Apple M5 Pro Outperforms M4 Pro, Trails RTX 5060

Apple’s M5 Pro appears on Geekbench on March 7, 2026, scoring 141,000 points in Metal and about 87,155 points in OpenCL, showing roughly 24.3% and 26% gains over the M4 Pro in OpenCL and Metal respectively. Despite the generational uplift, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU holds about a 13% lead in OpenCL, and API differences limit direct cross-platform comparisons.
Key Points
- 1Reports show M5 Pro scores 141,000 (Metal) and approximately 87,155 (OpenCL) on Geekbench.
- 2Demonstrates 24.3% OpenCL and 26% Metal improvements versus M4 Pro, indicating notable generational uplift.
- 3Advises practitioners to prefer Metal-optimized macOS workloads; OpenCL benchmarks currently favor Nvidia laptop GPUs.
Scoring Rationale
Moderate novelty and direct hardware relevance, limited by single-outlet benchmarks and platform-specific API comparability constraints.
Sources
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