Apple's M5 Pro & M5 Max easily beat the RTX 5090 in PugetBench creator benchmarks
Notebookcheck • • technology
Key Points:
- The new Apple M5 Pro chip performs impressively, matching or slightly trailing the mobile GeForce RTX 5090 in the Asus ProArt P16, a leading 16-inch Windows multimedia laptop.
- The M5 Max models significantly outperform competitors, especially in GPU-intensive tasks, with the larger MacBook Pro 16-inch model fully leveraging the M5 Max's capabilities.
- Although the 14-inch MacBook Pro shows slightly lower performance, it still surpasses all similarly sized Windows laptops in overall performance.
- Among compact Windows laptops, the Asus ProArt PX13 with AMD Strix Halo is a strong contender, but it falls short of the M5 chips in demanding applications like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.
- Intel’s Panther Lake combined with the mobile RTX 5070 also fails to match the performance of Apple's M5 chips in professional creative software.
