MacBook Air M5 Vs M4 - The Best MacBook Deal is EVEN BETTER!

So then guys, it's new MacBook Air time. We had the new MacBook Air M5 in for review. Apple have sent me this. So I've got the new MacBook Air M5. And just to show you here, like I've got the box and everything. And on the back here, it does also say it's the M5 chip, and it's also got 16 GB of RAM, too. So yeah, this is going to be really, really cool to check out. Now, actually, what I'm just going to say here, so if you have a look here, the unboxing process, I'm not going to go into full details about it. You can see I was doing it and everything. Got it all out. And obviously, if you're in Europe or in the UK like me, yeah, you don't get a charger anymore inside the box, which a bit disappointing to see there. But overall, the new MacBook Air in its design language and everything like that with this M5 chip, not a lot has changed. The only main thing that has changed is the chip. So, I'm not really going to bother to go into let's check how great the screen is. Let's check how good the speaker is and the microphone array is and let's have a look at the body design because it's exactly the same as the previous generation to the previous generation before that and so on so forth. So, yeah, I can't be bothered as it were to do it cuz basically it is the same design. The main difference here is going to be the M5 chip. But today, what we're going to do is we're actually going to compare the M5 MacBook Air to the likes of the M4 MacBook Air. Both of these are 15inch models. I haven't got my hands on a 13-inch model just yet. So, just to make that aware for you guys, couple of little caveats here. One is is that this is the 10 core CPU, 10 core GPU in the M4 and also the M5. And also, we have 1 TB of storage in both of these models right here. So, yeah, I know the lowest is 512 and it's 256 for the M4, what it was before in the base life, but to keep things fair, I've got the same amount of storage and literally the same core setup in both of these MacBooks. So, we've also got 16 GB of RAM, too. And we're going to get started and let's do some benchmarking with us. And the first type of benchmarking I want to do for you guys and that is all to do with the actual speed of the actual storage inside of this and also doing web browsing. What kind of things would we see right there? Well, this is quite interesting to see. You can see that we are getting super fast storage this time with the MacBook Air here. And let's have a look at this in a chart. So, as you can see the big difference here, the M5 is delivering like two times faster read speeds and even faster for right speeds. It's absolutely nuts. And the main reason behind this is because the new M5 chip uses PCIe 4 whereas the old M4, M3, and before use PCIe3 connection for the storage there. So, we've got a big difference here. And as you can see that obviously opens it up more. And you can see that obviously storage speeds is way faster. Now this is like MacBook Pro kind of territory speeds that we were getting like in the M3 series like on the Max chip. So this is quite crazy to actually see the M3 Max kind of speeds. This is what you're getting now with a MacBook Air only two generations later with M5. So this is absolutely nuts and absolutely crazy to see that we've got right here. And I also ran speedometer 3.1. So you can see here that if you did your web browsing and things like this, obviously a quick little speed test. This does use quite a bit of say the actual hard drive sort of speed to cache things and so on so forth. You can see that we've got 39 compared to 32.2. It's 21% faster than what we've had before for the light. Again, this is unbel So again this is unbelievable for the kind of speeds that we are getting here. But then the next thing after that what you guys probably want to know about is what about CPU and obviously what kind of benchmarking have I done here to see what kind of speed differences what we've got? Well, I've done the whole kind of usual kind of suite. I've ran things like Geekbench. I've also ran things like Cinebench 2. So, let's have a look then at the scores then compared to both of these models. Let's start out with Geekbench. And as you can see here with the single core score that obviously you know we know that the M5 is faster. We saw this in the likes of the MacBook Pro, the iPad Pro for example. And yeah, we're getting about 4,263 compared to 3,732. So, this is a big difference. And then the in multi-core performance as well with this MacBook Air. We can see we're getting 17,860 compared to 14,81. This is a massive big leap again in another generation. And it's the same with Cinebench. In the single core score, M4 scored us 175. We got 205 with the M5. And the same with multi-core performance. Again, this is a massive leap we've got here. 738 to 1,120. And like I said, this is super impressive because remember, like I