New Geekbench scores have surfaced showing Apple's upcoming M5 chip delivering a staggering 40% improvement in multi-core performance over the M4, confirming expectations that the new silicon will be a significant generational leap.

Benchmark Results

The leaked benchmarks show the M5 scoring approximately 4,200 in single-core and 18,500 in multi-core tests on Geekbench 6. These figures represent a roughly 25% improvement in single-core and 40% improvement in multi-core performance compared to the M4.

Perhaps more impressively, the M5 achieved these scores while reportedly consuming 20% less power than the M4, thanks to TSMC's advanced 2nm process node.

Architecture Details

The M5 is expected to feature a 14-core CPU configuration with 6 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores, up from the M4's 10-core design. The GPU is rumored to jump to 12 cores in the base model, with the M5 Pro and M5 Max offering even more.