Apple has announced a new leap in its processors with the introduction of the M5 chip, which will be featured in the iPad Pro, Vision Pro, and entry-level MacBook Pro for now. Per Apple, this new processor will provide improvements to computing speeds, graphics, and artificial intelligence tasks.
But with how good M4 already was, the announcement has drawn mixed reactions from fans. Many were unable to comprehend why this was needed.
Apple’s M5 chip has mixed reactions from fans
Apple has announced in a press release that it is expanding into new territories with the M5 chip, which will further build on the successful M4 chip and deliver more power than ever before, especially for AI-based tasks.
“M5 delivers over 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4, featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core, a more powerful CPU, a faster Neural Engine, and higher unified memory bandwidth,” Apple’s description of its latest product read.
The entry-level price for each device featuring this new processor remains the same, per reports (via Bloomberg). Apple also claims this new chip will deliver significant AI performance improvements, which could be its USP.
But the response to this announcement wasn’t exactly thunderous. Marques Brownlee’s post about the update became a breeding ground for discussion, where many users were seemingly unimpressed.
“Does anybody actually need this? Wasn’t M4 enough?” one user wrote. Another user said, “Why on earth would you want that on an iPad? I have the M4 iPad and don’t think I’ve ever come close to needing the power of it.” Yet another user joked, “30% faster every year… at this rate the MacBook will reach sentience before Siri does.”
It seems like this mixed reaction is because of how quickly the new chip came after M4. The M4 chip has already garnered a lot of acclaim, and there are few complaints about it.
If the M5 chip manages to add a significant performance boost in Apple devices, perhaps the reaction will change.
There will be more updates about this soon.
Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty on Mandatory.
