14-Inch MacBook Pro With M5 Chip Reviews: How Much Faster is SSD?

[MacRumors]

The first reviews of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip have been shared by selected publications and YouTube channels, ahead of the device launching this Wednesday. Apple began accepting pre-orders last week.

Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the new 14-inch MacBook Pro already surfaced prior to today, revealing that the M5 chip is up to around 20% faster in the laptop, compared to the equivalent previous-generation model with the M4 chip.

GPU improvements are more substantial, with the M5 chip offering up to 35% faster graphics compared to the M4 chip, according to Geekbench 6 results.

Beyond the M5 chip, there is only one notable change. The new 14-inch MacBook Pro supports PCIe 5.0 storage technology, and Apple says this results in up to 2× faster SSD read and write speeds compared to the previous-generation model.

The Verge's Antonio G. Di Benedetto ran the AmorphousDiskMark benchmark tool on the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, and the results he shared in the chart below confirm that SSD read and write speeds are actually a little more than twice as fast compared to the equivalent previous-generation model. However, the speeds are roughly on par with the higher-end 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip.

Image Credit: The Verge​

PetaPixel's Jeremy Gray achieved similar results for SSD speeds.

There is little else to say about the new 14-inch MacBook Pro.

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[BarredOwl]

"There is little else to say about the new 14-inch MacBook Pro." Love it!

 

[jack5789]

Has anyone else noticed the MacBook Pro is shaped like a V in the promotional materials, as V is the roman numeral for 5 (M5 chip)?

 

[Anonymous123]

"There is little else to say about the new 14-inch MacBook Pro." Love it!

Came here to say the same thing. No need to write a whole long article when there isn’t much new to report. The brief coverage on this one is much appreciated.

 

[everlast3434]

Faster for all of the Genmojis I make all day! Let's GOOO!

 

[Windoes]

Has anyone else noticed the MacBook Pro is shaped like a V in the promotional materials, as V is the roman numeral for 5 (M5 chip)?

Think we all saw it before launch, yes

 

[ralph_sws]

Has anyone else noticed the MacBook Pro is shaped like a V in the promotional materials, as V is the roman numeral for 5 (M5 chip)?

yes, on the day the presentation was announced, people noticed it

 

[gwang73]

I hate these comparisons. Who but a handful of YT reviewers are buying new MacBooks every year? I don't care how the M5 stacks up against the M4. I want to know how the M5 stacks up to the M1 or M2, where I'm more likely to make the upgrade, although I'm not.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

SSD is fast, just sound it out. sssssssssssd! Even sounds fast. On the contrary, BRR is slow.

 

[johannnn]

Who but a handful of YT reviewers are buying new MacBooks every year?

Well this is Macrumors. This is for Apple nerds.

For example, I think many people here update their phone every year. But not many ”regular” people do that

 

[delsoul]

I hate these comparisons. Who but a handful of YT reviewers are buying new MacBooks every year? I don't care how the M5 stacks up against the M4. I want to know how the M5 stacks up to the M1 or M2, where I'm more likely to make the upgrade, although I'm not.

Absolutely well said! Many people aren’t updating new laptops once a year like ages ago when computer tech really
Jumped in a years time. An M1 and M2
Comparison would be much more appropriate.

 

[gwang73]

Well this is Macrumors. This is for Apple nerds.

For example, I think many people here update their phone every year. But not many ”regular” people do that

Yeah, I do update my phone almost every year but not my MBP, iPad and Watch. I did skip the 16 and probably would've skipped 17 also if they didn't introduce the Air.

 

[hieranonymous]

Given that year-over-year GPU improvements are where Apple Silicon is currently advancing the most tangibly, it’s extra embarrassing that the Mac Pro is now three processor generations behind.

 

[Spock]

I hate these comparisons. Who but a handful of YT reviewers are buying new MacBooks every year? I don't care how the M5 stacks up against the M4. I want to know how the M5 stacks up to the M1 or M2, where I'm more likely to make the upgrade, although I'm not.

They generally purchase it, review it and then return it within the 14 day period. Some may get them from Apple but I've heard that is pretty rare.

 

[gwang73]

They generally purchase it, review it and then return it within the 14 day period. Some may get them from Apple but I've heard that is pretty rare.

You missed the point.

 

[freedomlinux]

Has anyone else noticed the MacBook Pro is shaped like a V in the promotional materials, as V is the roman numeral for 5 (M5 chip)?

oooo I can't wait for the M10 chips. Then they can make some kind of macOS "X" to go along with it!

 

[MRSugarD]

There is little else to say about the new 14-inch MacBook Pro.

😂

 

[TechRemarker]

Was excited about the 2x ssd speeds since so much batch work these days is now bottled necked by SSD speeds rather than CPU or memory. But seeing it's comparable to the M4 Max. Does that mean the M4 Max already use PCIe 5.0 and thus the M5 Max won't also get a 2x bump? Or was M4 Max not PCIe 5.0 and thus we still might see 2x for those upcoming computers too?

 

[Marx55]

That is NOT PCIe 5.0, which is this:

Breakthrough PCIe® 5.0 performance
Push PCIe 5.0 performance to the max. 9100 PRO achieves lightning-fast sequential read/write speeds up to 14,800/13,400 MB/s, two times faster than 990 PRO. Leave Gen4 limits behind with random read/write speeds up to 2,200K/2,600K IOPS, only possible by Gen5.

9100 PRO | Internal SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Experience exceptional speed with the Samsung 9100 PRO SSD, featuring PCIe 5.0 and sequential read/write speeds up to 14,800/13,400 MB/s.

semiconductor.samsung.com

In other words, the M6 chip will be much better for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and will probably bring true PCIe 5.0 with the speeds indicated above, and therefore with true twice as fast SSD inside for both sequential as MB/s and much more importantly random as Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) read/write similar to such Samsung 9100 Pro.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

 

[ikramerica]

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So assuming the 4TB there has denser SSD and double the chips.

What will we see from the 2TB and 4TB M5 setups.

 

[Kottu]

My M1 Pro 14” has a Memory bandwidth of up to 200GB/s. M5 has 153GB/s. So, it’s actually slower. As the core performance is better, I am sure that while using ”certain” apps, differences can be more noticeable. But for my purpose, M1 pro is good enough for few more years.
Apple did shook the industry with M1 and Pro MacBooks. But later they made them slower by using slower NANDs, lower bandwidth etc.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

So assuming the 4TB there has denser SSD and double the chips.

What will we see from the 2TB and 4TB M5 setups.

Reference from last year:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m4-mbp-ssd-speeds.2442283/

 

[ikramerica]

Reference from last year:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m4-mbp-ssd-speeds.2442283/

Okay. So your answer to a simple question is to read an entirely different thread that doesn’t mention the SSD layout of the M5?

 

[JohnC1959]

I hate these comparisons. Who but a handful of YT reviewers are buying new MacBooks every year? I don't care how the M5 stacks up against the M4. I want to know how the M5 stacks up to the M1 or M2, where I'm more likely to make the upgrade, although I'm not.

Yes, I want to know how much faster than my M2. I can probably find it from the same source, but regardless, this article is still very helpful since I'm quite sure my M2 is slower than the M4 so I know that I would see at least twice the SSD performance and very likely even more.