Apple M1 Max 32-Core GPU vs Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking52not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 March 2026 (recently)10 November 2020 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4032
Core clock speedno data1296 MHz
Manufacturing process technologyno data5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data44 Watt

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeLPDDR5x-8533LPDDR5-6400
Memory bus widthno data512 Bit
Shared memoryno data+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2026 10 November 2020

Apple M5 Max 40-Core GPU has an age advantage of 5 years.

We couldn't decide between M5 Max 40-Core GPU and M1 Max 32-Core GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

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