The entry MacBook Pro: the same M5 chip as the MacBook Air, but with a fan, so it holds its speed under long loads, plus the mini-LED XDR screen, HDMI, an SD slot and 24 hours of video. It games and renders a good step ahead of a fanless Air, but its 153GB/s of memory bandwidth and 32GB ceiling make it a 7-8B local-model machine, not a big-model one - for that, the M5 Pro starts where it stops.
Against the line-up
Geekbench 6 CPU
Geekbench 6 CPU
Geekbench 6 GPU
Blender Benchmark
Geekbench AI
The whole MacBook Pro line-up side by side, with prices
Every benchmark
Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.
Cyberpunk 2077
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p Ultra |
29.3fps | Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB 1920 x 1080, Ultra preset, FSR off |
| For This Mac |
44fps | Tom's Hardware, Oct 21, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core GPU, 32GB, nano-texture At 1920 x 1200, so it is not in the 1080p column |
Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama)
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Llama 2 7B Q4_0, Generation |
31.9tok/s | llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub), Oct 19, 2026 Apple M5, 10-core GPU, 153GB/s (the table lists by chip; this run was on a MacBook Air) llama-bench tg128 (generating 128 tokens), all layers on the GPU. |
| Llama 2 7B Q4_0, Prompt processing |
723tok/s | llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub), Oct 19, 2026 Apple M5, 10-core GPU, 153GB/s (the table lists by chip; this run was on a MacBook Air) llama-bench pp512 (reading a 512-token prompt), all layers on the GPU. |
Geekbench AI
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Core ML Neural Engine, Quantized |
59,256points | Macworld, Oct 21, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 16GB, 1TB, nano-texture Quantized score, from Macworld's Geekbench AI Neural Engine chart |
Blender Benchmark
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run |
1,979samples/min | Blender Open Data, Oct 19, 2026 Apple M5 (GPU - 10 cores), Metal, Blender 5.2.0 Median score over the three scenes, 31 submitted runs. Blender Open Data lists by chip, not by Mac. |
Geekbench 6 CPU
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-core | 18,054points | Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB Geekbench 6.7 |
| 17,926points | Tom's Hardware, Oct 21, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core GPU, 32GB, nano-texture |
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| Single-core | 4,326points | Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB Geekbench 6.7 |
| 4,288points | Tom's Hardware, Oct 21, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core GPU, 32GB, nano-texture |
Geekbench 6 GPU
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Metal |
77,007points | Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB Geekbench 6.7 GPU, Metal |
3DMark Steel Nomad
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run |
1,125points | Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB |
Cinebench 2024
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-core |
1,172points | Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB |
Sources
- Blender Open Data (results database)
- Macworld (review)
- Notebookcheck (review)
- Tom's Hardware (review)
- llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub) (results database)
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