MacBook Air 15″

7 chip options (M2 – M5)

M5 Generation Current

Spec M5
10c CPU / 10c GPU
Devices MacBook Air 15″
MacBook Air 13″
MacBook Pro 14″
iPad Pro 13″
iPad Pro 11″
Apple Vision Pro
CPU
CPU Cores 10
Super Cores 4
Super Core Speed (GHz) 4.61
Efficiency Cores 6
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.95
GPU
GPU cores 10
Execution Units 160
ALU Count 1280
GPU Frequency (GHz) 2005
TFLOPS 5.13
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 9th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16
Neural Engine TOPS 61
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 153.6
Memory bus width (bits) 128
Memory channels 8
Memory channel width (bits) 16
Memory type LPDDR5X-9600
Memory options (GB) 16
24
32
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1
Video Encode 1
ProRes Engines 1
AV1 Decode 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 3
Release date 2025-10-15

M4 Generation

Spec M4
10c CPU / 10c GPU
M4
9c CPU / 10c GPU
M4
8c CPU / 8c GPU
Devices iMac
Mac mini
iMac
CPU
CPU Cores 10 9 8
Performance Cores 4 3 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 4.4 4.4 4.4
Efficiency Cores 6 6 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.85 2.85 2.85
SLC Cache (MB) 20 20 20
GPU
GPU cores 10 10 8
Execution Units 160 160 128
ALU Count 1280 1280 1024
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1470 1470 1470
TFLOPS 4.26 4.26 3.41
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 38 38 38
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 120 120 120
Memory bus width (bits) 128 128 128
Memory channels 2 2 2
Memory channel width (bits) 64 64
Memory type LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR5X-7500
Memory options (GB) 8
16
24
32
8
16
24
32
8
16
24
32
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1 1 1
Video Encode 1 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1 1
AV1 Decode 1 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Release date 2024-05-15 2024-05-15 2024-05-15

M3 Generation

Spec M3
8c CPU / 10c GPU
M3
8c CPU / 8c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 8 8
Performance Cores 4 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 4.05 4.05
Efficiency Cores 4 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.75 2.75
L2 Cache (MB) 8 8
SLC Cache (MB) 8 8
GPU
GPU cores 10 8
Execution Units 160 128
ALU Count 1280 1024
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1380 1380
TFLOPS 3.533 2.826
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 7th-gen Apple 7th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 18 18
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 102.4 102.4
Memory bus width (bits) 128 128
Memory channels 8 8
Memory channel width (bits) 16 16
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400
Memory options (GB) 8
16
24
8
16
24
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1 1
Video Encode 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1
AV1 Decode 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 3 3
Transistors (billion) 25 25
Release date 2023-11-07 2023-11-07

M2 Generation

Spec M2
8c CPU / 10c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 8
Performance Cores 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.5
Efficiency Cores 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.42
L2 Cache (MB) 16
SLC Cache (MB) 8
GPU
GPU cores 10
Execution Units 40
ALU Count 1280
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1398
TFLOPS 3.578
GPU Vendor 5th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16
Neural Engine TOPS 15.8
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 102.4
Memory bus width (bits) 128
Memory channels 8
Memory channel width (bits) 16
Memory type LPDDR5-6400
Memory options (GB) 8
16
24
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1
Video Encode 1
ProRes Engines 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5
Transistors (billion) 20
Release date 2022-06-24