New products packed with M5 chips

Latest Apple silicon appears in MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and Vision Pro

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Apple's M5 chip is finally here, and with it comes a new MacBook Pro, a fresh iPad Pro, and an upgraded Vision Pro headset.

We'll start with the M5 chip that powers these devices. Here, Apple put the emphasis firmly on the chip's artificial intelligence (Al) performance. For instance, Apple said that the M5 enables 'GPU-based Al workloads to run dramatically faster', with over four times the peak GPU compute performance compared to M4, thanks in part to the addition of a Neural Accelerator in each graphics chip core. Apple says you'll be able to transform images into spatial photos much faster and handle larger Al models than before.

The M5 isn't just about Al, though. Apple also highlighted its improved 10-core GPU, which offers 30% faster graphics performance and 45% improved ray tracing output compared to the M4. There's also a 10-core CPU that can deliver 15% faster multi-threaded performance than the previous chip.