Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, October 16th, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

Leading off today, Apple has a trio of new product announcements, all powered by the M5 chip.

There's a new MacBook Pro, a new iPad Pro, and a new Vision Pro.

So let's start with the M5 chip itself.

Apple says the M5 chip features a next generation 10-core GPU architecture that adds a neural accelerator to each core. This is similar to what we saw with the A-19 chip in the iPhone 17.

Apple says this enables GPU-based

AI workloads to perform at up to four times the peak performance of last year's M4. You also get a 10-core

CPU with six efficiency cores and up to four performance cores. Overall, this provides up to 15% gains in multi-threaded

CPU performance over the M4. There's also a 16-core neural engine that's improved compared to

the M4, though Apple doesn't offer any actual percentage gains. It simply says that AI tasks will be

faster than the M4. Overall, the M5 is a strong

update compared to the M4, but it's not a dramatic leap year over year. It's the story we've been

talking about since the Apple Silicon era began. Each year we get a new Apple Silicon processor,

and each year you can expect 10 to 15% performance gains, so there's not really a reason to update to a new Mac every year.

But when you do decide to make that change after several years, you're getting a noticeable boost in performance and efficiency.

In terms of actual products with the M5, let's start with the MacBook

Pro. Apple has officially announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M5 chip. Apple touts that this

delivers the next big leap in artificial intelligence performance for the Mac with up to three

and a half times faster AI performance than the M4 MacBook Pro.

The version of the M5 chip in the 14-inch MacBook Pro features that next generation 10-core GPU

that we talked about earlier, and in particular for the MacBook Pro, Apple says, that enables

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