Apple Launches MacBook Pro M5: Improved AI Performance and Longer Battery Life

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Apple officially introduced the newest 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip.

According to Apple official website, this cutting-edge device promises a major leap in performance, especially in artificial intelligence (AI) and graphics.

Along with the updated iPad Pro and Apple Vision Pro, the MacBook Pro M5 is available for pre-order starting October 15, 2025.

Units will ship and be available in physical stores starting October 22, 2025 and consumers in the United States can purchase it starting at $1,599.

“MacBook Pro continues to be the world’s best pro laptop, and today, the 14-inch MacBook Pro gets even better with the arrival of the M5 chip,” said John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering.

“M5 marks the next big leap in AI for the Mac and delivers a huge boost in graphics performance, accelerating demanding workflows for everyone from students to creatives, developers to business professionals, and more. With its amazing performance, extraordinary battery life, and unrivaled display, M5 takes the new 14-inch MacBook Pro to another level.”

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— Arun Maini (@Mrwhosetheboss) October 15, 2025

The Apple M5 chip, built on third-generation 3nm technology, is at the core of the enhanced performance from the new MacBook Pro.

The CPU has 10 cores, consisting of six efficiency cores and four performance cores, which Apple claims are the "world's fastest CPU cores."

Multithreaded performance is up to 20% faster than the previous M4 chip.

The graphics department also sees a significant leap forward with a next-generation 10-core GPU architecture featuring a Neural Accelerator on each core.

This delivers up to 1.6x faster graphics performance in professional applications and up to 1.6x higher frame rates for gaming.

The third-generation ray tracing engine also delivers up to a 45% increase in graphics performance compared to the M4.

The 16-core Neural Engine in the M5 has been drastically improved, offering up to 3.5x faster AI performance than the M4 and even 6x faster than the M1.

These improvements are crucial for modern AI workloads, complementing the Neural Accelerators in the CPU and GPU.

Unified memory bandwidth has also increased by nearly 30% to 153GB/s, supporting up to 32GB of unified memory.

Specific performance improvements include up to 1.7x faster 3D rendering in Blender and up to 1.8x faster AI video upscaling in Topaz Video.

Additionally, build performance when compiling code in Xcode is 1.2x faster, and SSD performance is twice as fast as the previous generation.

M5 MacBook Pro vs M4 MacBook Pro pic.twitter.com/OZq8xk2i96

— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) October 16, 2025

The physical design of the 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 maintains the premium aesthetic and available in Silver and Space Black, giving users an elegant and professional look.

Configuration options include up to 32GB of RAM and up to 4TB of SSD storage, doubling the maximum capacity of the previous model.

The 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR display with a resolution of 3024 x 1964 pixels offers peak brightness of up to 1,600 nits for HDR and 1,000 nits for SDR content.

Other features complementing the MacBook Pro M5 include a 12MP 1080p Center Stage camera for high-quality video calls.

An impressive battery life of up to 24 hours on a single charge ensures all-day productivity without worrying about running out of power.

The device also features three USB-C ports (Thunderbolt 4), an SDXC card slot, an HDMI port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a MagSafe charging port.

Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 support ensure fast and stable wireless connections.

The MacBook Pro M5 also runs macOS Tahoe, which integrates Apple Intelligence for generative AI capabilities directly on the device.

The 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 starts at $1,599 in the US, with a base configuration of 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage.

This model will be the first to be released, while MacBook Pro variants with the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips are expected to follow in early 2026.

Announcement and pre-orders begin on October 15, 2025, with shipping and physical store availability starting on October 22, 2025.