Apple M5 is official and it’s entirely optimized for AI | Infinium-tech
Today Apple introduced the updated MacBook Pro and Vision Pro, both with the new M5 chip inside. It delivers “over 4x the highest GPU compute performance for AI” compared to its predecessor, the M4. Each of its GPU cores has a neural accelerator.
It is built using third-generation 3nm technology, and its CPU apparently features “the world’s fastest performance cores.” The CPU has up to 10 cores, of which four are performance cores and six are efficiency cores. Together, they deliver 15% better multithreaded performance than the M4.
The M5 has an approximately 30% increase in memory bandwidth to 153GB/s, supports a maximum of 32GB of RAM, and a 45% improvement in overall graphics performance compared to the M4. Apple says that “every compute block of the chip is optimized for AI”, and that means new products using the M5 “benefit from dramatically accelerated processing for AI-powered workflows, like running diffusion models in apps like Draw Things, or running large language models natively using platforms like WebAI”.
The new ray tracing engine offers an increase of up to 45%, and combined with “rebuilt second-generation dynamic caching”, the GPU should deliver “smoother gameplay, more realistic visuals in 3D applications, and faster rendering times for complex graphics projects.”
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