M5 Pro vs M4 Pro - This Should NOT be Possible..

M5 Pro versus M4 Pro. Are Apple's new super cores a stroke of genius or just marketing fluff? Well, first of all, they did add a bunch of brand new, never-before-seen midcourse and got rid of the ecores, which has some massive implications that we'll go through in this video because we're going to be testing everything from basic CPU performance to the heaviest stress test with thermal throttling, graphics, ray tracing, AI to see just how much better this insane M5 Pro chip is. So, let's jump into it. And yes, we are doing a battery life test. They're both set to 100% because those super cores with that new mix is supposed to be very, very helpful for battery life. But one of the things I'm most excited about is testing the SSD speeds because Apple apparently, holy smokes, they apparently upgraded the SSDs in the new M5 Pro. I cannot believe it. Are you kidding me? The read speed is almost 13,000 read compared to 5,000 on the M4 Pro. Over double. That's insane. Same thing for the right speed. Almost 10,000 megabytes per second. Over double. Again, how is Apple doing this? One of the reasons might be because Apple forces you to get 1 TBTE if you want an M5 Pro, which is basically $200 more expensive than the 512 on the M4 Pro, but that's insane. Jumping into Geekbench 6 for CPU performance, you can see I have the device info open here. We still have the same 24 gigs of base RAM, but on the M5 Pro, you can see we're at 4.61 GHz compared to 4.51 on the M4 Pro. You can see in this chart right here the actual core layout on the M4 Pro. We have four efficiency cores which honestly we thought why do we need those cores? They're not that fast. What's the point? We also had eight performance cores. Well, now Apple has replaced the 8P cores with five super cores on this base model. It's essentially the same performance [music] cores, but instead of the four ecores, they've added all of these 10 brand new mid cores, which should give us a great performance boost. So, let's run the CPU benchmark. All right, guys. We have our scores, and I am in disbelief. Look at this, guys. Almost 4,300 single core. That's 8.5% faster than the M4 Pro. 26,000 multi-core, 24% faster than the M4 Pro. And this is the base 15 core version of the M5 Pro. There's also the 18 core, the same 18 core that's in the M5 Max you can upgrade to. Believe it or not, this multi-core score essentially matches the M4 Max, and it's right behind the M3 Ultra desktop chip in a 14-inch MacBook. Of course, you know, we got to test web browsing. This is speedometer 3.1. Dang, guys. Almost 60. This is basically the fastest computer in the world right now for web browsing snappiness. And trust me, if you're upgrading from an older MacBook like the M1 or the M2 series, you're going to feel the difference in everyday use, web browsing basic apps, you can feel it. And now let's see how much that single core performance with those new M5 super cores actually matter for things like web design in Figma. This is a project provided to us by 500 Designs, one of the best design and marketing agencies in the US. So what I'm going to do is export 12 of these highresolution pages into PGs. And there you go. The M5 Pro finished in a minute 21 seconds, M4 Pro in a minute and 26. So almost the same performance for something simple like web design. Now where we are expecting a difference is in AI performance. So let's open up Geekbench AI because Apple did say they packed in AI accelerators into every single GPU core which we have the same 16 core GPU on the base M5 Pro as the base M4 Pro. So it's going to be interesting to see. We're doing the CoreML GPU backend. And dang, Apple, you are insane. We got 16,200 on the M4 Pro, 31,700, almost double on the new M5 Pro with the same 16 core GPU. That is shocking. And now let's do a realistic AI text to image generation test. This right here is Draw Things. I have stable diffusion version 2.1 set on both with 15 steps. Same exact prompt. Let's see how much faster it is. 39 seconds is what it took on the M4 Pro. 18 seconds on the M5 Pro. Over twice as fast with those new AI accelerators. That's crazy. And now let's get into testing the graphics performance. We have the Metal GPU benchmark in Geekbench [music] 6. The M4 Pro got 101,000 metal score. M5 Pro 122,000. So, RAW performance is only about 20% faster. So, it makes sense why Apple loaded in those AI accelerators. I'm curious to see if there's any difference in actual gaming performance. So, we have 3D Marks Steel Nomad Light Unlimited. Let's test that. It looks like we have 51.3 FPS compared to 63.7. That's 24% higher FPS, just a little bit better than the raw performance in Geekbench. And now let's test the Solar Bay Extreme Unlimited to see if the ray tracing cores got any faster. There you go. That's more like it. 53.8 compared to 35.7. 50% [music] higher FPS when it comes to ray tracing. That's crazy impressive for Gen over Gen with the same core count. So, how does that apply in the real world? Well, we have Blender [music] for some 3D video rendering. This is the party tug project. We're going to go ahead and render an image. And there you go. Not too bad. We got 50 seconds on the M4 Pro, 35 seconds on the M5 Pro. About 15 seconds faster. Just for some context, I pulled up our crazy M1 Max versus M2 Max, M3 Max, M4 Max comparison. The M3 Max 40 core took 30 seconds. So, just a little bit faster than this new base M5 Pro, which is a lot less expensive. [music] That is crazy. Keep in mind, this is 16 GPU cores versus 40 on the M3 Max, and it's almost as fast. 