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Leaked M5 benchmarks suggest Apple's biggest silicon jump since M1

Early Geekbench results point to a 32% single-core lead over the M4, with neural engine throughput nearly doubling.

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By David Otieno
Hardware Editor
Sunday, July 5, 2026 6 min read

Numbers pulled from the Geekbench browser overnight paint the M5 as the most consequential Apple Silicon release since the original M1.

The neural engine gains are what should worry NVIDIA the most — Apple appears to be closing the on-device inference gap faster than analysts predicted.

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