Apple today announced its M5 chip, slated to upgrade the new MacBook Pros , iPad Pro and Vision Pro headset . The improvements to the architecture over the M4 seem to mirror those that Apple made to its A19 Pro chip for the iPhone 17 Pro , especially targeting AI and graphics performance in addition to the usual year-over-year bumps.

Core counts more or less follow Apple's usual pattern, topping out with a couple more performance cores in the CPU (up to 10 total cores) and the same counts for the GPU (10) and Neural Accelerator (16) compared to the M4. The differences, and potential performance improvements, mostly lie in the architecture.

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