU core includes an onboard neural processor similar to tensor cores, accelerating matrix operations for generative AI and machine learning. Apple claims 4x AI compute versus M4 but does not disclose raw FLOPS. Unified memory options are 16, 24, or 32 GB, non-upgradeable.
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