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Marketing: M5 announcement [1] says 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4. I guess in the lab? Both iPad and MBP M5 [2][3] say "delivering
by outcoldman 1y ago
Marketing:
M5 announcement [1] says 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4. I guess in the lab?
Both iPad and MBP M5 [2][3] say "delivering up to 3.5x the AI performance". But all the examples of AI (in [3]), they are 1.2-2.3X faster than M4. So where this 3.5X is coming from? What tests did Apple do to show that?
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1. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-the-next-big-leap-in-ai-performance-for-apple-silicon/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-th...
2. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unveils-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-powered-by-the-m5-chip/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unveils-new-14-...
3. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-introduces-the-powerful-new-ipad-pro-with-the-m5-chip/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-introduces-the-...
- relativeadv 1y agoIts not uncommon for Apple and others to compare against two generations ago rather than the immediately preceding one
- outcoldman 1y agoI referenced everything about comparing to M4. I left outside the comparison with M1.
- storus 1y agoM5 is supposed to support FP4 natively which would explain the speed up on Q4 quantized models (down from BF16).