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Those are basically brand new mid cores that are supposed to be utilized fully in apps like Logic Pro, which previously the ecores would never be used at all because they're just not fast enough. And from the looks of it, we're able to run 290 tracks on the 15 core M5 Pro compared to 220 on the M4 Pro. That is actually very, very impressive considering the fact that we used to have the full eight performance cores, which are now rebranded as super cores, only [music] five on this machine. But because of those new midc cores, we're able to run so much more. And now let's move on to photo editing in Lightroom Classic. Let's see how those GPU improvements are going to help the exporting time. So, let's export 50 of these raw photos. And look at that, guys. That was very, very interesting. They both finished at exactly the same time, 41 seconds. So, how about we try 500 photos instead? All right, guys. This is weird. It seems like even in this bigger test, the M4 Pro is inching ahead. Why? What's happening? Well, I pulled up the CPU history here, and we can see that for some reason on the M5 Pro, all of these super cores are not being utilized to the fullest, which is strange because we're not limited by the GPU. You can see GPU usage is not fully maxed out. We're not limited by the RAM and the memory cuz we're not even using any swap right here. So, what is the limitation? And why are the super cores not being used? I don't know. Over here, we're getting a lot better utilization. All right, they're done. And believe it or not, but the M4 Pro was faster. 7 minutes 47 seconds, while the M5 Pro took 7 minutes 55. I don't know why. I don't know what's going on, but for some reason, these super cores were not being utilized. It just doesn't make any sense. And now, let's move on to video editing. The first thing we're going to do is an HVC export. Basically to see if [music] the encoders are any faster. And yep, the encoders are faster with the M5 Pro. Took a minute and 42 seconds compared to 2 minutes on the M4 Pro. That's lightning fast. And now we have some heavier footage. This is 8K ProRes RAW running on both. I'm just doing some playback. Feels smooth. But I do want to render everything and see how long it takes. 53 seconds on the M5 Pro, a minute and 14 on the M4 Pro. That's 20 seconds faster, even though Apple didn't mention anything about the ProRes encoders getting faster, but nice to see a great improvement. And finally, let's do Cinebench. We're going to do a 10-minute stress test multi-core. Let's see what we can figure out. Dang, look at that. Holy smokes. 70 watt CPU power spike right there compared to only 40. That's almost double. We can see on the M4 Pro, we have our EC cores, 2.59 PC cores. Now, on the M5 Pro, we have our PC cores and the M cores. But you can see how much more throttling we're getting with all of these right here compared to EC cores, which are staying completely flat. In terms of the temps, looks like the M4 Pro is a little bit hotter right now. It's 105°C compared to 103. That could be because it has more of those super performance cores, eight compared to five. Looking at the fan speeds, they both ramped up at basically the same pace. We're now maxed out on both of them. At least the right side. It's been about 6 minutes. Let's pull out the thermal cam. It look at temps. All right. Dang, I just saw 45 degrees Celsius right there on the M5 Pro. Very hot. Moving over to the M4 Pro. Look at the center right there. This is actually a little bit cooler. I think the highest I saw is 43ish. How the heck are they going to fit an M5 Max and cool it in this 14-inch chassis? Oh my gosh, guys. The battery life on the M5 Pro is 2%. It's draining insanely fast. 9% on the M4 Pro. I think I'm going to have to plug it in. And oh my gosh, it's starting to cut those peak cores. They just turned off. Zero. Ah. All right. So, I plugged them in. I stopped the test. I'm going to do it again one more time. But I want to talk about that battery life. I mean, I had 2% here, 9% on the M4 Pro. Consistently throughout this whole test, it's been about almost 3 hours of heavy testing. The M5 Pro was lower on the battery life, just using more power for that much faster chip. All right. And we have our scores. 5,100 on the M4 Pro, 6,700 on the M5 Pro. That's 32% faster in terms of multi-core CPU rendering. That's actually very impressive because in terms of multi-core and Geekbench, it was only 20% faster, but now we're getting 32. That is likely all due to the replacement of the ecores with the new super cores and midcores that are pulling more weight. And just looking at this score, this is absolute insanity for a chip that's in a 14-in MacBook. And now with all of that said and tested, what is our conclusion? How good is the M5 Pro compared to the M4 Pro? Is it good enough to actually upgrade? Well, we did get improvements across the board, especially in things like AI, which was twice as fast, and other things like Logic, which allowed us to run a lot more tracks. But in general, if you already have the M4 Pro, of course, it is not worth it because the laptop is basically the same in terms of all of the other features. However, Apple did make some great improvements. So, if you haven't upgraded in a few years, if you have, let's say, an M1 Pro and or M1 Max or M2 Pro or M2 Max, that is actually a reason where you could be upgrading to this machine. But the fact is that the performance per dollar that you're getting is insane because for 2,200 bucks, we're getting performance that smokes the old $3,500 plus Max machines. It's just insane. So, Apple, keep doing what you're doing. This performance is crazy levels, but we'll have to see how the M5 Pro compares to the new M5 Max. 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