Early M5 MacBook Pro benchmarks show a big boost over the M4

What appears to be the first benchmark score for the new M5 MacBook Pro has appeared online, and it’s fast.

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The M5 14-inch MacBook Pro – Image Credit: Apple

The new scores come courtesy of a benchmark result uploaded to the Geekbench database. With a single-core score of 4,263 and a multi-core score of 17,862, it certainly doesn’t disappoint.

For comparison, the M4 chip found in the previous-generation MacBook Pro scores around 14,700 in multi-core tests. That figure falls to around 3,770 in the single-core tests.

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