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Apple’s flagship 16-inch MacBook Pro has reigned supreme in the world of creator-focused laptops since its M-series processor overhaul in 2021. Since then, we’ve mostly seen the same design with year-over-year chip bumps and small refinements. “If it ain’t broke,” right? The new MacBook Pro is still fast as hell And we re-tested the M1 Pro and M1 Max models to see how far the M5 Max has come. If you want to know everything about this machine, you can read our review of the last-gen M4 Pro / M4 Max models — it pretty much all holds up with the M5 models that replace them. But this time around, in addition to the usual testing and use of the new M5 Max model, it’s worth asking a specific new question: whether you should consider a new MacBook Pro if you’re currently using an M1 Pro or M1 Max model. I see you in the comments section, 2021 MacBook owners, wondering when an upgrade is worth it. And I’m here for you. We got our hands on some four-and-a-half-year-old MacBook Pros to test them against Apple’s latest and greatest, and it’s safe to say it’s worth upgrading — for some of you, at least. The Good - Still the best - Amazing performance and battery life - Double the starting storage, and it’s blisteringly fast The Bad - Still very expensive, with a $400 price increase over the M4 Max (though you get extra storage) For 2026, the 16-inch MacBook Pro has faster processors, Wi-Fi 7 support, and twice-as-fast storage that now starts at higher capacities. The Pro costs $2,699 for an M5 Pro chip with an 18-core CPU and 20-core GPU, “just” 24GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. At a starting price of $3,899, the M5 Max has an 18-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 36GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage — along with double-capacity memory bandwidth over the M5 Pro (for faster data transfer between the CPU and RAM). Our M5 Max test unit is souped up with a 40-core GPU, 128GB of RAM, 4TB of storage, and a Nano-texture anti-glare display, all costing an exorbitant $6,149. Component report card - Screen: A - Webcam: A - Keyboard: B - Trackpad: A - Port selection: B - Speakers: A - Number of ugly stickers to remove: 0 The M1 Pro and M1 Max 16-inch MacBook Pros I got my hands on for some limited testing have comparatively quaint specs. The M1 Pro is a 10-core CPU / 16-core GPU model, with 16GB of RAM and 1TB storage (it cost $2,699 when new in 2021). And the M1 Max has 10 CPU cores, 32 GPU cores, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage ($3,499 in 2021). Just like the M5 Max, the original M1 Max was all about those graphics cores for GPU-intensive workloads. We put all of these laptops through the same battery of benchmark tests to find out just how far the M series has come in five years. In a nutshell: pretty far. The M5 Max’s single threaded scores in Geekbench 6 and Cinebench 2026 are around 65 to 76 percent higher than the M1 Max, and its multi-threaded scores in the same tests are about 124 to 161 percent higher. The 40 GPU cores of the M5 Max nearly double the M1 Max’s 32-core GPU scores in both Metal and OpenCL graphics frameworks. CPU cores | Graphics cores | Geekbench 6 CPU Single | Geekbench 6 CPU Multi | Geekbench 6 GPU (OpenCL) | Geekbench 6 GPU (Metal) | Cinebench 2026 Single | Cinebench 2026 Multi | PugetBench for Photoshop | PugetBench for Premiere Pro (2.0.0+) | PugetBench for DaVinci Resolve (2.0.0+) | Blender classroom test (seconds, lower is better) | Blender cosmos test | Premiere 4K Export (lower is better) | Sustained SSD reads (MB/s) | Sustained SSD writes (MB/s) | Price as tested | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | MacBook Pro 16 / Apple M5 Max / 128GB / 4TB | 18 | 40 | 4330 | 29143 | 145613 | 227435 | 734 | 8952 | 15716 | 154829 | 124942 | 15 | 35 | 1 minute, 10 seconds | 13638.91 | 17814.19 | $6,149 | | MacBook Pro 16 / Apple M1 Max / 32GB / 1TB | 10 | 32 | 2456 | 13019 | 73307 | 124344 | 446 | 3429 | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | 2 minutes, 3 seconds | 6741.38 | 7067.34 | $3,499 | | MacBook Pro 16 / Apple M1 Pro / 16GB / 1TB | 10 | 16 | 2336 | 11949 | 43638 | 71358 | 417 | 3158 | 8254 | 64276 | Not tested | 162 | 695 | 2 minutes, 50 seconds | 6685.35 | 6966.43 | $2,699 | The differences between the M5 Max and M1 Pro are even more stark. The M5 Max scored 76 to 85 percent higher than the M1 Pro in single-threaded CPU tests and it more than triples the M1 Pro’s Metal and OpenCL GPU scores. In PugetBench tests for Adobe apps, the M5 Max scored nearly twice as high in Photoshop and well over double in Premiere Pro (141 percent higher, to be exact). As for SSD read / write speeds, the M5 Max equally beats both the M1 Pro and M1 Max. It’s more than twice as fast, just as Apple bills it. This takes storage that was already fast and kicks it up to ludicrous speed. The M1 Pro and M1 Max laptops I borrowed for these tests both belong to professionals I know who are in no rush to upgrade. The M1 Max is our own Kevin McShane’s, who tells me it’s still performin