Testing Apple’s 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new “performance” cores

M5 Pro Max's "performance" CPU cores definitely aren't just rebranded E-cores.

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I do feel the need to complain: I feel like ArsTechnica (and most journalists out there, honestly) should go back to using zero-based Y axes. It's so confusing to look at a chart with such dramatic results... only to realize the "zero" is actually 12K, and then having to reframe everything mentally to understand.

Apple is the worst on that, especially comparing across architectures.

X is 1.2x faster than Y at Z. Thats really only 20%, and they always ofc focus on tests of large delta.

I had a G5 Quad and the first gen Mac Pro and the Quad had better memory speed scores but Apple only showed scores where they were better.

And ugh... charts where a bar that is 3x longer than another representing 10% more ))))))))

Or log scale charts that somehow try to distract us from the fact that they are log