M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

Ars Technica
By Andrew CunninghamMar 3, 2026, 1:41 pm136 ptsTrending
As part of today's MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally, the Pro and Max chips take the same basic building blocks from the basic chip and just scale them up—more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and more memory bandwidth. But the M5…

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