Recently a website called BeeBom posted some benchmarks which reflect what appears to be the new Late 2025 14-Inch M5 MacBook Pro. If there is any indication from this artificial “water pressure test”, the M5 surely has cutting-edge single core performance.
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Comparing it to a 15-Inch M4 MacBook Air
Now that we finally have what appears to be a real-world M5 chip benchmark from a Mac, we can compare it to the performance of a 15-Inch M4 MacBook Air. A base M5 looks to have ~15% better multi-core and single core performance versus even the M4, which would make this the snappiest, most blazing-fast feeling Mac to-date.
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M5 MacBook Pro vs 8-Core 3.2 GHz 2008 Mac Pro
We’ve come an incredibly long way since 2008 – the days of the iPhone 3G, Mac OS X Leopard, the Aluminum MacBook, etc; now, you can get 8 – 10x the power of a 2008 Mac Pro, in an M5 MacBook Pro.
