Image Processing & Computer Vision - MacBook Pro M5 vs M4 Pro (12-CPU/16-GPU, Both 24GB RAM)

[Atom5225]

I’m upgrading from my 2020 Intel MacBook Pro. I’m a software engineer and mostly do personal work related to image processing and computer vision on mac.

In my country, 24GB RAM is the max option, and both of these cost exactly the same:

• M5 (24GB / 1TB)
• M4 Pro (12-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 24GB / 512GB)

Storage doesn’t seem like a big deal for me, but I’m not completely sure.
The M5’s new neural-accelerator additions on the GPU side make me a bit confused — I’m not sure how much they actually matter for my kind of work.

Which one would you go with?

 

[rb2112]

Seems to depend on your software choices, whether they can run using multiple cores, or GPUS, or (more recently) NPUs. I would look at your software specs and see that they recommend.
From another area of engineering...unfortunately, seems that single-core speed is the primary driver of many of my computations.
Which software packages are you using?

 

[C0re0]

I’m upgrading from my 2020 Intel MacBook Pro. I’m a software engineer and mostly do personal work related to image processing and computer vision on mac.

In my country, 24GB RAM is the max option, and both of these cost exactly the same:

• M5 (24GB / 1TB)
• M4 Pro (12-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 24GB / 512GB)

Storage doesn’t seem like a big deal for me, but I’m not completely sure.
The M5’s new neural-accelerator additions on the GPU side make me a bit confused — I’m not sure how much they actually matter for my kind of work.

Which one would you go with?

Hi,

there are two threads about M4pro vs M5; you can look it up here to get some ideas:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m4-pro-vs-m5-for-same-price.2470307/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m5-or-m4-pro.2469206/

 

[Atom5225]

Seems to depend on your software choices, whether they can run using multiple cores, or GPUS, or (more recently) NPUs. I would look at your software specs and see that they recommend.
From another area of engineering...unfortunately, seems that single-core speed is the primary driver of many of my computations.
Which software packages are you using?

Hi,

there are two threads about M4pro vs M5; you can look it up here to get some ideas:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m4-pro-vs-m5-for-same-price.2470307/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m5-or-m4-pro.2469206/

Thank you for your responses. I bought the M4 Pro two weeks ago. I thought having more GPU cores would be more useful for me.

 

[maflynn]

Thank you for your responses. I bought the M4 Pro two weeks ago. I thought having more GPU cores would be more useful for me.

Personally, I think the Pro varient has more upsides then the non-pro, even with the increase that the M5 offers.

Enjoy your new purchase, and good luck