Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by bhouston on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:07PM (#45428981)

Will the base core count and mix between perf and efficient cores remain the same? That has lead to different scaling factors for the multicore performance than the single core metrics.

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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by zamadatix on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @06:32PM (#45432041)

Possibly, at least compared to the previous M4 generation. For the lowest tier M models to this point:

  M1 (any):  4P + 4E
  M2 (any):  4P + 4E
  M3 (any):  4P + 4E
  M4 (iPad): 3P + 6E
  M4 (Mac):  4P + 6E
  M5 (iPad): 3P + 6E (claimed)
  M5 (Mac):  Unknown

It's worth noting there are often higher tier models that still don't earn the "Pro" moniker. E.g. there is a 4P + 8E variant of the iMac which is still marketed as just having a normal M4.

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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by AtlasBarfed on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:15PM (#45433935)

Are these cores getting way more complex? Because there should be room for 2x - 3x as many cores with die shrinks at this point.

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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by astrange on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:47AM (#45434667)

If you get more space, you need a really good reason not to use that space on more cache.

Also, the size numbers are lies and aren't the actual size of anything.

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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by zamadatix on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @12:22PM (#45439619)

The die shrinks are less than the marketing numbers would make you believe, but the cores are getting significantly more complex. I think E cores had a 50% cache increase this generation, as an example.

The above summary also excludes the GPU, which seems to have gotten the most attention this generation (~+30%, even more in AI workloads).

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