Apple has entered a new era of performance for its professional devices. On October 15, 2025, the company announced that the new 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro will all use the next-generation M5 chip.
This strategic move gives the whole product line a big boost in AI capabilities and graphics performance, making advanced AI workflows easier to use and more powerful than ever before. You can now pre-order all of the upgraded devices. They will be available for everyone on Wednesday, October 22.
The M5 Chip’s revolutionary architecture: The heart of the revolution
The M5 chip is at the heart of these updates. It is the next big step forward in AI performance for Apple silicon. The M5 is built on a third-generation 3-nanometer process and has a brand-new GPU architecture that was made from scratch for AI.
A key new feature is that each of the 10 GPU cores has its own neural accelerator. This makes GPU-based AI workloads run much faster and gives the M4 chip more than four times the peak GPU compute performance.
This design, along with a third-generation ray tracing engine, also makes graphics performance up to 45% better than the previous model.
The M5 also has a CPU that Apple calls the world’s fastest performance core. It can have up to four performance cores and six efficiency cores, which together make multithreaded performance up to 15% faster. The GPU’s AI power is boosted by a faster 16-core Neural Engine that does AI tasks on the device with amazing energy efficiency.
To support all of this power, Apple has increased the unified memory bandwidth by almost 30% to 153 GB/s. This lets the devices run bigger AI models completely on their own.
Apple says that the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 chip is the next big step forward in AI for the Mac. This means that users can expect up to 3.5 times the AI performance of the M4 model, which speeds up tasks like running large language models on their own computers or making images with diffusion models in apps like Draw Things.
The laptop’s battery life is also amazing, lasting up to 24 hours. This means that professionals can take these powerful workflows anywhere.
With the M5 chip, the iPad Pro gives you the best iPad experience ever. It has a lot of power and AI performance in a very portable design. The tablet’s AI performance is up to 3.5 times faster than the M4 model and up to 5.6 times faster than the M1 model.
With the new Apple-designed N1 chip, which has more memory bandwidth, faster storage, and support for Wi-Fi 7, it is a powerful tool for creating on the go.
The M5 chip makes Apple Vision Pro faster, smoother, and more responsive for spatial computing. The headset’s micro-OLED displays now show 10% more pixels, which makes the text sharper and the images more detailed.
Features that use AI, like capturing a Persona or turning 2D photos into 3D scenes, are now up to 50% faster. A new, more comfortable Dual Knit Band and a high-performance battery that can play video for up to three hours are also part of the upgrade.
Apple has made AI the main focus of its professional ecosystem’s future with the M5 chip. The new MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro all have powerful Neural Accelerators built right into the GPU.
This boosts the performance of the whole system and gives developers and users a strong platform for the next generation of apps, all while keeping the industry-leading power efficiency that Apple silicon is known for.
