The first reviews of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip have been shared by select publications and YouTube channels ahead of the device’s launch this Wednesday. Apple started accepting pre-orders last week.
Geekbench 6 benchmark results for the new 14-inch MacBook Pro have already been released earlier today, revealing that the M5 chip in the laptop is about 20% faster than the equivalent previous-generation model with the M4 chip.
According to Geekbench 6 results, the GPU improvements are more significant with the M5 chip offering up to 35% faster graphics compared to the M4 chip.
Outside of the M5 chip, there’s only one notable change. The new 14-inch MacBook Pro supports PCIe 5.0 storage technology and Apple says this results in 2× faster SSD read and write speeds than previous generation models.
The VergeAntonio G. Di Benedetto ran the AmorphousDiskMark benchmark tool on the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, and the results he shares in the chart below confirm that SSD read and write speeds are actually a little more than twice as fast as the equivalent previous-generation model. However, the speed is roughly on par with the higher-end 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro chip.
Image credit: The VergePetapixelIts Jeremy Gray achieved similar results for SSD speed.
Not much else to say about the new 14-inch MacBook Pro.
