Current MacBook Lineup
The MacBook Pro 16″ and 14″ offer M5 Max and M5 Pro chips for demanding creative and development workloads. The MacBook Air 13″ and 15″ carry the base M5 — the best all-rounder for most people, with strong single-threaded performance and all-day battery life. The MacBook Neo slots in with an A18 Pro for ultra-portable use where weight matters more than sustained performance.
MacBook Air 15″
1 chip
M5 (10c CPU / 10c GPU)
MacBook Air 13″
2 chips
M5
MacBook Neo
1 chip
A18 Pro (6c CPU / 5c GPU)
MacBook Pro 16″
3 chips
M5 Pro – M5 Max
MacBook Pro 14″
5 chips
M5 – M5 Max
Chip Comparison
| Spec | M5 10c CPU / 10c GPU |
M5 10c CPU / 8c GPU |
A18 Pro 6c CPU / 5c GPU |
M5 Max 18c CPU / 40c GPU |
M5 Max 18c CPU / 32c GPU |
M5 Pro 18c CPU / 20c GPU |
M5 Pro 15c CPU / 16c GPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices |
MacBook Air 15″ MacBook Air 13″ MacBook Pro 14″ iPad Pro 13″ iPad Pro 11″ Apple Vision Pro |
MacBook Air 13″ | MacBook Neo |
MacBook Pro 16″ MacBook Pro 14″ |
MacBook Pro 16″ MacBook Pro 14″ |
MacBook Pro 16″ MacBook Pro 14″ |
MacBook Pro 14″ |
| CPU | |||||||
| CPU Cores | 10 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 15 |
| Super Cores | 4 | 4 | – | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Super Core Speed (GHz) | 4.61 | 4.61 | – | 4.61 | 4.61 | 4.61 | 4.61 |
| Performance Cores | – | – | 2 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 |
| Performance Core Speed (GHz) | – | – | 4.04 | – | – | – | – |
| Efficiency Cores | 6 | 6 | 4 | – | – | – | – |
| Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) | 2.95 | 2.95 | 2.42 | – | – | – | – |
| CPU ISA | – | – | ARMv9.2-A | – | – | – | – |
| GPU | |||||||
| GPU cores | 10 | 8 | 5 | 40 | 32 | 20 | 16 |
| Execution Units | 160 | 128 | – | 640 | 512 | 320 | 256 |
| ALU Count | 1280 | 1024 | – | 5120 | 4096 | 2560 | 2048 |
| GPU Frequency (GHz) | 2005 | 2005 | – | 2005 | 2005 | 2005 | 2005 |
| TFLOPS | 5.13 | 4.11 | – | 20.53 | 16.42 | 10.27 | 8.21 |
| Ray Tracing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GPU Vendor | 9th-gen Apple | 9th-gen Apple | Apple | 9th-gen Apple | 9th-gen Apple | 9th-gen Apple | 9th-gen Apple |
| NPU | |||||||
| Neural Engine cores | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Neural Engine TOPS | 61 | 61 | 35 | 61 | 61 | 61 | 61 |
| Memory | |||||||
| Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | 153.6 | 153.6 | 60 | 614 | 460 | 307 | 307 |
| Memory bus width (bits) | 128 | 128 | – | 512 | 384 | 256 | 256 |
| Memory channels | 8 | 8 | – | 32 | 24 | 16 | 16 |
| Memory channel width (bits) | 16 | 16 | – | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Memory type | LPDDR5X-9600 | LPDDR5X-9600 | LPDDR5 | LPDDR5X-9600 | LPDDR5X-9600 | LPDDR5X-9600 | LPDDR5X-9600 |
| Memory options (GB) |
16 24 32 |
16 24 32 |
8 |
48 64 128 |
36 |
24 48 64 |
24 48 |
| Media Engine | |||||||
| Hardware Acceleration |
H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW |
H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW |
H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW |
H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW |
H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW |
H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW |
H264 HEVC ProRes ProRes RAW |
| Video Decode | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Video Encode | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| ProRes Engines | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| AV1 Decode | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Semiconductor Tech | |||||||
| Process node (nm) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Release date | 2025-10-15 | 2026-03-03 | 2026-03-04 | 2026-03-03 | 2026-03-03 | 2026-03-03 | 2026-03-03 |