Danny Weber
19:09 17-10-2025
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Apple's M5 hits Geekbench in a pre-production MacBook Pro: 4,263 single-core beats Snapdragon X2, 17,862 multi-core lags; 10-core GPU, 4.61 GHz, 16 GB RAM.
Apple’s M5 has surfaced in the Geekbench database for the first time alongside a new MacBook Pro, lending weight to the improvements the company promised. The chip features a 10-core GPU, pairs with 16 GB of RAM, and reaches up to 4.6 GHz.
In Geekbench’s single-core test, the M5 scored 4,263 points—about 13% higher than the M4’s average of 3,748. In multi-core mode, it posted 17,862 points, a 17% gain over the previous generation’s 15,173, helped by a higher core count.
That puts Apple back on top in single-core performance, edging out Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme at 4,080 points. In multi-core tests, however, Qualcomm keeps the upper hand, which the core counts explain: 18 versus 10 for the M5.
Notably, the M5 reached these results at 4.61 GHz, while Qualcomm pushed its chip to 5.0 GHz. Apple’s scores were recorded on a pre-production MacBook Pro, whereas Snapdragon’s came from a Qualcomm reference laptop.
Taken together, that context makes Apple’s showing stand out, even as the multi-core lead remains with Qualcomm.