Apple has introduced updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models powered by its latest M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The new machines focus on improving performance for demanding creative, development, and AI workloads while also adding faster storage and improved connectivity. The announcement expands Apple’s professional laptop lineup following the earlier debut of the base M5 chip.
MacBook Pro with M5 Pro, M5 Max specifications and features
The new MacBook Pro models run on Apple’s M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, built on a new Fusion Architecture that connects two dies into a single system on a chip. This design integrates the CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, media engine, unified memory controller and Thunderbolt support on one platform, helping deliver higher performance for complex workloads.
Both chips feature an 18-core CPU made up of six high-performance “super cores” and twelve efficiency-focused performance cores, offering up to 30 percent higher performance in professional tasks. The graphics subsystem has also been upgraded with a next-generation GPU that scales up to 20 cores on M5 Pro and up to 40 cores on M5 Max. Each GPU core includes a Neural Accelerator designed to speed up AI processing.
Apple says the chips can deliver more than four times the peak GPU compute for AI compared with the previous generation, while also improving ray tracing performance for demanding visual effects and 3D rendering.
The laptops support up to 64GB unified memory on M5 Pro and up to 128GB on M5 Max, with memory bandwidth reaching 307GB/s and 614GB/s respectively. Storage now starts at 1TB and can go up to 8TB. Other features include a Liquid Retina XDR display with ProMotion up to 120Hz, Thunderbolt 5 ports, a new N1 wireless chip with Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, a 12-megapixel Center Stage camera, studio-quality microphones and a six-speaker system with Spatial Audio. Apple claims battery life can reach up to 24 hours depending on usage.
MacBook Pro with M5 Pro, M5 Max price and availability
Apple has opened pre-orders for the new MacBook Pro models, with sales beginning on March 11. In the United States, the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Pro chip starts at $2,199, while higher configurations cost more depending on memory, storage and GPU options.
The larger 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Pro processor starts at $2,699, while models powered by the M5 Max chip begin at $3,599, going higher depending on configuration choices such as GPU cores and memory capacity.
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