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