The 16-inch only comes with the full M5 Pro (18-core CPU, 20-core GPU), a bigger battery and a larger cooler, so it sustains its speed better than the 14-inch. It runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p Ultra near 60 fps and generates text from a 7B local model at over 60 tokens a second; up to 64GB of memory fits mid-size models, though anything past that needs the M5 Max.
Against the line-up
Geekbench 6 CPU
Geekbench 6 CPU
Geekbench 6 GPU
Blender Benchmark
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 |
57.8fps | Notebookcheck, Mar 9, 2026 MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro, 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB 1920 x 1080, Ultra preset, FSR off |
Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama)
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Llama 2 7B Q4_0, Generation |
66.3tok/s | llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub), Oct 19, 2026 Apple M5 Pro, 20-core GPU, 307GB/s (the table lists by chip) llama-bench tg128 (generating 128 tokens), all layers on the GPU. |
| Llama 2 7B Q4_0, Prompt processing |
1,621tok/s | llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub), Oct 19, 2026 Apple M5 Pro, 20-core GPU, 307GB/s (the table lists by chip) llama-bench pp512 (reading a 512-token prompt), all layers on the GPU. |
Blender Benchmark
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run |
4,233samples/min | Blender Open Data, Oct 19, 2026 Apple M5 Pro (GPU - 20 cores), Metal, Blender 5.2.0 Median score over the three scenes, 30 submitted runs. Blender Open Data lists by chip, not by Mac. |
Geekbench 6 CPU
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-core |
28,436points | Notebookcheck, Mar 9, 2026 MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro, 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB Geekbench 6.7 |
| Single-core |
4,295points | Notebookcheck, Mar 9, 2026 MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro, 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB Geekbench 6.7 |
Geekbench 6 GPU
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Metal |
137,187points | Notebookcheck, Mar 9, 2026 MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro, 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB Geekbench 6.7 GPU, Metal |
3DMark Steel Nomad
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run |
2,323points | Notebookcheck, Mar 9, 2026 MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro, 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB |
Cinebench 2024
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-core |
2,347points | Notebookcheck, Mar 9, 2026 MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro, 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB |
Sources
- Blender Open Data (results database)
- Notebookcheck (review)
- llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub) (results database)
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