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MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5, 2025)

Name: MacBook Pro 14-inch (M5, 2025)
Brand: Apple

M5Released October 22, 2025Launch price $1,599 (launch price, 16GB / 512GB; $1,699 with 1TB from Mar 2026, $1,999 since 25 Jun 2026)

Best Buy · M5 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GB, 1TB, Space Black Check price at Best Buy Amazon · M5 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GB, 1TB, Space Black Check price on Amazon

Geekbench 6 CPU Single-core4,326points#2 of 4 Geekbench 6 CPU Multi-core18,054points#4 of 4 Geekbench 6 GPU Metal77,007points#4 of 4 Geekbench 7 CPU Single-core3,643points#5 of 5

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.

Caution MacBook Pro 233days since update

Getting late in the cycle: an update may not be far off. Last updated March 3, 2026, MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch (M5 Pro and M5 Max); the last 4 updates came every 285 days on average. Next: MacBook Pro models with OLED displays and a 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M6 chip, expected to be announced around 27-28 October and released Friday, 6 November 2026. (MacRumors, citing Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, 2026-10-18)

Against the line-up

Geekbench 6 CPU Single-core · points

#2 of 4 · Notebookcheck

1MacBook Pro 16 M5 Max4,336
2MacBook Pro 14 M54,326
3MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max4,322
4MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro4,295

Geekbench 6 CPU Multi-core · points

#4 of 4 · Notebookcheck

1MacBook Pro 16 M5 Max30,057
2MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max29,415
3MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro28,436
4MacBook Pro 14 M518,054

Geekbench 6 GPU Metal · points

#4 of 4 · Notebookcheck

1MacBook Pro 16 M5 Max224,987
2MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max222,275
3MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro137,187
4MacBook Pro 14 M577,007

Geekbench 7 CPU Single-core · points

#5 of 5 · Geekbench Browser

Geekbench 7 CPU Multi-core · points

#5 of 5 · Geekbench Browser

1MacBook Pro 16 M5 Max35,090
2MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max34,566
3MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro33,605
4MacBook Pro 14 M5 Pro29,565
5MacBook Pro 14 M517,952

Geekbench 7 GPU Metal · points

#5 of 5 · Geekbench Browser

1MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max194,380
2MacBook Pro 16 M5 Max193,395
3MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro136,209
4MacBook Pro 14 M5 Pro124,541
5MacBook Pro 14 M572,647

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p Ultra · fps

#4 of 4 · Notebookcheck

1MacBook Pro 16 M5 Max103
2MacBook Pro 14 M5 Max91.3
3MacBook Pro 16 M5 Pro57.8
4MacBook Pro 14 M529.3

Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama) tg128 Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · tok/s

#5 of 5 · llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub)

Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama) pp512 Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · tok/s

#5 of 5 · llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub)

Blender Benchmark samples/min

#5 of 5 · Blender Open Data

Geekbench AI Core ML Neural Engine, Quantized · points

#1 of 2 · Macworld

1MacBook Pro 14 M559,256
2MacBook Pro 16 M5 Max58,616

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 one source	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 one source	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
pp512 Llama 2 7B Q4_0, Prompt processing one source	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.
tg128 Llama 2 7B Q4_0, Generation one source	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.

Geekbench AI

Setting	Result	Source
Core ML Neural Engine, Quantized one source	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 one source	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
Multi-core	17,926points	Tom's Hardware, Oct 21, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core GPU, 32GB, nano-texture
Single-core	4,326points	Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB Geekbench 6.7
Single-core	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 one source	77,007points	Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB Geekbench 6.7 GPU, Metal

Geekbench 7 CPU

Setting	Result	Source
Multi-core one source	17,952points	Geekbench Browser, Sep 24, 2026 MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2025), Apple M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU Geekbench Browser's Mac chart (Geekbench 7, the average of user-submitted results), as archived on 24 Sep 2026. Not comparable with Geekbench 6 scores.
Single-core one source	3,643points	Geekbench Browser, Sep 24, 2026 MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2025), Apple M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU Geekbench Browser's Mac chart (Geekbench 7, the average of user-submitted results), as archived on 24 Sep 2026. Not comparable with Geekbench 6 scores.

Geekbench 7 GPU

Setting	Result	Source
Metal one source	72,647points	Geekbench Browser, Sep 24, 2026 MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2025), Apple M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU Geekbench Browser's Mac chart (Geekbench 7, the average of user-submitted results), as archived on 24 Sep 2026. Not comparable with Geekbench 6 scores.

3DMark Steel Nomad

Setting	Result	Source
Standard run one source	1,125points	Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB

Cinebench 2024

Setting	Result	Source
Multi-core one source	1,172points	Notebookcheck, Oct 23, 2025 MacBook Pro 14 M5, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB

Specs

Chip	Apple M5 (10-core CPU, 10-core GPU)
CPU cores	10 (4 super, 6 efficiency)
GPU cores	10
Memory (base)	16 GB
Memory (max)	32 GB
Memory bandwidth	153 GB/s
Storage (base)	1000 GB
Display	14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR (mini-LED), 3024 x 1964, 120Hz, 1600 nits HDR peak
Battery (video)	24 h
Weight	1.55 kg
Ports	3x Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C), HDMI, SDXC card slot, MagSafe 3, headphone jack

From Apple: MacBook Pro tech specs (2026-10-19), Apple Newsroom: the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 (2025-10-15), Apple Newsroom: MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (2026-03-03), 9to5Mac: Apple raises Mac and iPad prices (25 June 2026) (2026-06-25).

Compare it

Sources

Blender Open Data (results database)
Geekbench Browser (results database)
Macworld (review)
Notebookcheck (review)
Tom's Hardware (review)
llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub) (results database)

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