say, this is a 10 core CPU in both of these. These both have the six efficiency cores and the four performance cores in both of these. So, this is quite incredible to actually see this. But I guess the next question you want to know is we know about the CPU cores and benchmarking there. What about GPU cores? Well, I ran things like Geekbench Metal. I've also ran things like 3D Mark here, Nomad Light, as you can see right here. And I also ran Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p. And let's have a look then at the scores that we got right here. So we can see then for Geekbench Metal Score here that obviously that we have got a massive improvement here. Again, look at this. It's at 72% to 100% kind of sort of difference here. 75,771 compared to 55,146. And then the same with still Nomad Light. It's a little close but not much. And we can see 475 3762. And then the MacBook scoring that got 31.2 and then in frames per second. And then in frames per second in Cyberpunk, this was running at 1080p. This is what I scaled it down to. Obviously, I left this on Metal FX. This was on a sort of medium to high prefix here. We got 39 frames per second here in Cyberpunk and we got 54 frames per second. So this is more than playable to play Cyberpunk 2077 on an M5 MacBook Air. So again, this is super impressive what we are seeing here, the gains. But then there's also one more element that a lot of people are going into and this is to do with AI and running local AI on a MacBook. And the MacBook Air is very good at this, too. Obviously, there's going to be, you know, if you got yourself a Mac Studio or if you got the likes of say an M4 Max or M5 Max MacBook Pro, it's going to do a far better job, but generally speaking, the M5 and the M4 are still quite powerful for doing some kind of like AI bits and pieces. So, let's have a look at the scores right here. And we can see that for Geekbench AI, we got a good score here. 5,200 compared to 4,747. So, that was a good improvement what we did there. That was on the CPU doing that. Then if obviously I ran that on the GPU, we can see that obviously those new AI cores on the GPU are helping out a big time here. So yeah, we got a definitely a good speed of almost 42,000 here on average compared to the 35,640. And then it's the same with the Geekbench AI2. Obviously, what I was say, they're both blue here. So apologies about that. But that top one is the M4 MacBook Air and the bottom one is the M5 MacBook Air. there. But then after that running Alama QN 2.572B, how many tokens per second? I asked it to write something for me a,000 words. And you can see a massive difference here that obviously we got 34.7 tokens per second compared to 57.2 tokens per second. This is far higher on the M5 MacBook Air for doing your kind of local uh like large language models and everything like that. So, that is super impressive to see. But I know you guys also want to see AI making pictures and things like this and how long that takes because obviously that's an easier kind of benchmark. I asked the fusion B to make me a English sunny day, beautiful English sunny day as it were or sunrise and have a look at the actual speed how long it took right here to make these images. So obviously it was the same image and obviously on the M4 MacBook Air it could make this image in about 18 seconds just over that whereas the MacBook Air M5 took just under 14 seconds. So it's about 24% faster on the MacBook Air M5. And yeah, definitely a good increase there. So obviously, would you see a big difference here if you just generating one image? Probably not. But if you batched up say 10 plus images or more, yeah, you would see a big difference that the MacBook Air M5 is out in front. But after this, the next thing you guys want to know is probably about creator benchmark. So I'm talking about photo editing. I'm talking about the likes of say doing things like with Blender and also let's say video export. So, I've ran things like Final Cut Pro, as you can see right here in like Heavick and ProRes. And let's have a look at all the scores that we've got here all combined. So, let's have a look. So, like I said, creator benchmarks. And this time, what I'm going to say is lower is better across this whole board right here. So, doing Blender party tuck render here to complete that on the same kind of settings, but obviously the likes of the M5 took 45 seconds to complete that. Whereas on the M4, it took just under a minute. It was 59.4 seconds to complete it. Still very good, but obviously, yeah, M5 is out in front. And then Pixel Mator RAW export here. So, what I told it to do was export 10 raw photos all at the same time. And uh yeah, you can see the difference here that it actually took 11 seconds compared to 17.2. And then with Final Cut Pro Res, this was an eight minute video and obviously to basically export that um you can actually see the actual differences here. So we