
Shortly after its release, the Apple M5 chip powering the new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro appeared on a popular benchmark database. The results were impressive: in one test, the processor even set a world record for its class.
In the single-threaded test, the new processor scored 4,263 points, compared to 3,748 for the previous generation. This makes it the most powerful consumer processor based on the ARM architecture. By comparison, the desktop Intel Core i9-14900KS (x86-64) scored 4,457 points in the same scenario.
The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, considered Apple's main competitor to the M-series processors in laptops, scored just under 4,100 points in single-threaded performance, but boasts a significantly higher clock speed. However, despite having nearly twice the number of cores (18 versus 10), it boasts superior multi-threaded performance.