This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M5 Max chip.
| Name: M5 Pro Chip
Released: March 3rd, 2026 Codename: – Part Number: – Fabrication Process: *TSMC’s Transistor Count: – CPU ISA: ARMv9.2A . . Mem. Bus Width: 384 / 512 Bit Total channels: 24 / 32 Bit per channel: 16 Memory Type: ~Bandwidth: 460.8 / 614.4 GB/s Capacities: 36 / 48 / 64 / 128 GB |
CPU Information:
# of Super Cores: 6 S-Core clock: 4.61 GHz # of Performance Cores: 12 P-Core clock: 3.05 GHz Overall Cores: 18 S-L1i Cache: 192 KB per-core S-L1d Cache: 128 KB per-core P-L1i Cache: 128 KB per-core P-L1d Cache: 64 KB per-core S-Core L2 Cache: 16 MB?* P-Core L2 Cache: 8 MB?* System lvl Cache: ~48 MB* |
GPU Cores: 32 / 40
SIMD EU: 512 / 640 FP32 ALU: 4096 / 5120 GPU Clock: 1620 MHz FP32 (TFLOPS): 13.27 / 16.59 AI Cores: 16 AI OPS: > 38 TOPS Media Hardware acceleration: TDP: ~75W or more* |
Sources: (Apple Silicon, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M5, https://www.notebookcheck.net/M5-Pro-18-Core-vs-M5-9-Core_20889_19998.247596.0.html, https://tieba.baidu.com/p/10530250218?svcp_stk, May 2nd 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/
- Information with an * asterisk means this has yet to be fully confirmed but has been reported as such by at least one or more sources.
