MacBook Pro M5: Do the “super cores” negatively impact battery life?
With the new MacBook Pro M5 Pro and Max, Apple introduces new processor cores. Goodbye efficiency cores!
Especially with MacBook Pros, a good balance between high performance and long battery life is crucial. Modern Mac processors have multiple cores designed for different tasks.
No efficiency cores, yet long battery life
The M4 MacBook Pro, for example, had 12 processor cores in the M4 Pro chip: 4 efficiency cores and 8 performance cores. When you were just checking emails and browsing in Safari, the efficiency cores were active. When you were rendering videos or playing games, the performance cores were also active.
This allows Apple to combine long battery life with high performance. The M4 Max processor in the MacBook Pro even had 16 cores (4 efficiency cores and 12 performance cores). Apple replaced the efficiency cores with new super cores in the M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro.
Super-cores: What is behind them
The new super-cores (product name, typically Apple…) are a combination of efficiency and performance cores. The “Fusion Architecture” merges two chips into one.
Despite its more performance-oriented processor architecture, the M5 MacBook Pro offers the same battery life as its predecessor: 14 or 17 hours for the M4 Pro (14-inch/16-inch) and 13 or 14 hours for the M4 Max (14-inch/16-inch). Apple has done it again: more performance with the same battery life.
What do you think of the new MacBook Pro? Is it on your wish list – or are you, like us, waiting for the first model with an OLED display, which is expected to arrive at the end of 2026 or 2027?
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