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Apple M2 (8-GPU) vs Apple M5

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 62 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M5

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 61 %

Apple M2 (8-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M5

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

120 pts

9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz

198 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

2,596

9C / 9T · 4.61 GHz

4,133

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.50 GHz

10,062

9C / 9T · 0.91 GHz

16,472

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M2 (8 Core)

2,840

Apple M5 (10 Core)

5,133

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 10 Benchmark
25 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M5
Family	Apple M series (38)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple M2 (8)	Apple M5 (6)
Architecture	M2	M5
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple M1	Apple M4
Successor	Apple M3 (8-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M5
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	9 / 9
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz	3x P-Core 0.91 - 4.61 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz	6x E-Core 0.90 - 3.05 GHz
L2-Cache	20.00 MB	28.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M5
GPU name	Apple M2 (8 Core)	Apple M5 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.45 - 1.40 GHz	0.34 - 1.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	128 / 1024	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	24 GB	24 GB
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M5
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 60 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M5
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)	LPDDR5X-9600 (153.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	24 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M5
TDP	20 W	17 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W	15 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M2 (8-GPU)	Apple M5
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS, iPadOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	Armv9.2-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation, AVX2, SME
Release date	Q2/2022	Q4/2025
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M2 (8-GPU) is 4.6 stars (111 ratings), while Apple M5 has received 4.6 stars (412 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M2 (8-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M5
9C / 9T · 0.91 - 4.61 GHz

★★★★★