M5 MacBook Pro SSD Performance Surpasses Apple's Official Claims
While Apple advertised a two-fold increase in the SSD performance of the new M5 chip MacBook Pro, independent testing from MaxTech on YouTube has shown that the read speed of the drive, in particular, is way ahead of what Apple has claimed.
Benchmarking Results A Tale of Two Speeds
New and old models of the MacBook Pro (the latter of which did not build up much hype), which are supposed to be identical to each other, save the brains, were tested and compared using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. The results were very telling vast differences in storage performance.
- New MacBook Pro M5
- Read Speed 6323 MB/s
- Write Speed 6068 MB/s
- Previous MacBook Pro
- Read Speed 2031 MB/s
- Write Speed 3293 MB/s
Taking a Harder Look at the Performance Improvements
By calculation, the read speed of the M5 MacBook Pro is somewhere around 211% greater than the old model-the precise figure was never more than double the 100% increase claimed by Apple. The other side of this read performance would appear to be a much tamer but nevertheless large 84% jump in write speed.
The blogger, after running the test numerous times, asserted that these numbers remained consistent. This was also corroborated by layman tests such as common copying of files.
The Boosting Fact
Strangely enough, both the new and the old versions contain the same kind of memory cells and the same amount of PCIe lanes. Therefore, this performance boost could not have arisen from the media itself. The most probable thing is that Apple integrated a new and more efficient controller for the storage with the M5 chip, but that is not noted in Apple's official specifications.
