Apple Unveils M5 Chip with 4x AI Performance Boost, Powers New MacBook Pro and Vision Pro

Oct 16, 2025
Apple Newsroom
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Summary

Apple launches revolutionary M5 chip delivering 4x AI performance boost and 45% graphics improvement over M4, powering new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro devices now available for pre-order with enhanced ray tracing and 120Hz displays.

Key Points

  • Apple announces M5 chip with over 4x peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation 10-core GPU with Neural Accelerators in each core and 15% faster multithreaded CPU performance
  • The M5 chip delivers up to 45% higher graphics performance than M4 with third-generation ray tracing, enhanced shader cores, and nearly 30% increase in unified memory bandwidth to 153GB/s
  • M5 powers new 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro devices available for pre-order today, with Apple Vision Pro now rendering 10% more pixels at up to 120Hz refresh rates

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