can see that we actually got around about 233 seconds on the M4 in Heavc and 194 seconds as well on the M5. But then when I did the actual ProRes export, well, you can see the actual differences that we got right here as well, but obviously they were making a big difference that obviously the M5 is definitely out in front. So, this has been quite cool to see. Now, obviously, we saw the M5 with the MacBook Pro, so the results are very similar to what we got. So, obviously, yeah, comparing a MacBook Pro M5 to an M MacBook Pro M4, we got very similar kind of scores. It's the same thing that's going on here with the MacBook Air. No surprises here. But the last chart you probably want to see is obviously battery life as you can see right here. And obviously I'm going to say this, it's quite interesting to see that the M5 is more powerful. But what we've actually got is we got a slightly more battery life. We've got 37% compared to 33%. Only a tiny bit difference here. I am going to say this, the MacBook Air M4 that I have got here with me has only got a count of 10 on it. So 10 battery counts. Whereas the MacBook Air M5, obviously the count on this is only three. So it's still very very new. They're basically brand new out the box. If the count was like a 100 difference, yeah, you could understand why the MacBook Air M4 was like 4% lower. But being that the count is only like seven difference, it's nothing really. It's going to be like quart of a percent if that kind of in battery difference. So yeah, it is definitely like I say this, the MacBook Air M5, it does seem like after doing all these tests is slightly more efficient and overall I think Apple have done a great job with the M5 chip like we got in the MacBook Pro M5, but obviously it's now been put inside the likes of the MacBook Air. So yeah, this is really really impressive to see that you can buy this obviously around about $500 cheaper or so than what you get with the MacBook Pro M5. Obviously, you do get that kind of LED kind of screen. You don't get miniLEDD. Obviously, you get half the amount of storage now and things like this, too. But overall, it's still a great machine, the M5 MacBook Air. But really, guys, that is everything comparing these two machines. Are you impressed by the MacBook Air M5? Well, let me know your thoughts in the comments below. And on that note, as well guys, it's time to end this video, too. 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The MacBook Air M5 vs MacBook Air M4 benchmarks Review Reveal a MASSIVE Performance Upgrade! Across Geekbench, Cinebench, AI workloads, Final Cut Pro, video editing, photo editing, and SSD read/write storage speed tests, the M5 MacBook Air is faster in every area. Export times, processing tasks, and real-world creator workflows all show clear improvements. This means the M5 MacBook Air delivers better performance for everyday users and creators alike. In this video, I break down the MacBook Air M5 vs M4 benchmark results and what they mean in real-world use. Subscribe for more Apple leaks, MacBook comparisons, and Apple Silicon performance tests. 🎶GET NEW AIRPODS HERE (Amazon Links) --------------------------------------------------- AirPods Max USB-C: https://amzn.to/3YU5mAo AirPods Pro 2: https://amzn.to/3OmWAGf AirPods 4 ACN: https://amzn.to/3CD9Ow3 AirPods 4: https://amzn.to/490nYmZ 💻 GET THE NEW M4 Max, M4 Pro, M4 MACS HERE (Amazon Links) --------------------------------------------------- M4 14” MacBook Pro: https://amzn.to/3YYkFbn M4 Pro/Max 14" MacBook Pro: https://amzn.to/3YW64x0 M4 Pro/Max 16" MacBook Pro: https://amzn.to/3V2PSZy M3 13" MacBook Pro: https://amzn.to/40TX3qW M3 15" MacBook Air: https://amzn.to/4fW1LIS M2 13" MacBook Air https://amzn.to/410WjA9 M4/M4 Pro Mac Mini: https://amzn.to/3KviSDi M2 Max/Ultra Mac Studio: https://amzn.to/4eMU1rE M4 24" iMac; https://amzn.to/3Z9bkxA 📱GET THE NEW IPHONES HERE (Amazon Links) --------------------------------------------------- iPhone 16 Pro Max: https://amzn.to/3Z9bkxA iPhone 16 Pro: https://amzn.to/416R1Dc iPhone 16: https://amzn.to/3CACsO8 iPhone 16 Plus: https://amzn.to/4g2vj7B iPhone 15: https://amzn.to/3CHrFBQ iPhone 14: https://amzn.to/4fzqx1I 📱GET THE NEW IPADS HERE (Amazon Links) --------------------------------------------------- iPad Pro M4 13 (2024): https://amzn.to/3On12EY iPad Pro M4 11 (2024): https://amzn.to/4fzqx1I iPad Air M2 11”: https://amzn.to/4eLCdNN iPad Air M2 13”: https://amzn.to/4g3rGi5 iPad 10th Generation: https://amzn.to/4eHzrsW iPad 9th Generation: https://amzn.to/3zVbZqa iPad Mini: https://amzn.to/3V1mLG8 MacBook Air M5 and Unboxing 0:00 Storage Read/Write Speeds 2:03 CPU - Geekbench, Cinebench 3:53 GPU - 3D Mark, CyberPunk 2077, Geekbench Metal 5:18 AI - Ollama LLM, Geekbench AI 6:44 AI - Image Generation DiffusionBee 8:27 Creator - Blender Party Tug, Hevc, ProRes & RAW Exports 9:17 Battery Life after Tests 11:16 Channel Site; http://www.youtube.com/c/MattDoesTech