Apple Silicon – M5 chip specs

This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M5 chip.

 

 

Name: M5 Chip

Released: October 15th, 2025

Codename:

Part Number:

Fabrication Process: *TSMC’s
3-Nanometer-P

Transistor Count:

CPU ISA: ARMv9.2A

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Memory Bus Width: 128-bit

Total channels: 8

Bit per channel: 16-Bit

Memory Type:
LPDDR5X-9600 (4800 MHz)

~Bandwidth: 153.6 GB/s

Capacities: 12 / 16 / 24 / 32 GB

CPU Information:

# of Super Cores: 3 / 4

S-Core clock: 4.61 GHz

# of Efficiency Cores: 6

E-Core clock: 3.05 GHz

Overall Cores: 9 / 10

S-L1i Cache: 192 KB per-core
• P-L1i Total: 576/768 KB •

S-L1d Cache: 128 KB per-core
• P-L1d Total: 384/512 KB •

E-L1i Cache: 128 KB per-core
• E-L1i Total: 768 KB •

E-L1d Cache: 64 KB per-core
• E-L1d Total: 384 KB •

S-Core L2 Cache: 16 MB
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E-Core L2 Cache: 6 MB

System lvl Cache: ~32 MB?

GPU Cores: 8 / 10

SIMD EU: 128 / 160

FP32 ALU: 1024 / 1280

GPU Clock: 1620 MHz

FP32 (TFLOPS): 3.32 / 4.15

AI Cores: 16

AI OPS:

Media Hardware acceleration:
H264, HEVC, ProRes,
ProRes RAW, AV1

TDP: 27W

 


Source: (Apple Silicon, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M5, April 30th 2026.)

Apple Newsroom Press release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/

 

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