Apple releases M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, supporting higher intensity local AI workflows According to the official website of Apple, the company has launched the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips for the new MacBook Pro, which for the first time adopt the Fusion Architecture that encapsulates two third-generation 3nm chips into a single SoC. Both chips are equipped with 18 core CPUs (including 6 super cores and 12 brand new performance cores), with multi-threaded performance up to 2.5 times faster than M1 Pro/M1 Max, and some professional workflows up to 30% faster. The GPU has up to 40 cores and integrates Neural Accelerator in each GPU core, combined with higher bandwidth unified memory, resulting in a more than 4-fold increase in AI peak GPU computing power compared to the previous generation. M5 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory and 307GB/s bandwidth; The M5 Max supports up to 128GB of unified memory, 614GB/s bandwidth, and integrates 16 core Neural Engine, AV1 decoding, ProRes encoding and decoding, and Thunderbolt 5 controller. The new MacBook Pro will be launched on March 11th.