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Apple’s M5 Max has small improvements that add up - The Verge
Publisher description: We put the M5 Max and the M5 processors to the test in the latest 2026 MacBook Pro and Air laptops to see how they compare to previous generations.
NewsAPI | Mar 9, 2026 | Cameron Faulkner, Nathan Edwards, Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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The M5 Max is about 10 percent faster in Geekbench CPU multicore and 14 percent faster in Cinebench 2026, but it has 12. 5 percent more cores. Compared to the 12 CPU core / 38 GPU core M2 Max from 2023, single CPU core performance in Geekbench 6 for the M5 Max is 55 percent faster, while multi-core performance nearly doubled. Metal rendering performance in a GPU test showed a 64 percent improvement in the M5 Max versus the M2 Max.
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