Apple just revealed its new M5 chip earlier this week alongside M5 versions of a new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and a refreshed Apple Vision Pro. And now the first alleged benchmark result for the chip has leaked for the 14-inch MacBook Pro.

Based on the single result uploaded to Geekbench 6 today (October 17), the M5 chip is impressive and significantly faster than the M4 CPU. In single-core performance, the CPU reached a score of 4,263.

As far as I can tell, that number may be the highest single-core score ever submitted to the Geekbench 6 database from either a Mac or PC chip. The next highest scores I can see are an M4 Max at 3914 and an AMD Ryzen 9 at 3399.

The unconfirmed test hit a score of 17,862 in multi-core performance, which is about 20% faster than the M4 chip fromthe M4 MacBook

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