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

ikramerica said:
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?
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It wasn't a simple question though was it? Both of your sentences could have been questions but due to incorrect punctuation you came across as just musing. Your response is a bit narky to someone who was just trying to be helpful.
 
gwang73 said:
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.
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Ever thought about people who have an M1 and are considering jumping to the latest M5 or getting an M4 at a reduced price? I’m sure to them the comparison is valid.
 
justanotherdave said:
Ever thought about people who have an M1 and are considering jumping to the latest M5 or getting an M4 at a reduced price? I’m sure to them the comparison is valid.
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Yes, exactly. I don’t care how much faster the m5 is compared to my current computer. I want to know if it’s worth buying a new m5 over a used m4. And for curiosity’s sake, I think most want to know how much the new model has improved over the previous.
 
gwang73 said:
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.
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You don't need to buy a computer for such a comparison to be valid. I don't own a M4-based machine, but knowing the amount of improvement of the M5 MBP over the M4 still interests me, and it still gives me an understanding of this chip and storage. That seems to be the point of MR publishing articles like this one.

Also, not every story is going to be tailored to your specific situation, or mine. MR isn't going to reach back randomly three or four device generations as the baseline for an early comparison story like this one, when it makes more sense to provide perspective on how a machine stacks up to its immediate predecessor.
 
Has anyone managed to find read and write speed figures for the 512 GB version? Everyone seem to be comparing the 1 TB version only. From the M4 Mac mini figures it seems there is a very big difference in speed between the 256 and the 512 GB versions.
 
gwang73 said:
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.
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Could be useful to people who might considering buying a discounted M4 instead of the new M5.
 
mrmod said:
So the M5 supports PCIe 5, but the SSD runs at PCIe 4 speeds.. Awesome...
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The M5 is the base model. I expect they will equip the M5 Pro/Max/Ultra with faster SSDs.
Besides that, PCIe 4.0 x4 is still fast (7.877 GB/s theoretical maximum), and most PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers still use a more power, which does generate more heat and thus potentially more fan noise.
 
mrmod said:
So the M5 supports PCIe 5, but the SSD runs at PCIe 4 speeds.. Awesome...
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This is the part they left out of their tests. Typically, we see that Macs with more storage, particularly more storage chips, have faster SSD performance.

So when we compare Macs, we have to compare Apples to Apples.
 
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