Apple’s new M5 chip rivals M1 Ultra in early benchmarks

Earlier this week, Apple unveiled three new products with the M5 chip, built on the third generation 3nm process.

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How Apple’s M5 chip evolution compares to prior M-series gains

Now that Apple’s new M5 chip is widely available in three new products, benchmarks show how its progress tracks with prior generations.

M5 benchmark leak shows Apple's CPU outgunning Qualcomm's powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme

As for multi-core, the M5 lags behind the big desktop players by 20% to 30%, but those processors have a far bigger core count than 10-cores, of course. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme also defeats the M5 in multi-core, hitting 23,491, so it's 30% faster here (but don't forget that chip has 18-cores).

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