M5 Pro 18-Core: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
M5 Pro 18-Core provides good benchmark performance at 33.02% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX.
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Summary
Apple started M5 Pro 18-Core sales 3 March 2026. This is a notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 18 cores and 18 threads, and is based on 3 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4608 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Primary details
M5 Pro 18-Core processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 175 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Designer | Apple | |
| Release date | 3 March 2026 (less than a year ago) |
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 18 (Octadeca-Core) | |
| Threads | 18 | |
| Boost clock speed | 4.61 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L2 cache | 32 MB | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 24 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 3 nm | |
| 64 bit support | + |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of M5 Pro 18-Core. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
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Recommended GPUs
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These are the fastest graphics cards for M5 Pro 18-Core in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 22 configurations using M5 Pro 18-Core in our database.
