Historic record from Apple

🔥 Apple M5 sets a historic record in Geekbench: the new king of single-core performance

Apple has once again reminded the industry who controls the numbers. The new Apple M5 chipset appeared in the Geekbench database and instantly rewrote the record table. In single-core mode, the M5 scored 4263 points — this is not just a new personal record for the company, but the absolute highest result among all existing processors ever tested.

And what is particularly intriguing — this is the 14-inch MacBook Pro, a model that doesn’t look like a “monster” externally, but inside, as it turns out, it houses a true beast.

Single-core breakthrough

Single-core performance is the main indicator of how quickly a device can handle any everyday tasks: from working with documents to processing photos and code. And here, the M5 didn’t just “slightly outperform” competitors. It pulled ahead of the M4 Max by almost 350 points, surpassed the M4 Pro and standard M4, and even left behind the flagship AMD Ryzen 9950X3D, known for its high frequency and aggressive architecture.

Essentially, Apple has officially created the fastest single-core processor on the market — and it’s in a laptop.

Geekbench: top five strongest

The current ranking looks like this:

1. Apple M5 (14″ MacBook Pro): 4263
2. Apple M4 Max (16″ MacBook Pro): 3914
3. Apple M4 Pro (16″ MacBook Pro): 3871
4. Apple M4 (Mac mini): 3784
5. AMD Ryzen 9950X3D: 3399

Interestingly, if you were browsing the list without context, you might think it’s just the top Apple processors, with a lone Ryzen accidentally thrown in.

Multi-core mode: almost caught up with M1 Ultra

If the single-core numbers look like a triumph, the multi-core scores are a confident march toward the workstation segment. In Geekbench 6, the chip scored 17,862 points, which:

• is 1,000 points higher than M3 Max,
• 20% higher than M4,
• makes it faster than M3 Pro,
• and brings it close to the legendary M1 Ultra found in large desktop Mac Studios.
  
  
  

Effectively, the compact MacBook Pro is already stepping on the heels of what Apple recently called its “professional monster.”

Why it matters

• Apple has radically updated chip architecture for the first time since the original Apple Silicon.
  
  
  
  
  
• Performance gains come without extreme increases in power consumption — the main advantage of Apple’s ARM platform.
• If the mobile M5 shows such results, the M5 Pro / M5 Max versions could once again reshape the professional laptop market in 2025.

🌀 Experts already anticipate that Apple is preparing a series of major releases early next year — M5 chips may form the basis of a new line of AI-focused devices.