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Re:MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System by BearOso on Friday March 20, 2026 @01:48PM (#47458091)
That first bullet is a bit sketchy. Benchmarks, particularly geekbench, may have increased 6x, but that's being manipulated.

The GPUs have become much larger, so 6.8x is believable there, as is the inclusion of a matmul unit boosting AI.

The 2.x numbers are the most realistic, especially because they represent actual workloads.

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Re:MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System by majormajor on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:00PM (#47458256)
Even the geekbench numbers from the link only ~doubled. For both single- and multi-core CPU and Metal GPU.
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