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MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: the “Super core” architecture and 40-core GPU mean beastly performance, but it has a five-year-old design and is $100+ pricier

EDITORS' CHOICE  —  4.5  —  Outstanding  —  THE BOTTOM LINE  —  The 2026 MacBook Pro 16-inch with M5 Max …

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  • @vadimyuryev Vadim Yuryev on x
    Awesome complete chart of Apple Silicon chip performance by @SimeonNikolov! Crazy to see how the new M5 Pro matches the multi-core performance of the M3 Ultra. Can't believe THAT much power is going into a 14" MacBook Pro! Full Link to site: https://laptopmedia.com/... [image]
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    Here's my M5 Max report, it's a wonderful chip. The idle is lower than M4 Max while the peak performance is even higher. AI performance is, as you would expect, very very good. I think this is the best laptop SoC on the market, which is no surprise. https://creativestrategies.com…
  • @vadimyuryev Vadim Yuryev on x
    Told you guys M5 Max would at least match the desktop RTX 5080! Now let's wait and see how fast M5 Ultra is 😎
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    Here are your M5 Max benchmarks compared to M4 Max and M3 Ultra [image]
  • @ronaldmannak Ronald Mannak on x
    MLX benchmarks are in and I did not expect these results. the M5 Max blows the M3 Ultra out of the water, despite having more GPU cores and higher memory bandwidth. Compute-bound prefill is much faster (up to 2x) thanks to the new M5 Neural Accelerators, but also memory-bound [im…
  • @ronaldmannak Ronald Mannak on x
    Tl;DR: Time to first token, where GPU speed matters most, is 2.5× faster on the M5 Max than on the M4 Max! It's also 1.5× faster than the M3 Ultra in llama.cpp testing, though not in MLX. I assume llama.cpp is tapping into the new Neural Accelerators. Now I really want to see
  • @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
    It's a true workstation in a notebook. The efficiency story and the way power is managed for not just the S and P cores but also the CPU/NPU tile and the GPU tile is impressive.
  • @markgurman Mark Gurman on x
    Only with Apple is the new MacBook Pro lasting an extra 26 minutes - after a year and a half - considered an “astonishing” upgrade.
  • @rayfernando1337 Ray Fernando on x
    Holy moly!! Apple M5 Max has a massive PP (Prompt Processing) score. The M5 Ultra is going to be bananas. [image]
  • @digitalix Alex Ziskind on x
    Apple made some huge claims about the M5 Max, so I put it side by side with my M4 Max and an M3 Ultra to see what actually changed. One result caught me completely off guard. (NEW VIDEO link in reply) [image]
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    For M5 Max NPU/Neural Engine, here's a bit from GPT 5.4 codex playing around with it [image]
  • @lafaiel @lafaiel on x
    @mweinbach GPU RT acceleration performance improved a lot. It's up nearly 40% from M4 and even beat the M3 Ultra
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    From my testing, M5 Max is better than M3 Ultra in a lot of AI workloads on MLX. Can be up to 98% faster on some models. M5 Max has half the number of GPU cores, it's the new GPU IP and neural accelerators. M5 Max is insanely good.
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    You'll have more M5 Max stuff from me once ChatGPT makes this stupid chart (it's been running for 10 minutes) but it's extremely good. The idle package power on this thing averages like under 1W even without efficiency cores [image]
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    @lafaiel yup, here's some cyberpunk in gaming it's easily RTX 5080/5090M performance, without AI upscaling [image]
  • @mkbhd Marques Brownlee on x
    NEW VIDEO - This is what 2000 local dimming zones (Studio Display XDR) vs 576 (Pro Display XDR) looks like. Mini LED ftw Full review: https://www.youtube.com/... [video]
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    Studio Display XDR is amazing I've been digging it, the video I just recorded on it is uploading (twitter us slow) [image]
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    So I also got a Studio Display XDR and this thing is gorgeous. Speakers are amazing, camera is great, I really like it. [video]
  • @marks_tech @marks_tech on x
    I may never financially recover from this 🥲 Studio Display XDR MacBook Pro M5 Max [image]
  • @lanceulanoff Lance Ulanoff on x
    We tested the iPhone 17e, and it's an even better budget iPhone thanks to more storage, faster performance, and a smarter camera https://www.techradar.com/...