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Although on paper they both release the same processor, the M5 chip of the new MacBook Pro and that of the new iPad Pro They do not offer the same performance. The first leaked benchmarks reveal that Apple is using a new strategy to differentiate its devices. We are referring to varying the clock speed of the same chip, which results in a notable difference in power between the tablet and the laptop.

According to Geekbench 6 data published on the X social network, the MacBook Pro’s M5 is up to 9% faster in multicore tasks. The difference in monocore is smaller, 3%. The reason is in the frequency of its performance cores: while the M5 of the MacBook Pro reaches 4.61 GHz, that of the iPad Pro stays at 4.43 GHz.

A clear case of binning

This difference in speed points to a manufacturing technique known as binning, by which manufacturers select and sort chips based on their quality. Until now, Apple used to differentiate its processors by disabling GPU cores in the less powerful versions. However, it seems that with the M5 it has started to also vary the frequency of clock in its high-end chips, a new practice for the company. The presence of a fan on the MacBook Pro, unlike the iPad Pro, would physically justify the ability to maintain those higher speeds.

Although the information published is credible, it is important to take these figures with a grain of salt. It is a very early leak and the MacBook Pro M5 results are yet to appear en masse in the public Geekbench database. Therefore, although everything points to this new Apple strategy, we will have to wait for more exhaustive analyzes to confirm the real extent of these performance differences.