Apple M5 (10-core GPU, MacBook Air 13-inch, 16GB)
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Reference: Apple M5 on Wikipedia
- Class
- Mac
- Memory
- 16 GB LPDDR5X
- Runs (Q4_K_M)
- —
- Bandwidth
- 153 GB/s
- Released
- 2026-03-11
Sourcing and disambiguation notes
Same 153GB/s as every other base-M5 machine. Apple ships this Air with an 8-core or 10-core GPU; the bandwidth is identical either way, and the GPU bin changes prefill rather than decode. Below the 200GB/s floor of the fitted Mac efficiency, so memory fit is answered and throughput is not estimated. Price left empty: the MacBook Air buy page lists $1,299 / $1,399 / $1,499 without attributing them to configurations in markup that can be read at the source.
Specification sources
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/126320 — vendor, 2026-08-23
- https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-macbook-air-with-m5/ — vendor, 2026-03-11
Measurements
Decode is token generation — the speed you feel while an answer streams. Prefill is prompt processing — the wait before it starts. Why bandwidth predicts decode speed.
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Speed over time
What it can run
Fit is arithmetic, not a measurement — how it is computed. Against 16 GB; models that fit are listed largest first.
No modeled quant fits in 16 GB.