It’s official: the M5 MacBook Pro is a class leader in one key area, and that bodes well for the M5 Pro and M5 Max.



  • Our tests show that Apple’s M5 chip achieves impressive results
  • The MacBook Pro M5 jumped to the top of our Cinebench R24 charts
  • It also posted solid SSD and gaming numbers compared to previous models.

Apple’s new M5 MacBook Pro feels like a bit of an update: There’s no new design and few new features, with the M5 chip being one of the only ways to differentiate it from its M4 predecessor. However, after we put the new model through its paces in our lab tests and Apple M5 MacBook Pro review, one thing became obvious: it’s absolutely world-leading in one important way.

In TechRadar’s internal testing, the M5 MacBook Pro scored 199 in single-core tests when run on the Cinebench R24 benchmark. That’s the highest single-core Cinebench R24 score we’ve ever seen, making the laptop a powerhouse when it comes to CPU-bound workloads. For comparison, we also tested last year’s Mac mini M4 using Cinebench R24, and it scored a slower 161.



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