Apple M5 Pro (16-core GPU, 24GB)
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Reference: Apple M5 on Wikipedia
- Class
- Mac
- Memory
- 24 GB LPDDR5X
- Runs (Q4_K_M)
- —
- Bandwidth
- 307 GB/s
- Released
- 2026-03-11
- Price (US)
- $2499 new as of 2026-08
- Price (Canada)
- CA$2999 new sourced, as of 2026-08
Sourcing and disambiguation notes
MacBook Pro 14-inch, M5 Pro 15-core CPU/16-core GPU, 24GB/1TB -- base/entry M5 Pro config. Current post-2026-06-25 price-increase MSRP; corroborated by a 9to5toys deal article (2026-08-20) citing the same $2,499 'regular price.' Canadian price (2026-08, pre-tax): CA$2,999 from the live apple.com/ca configurator for the exact base MacBook Pro 14" M5 Pro (15-core CPU / 16-core GPU) 24GB/1TB matching the US-priced configuration, confirmed by direct page fetch 2026-08-22. Ratio to the US $2,499 is 1.20x.
Specification sources
- https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167 — community-table, 2026-04-14
- https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ — vendor, 2026-08-22
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 24 GB; models that fit are listed largest first.
No modeled quant fits in 24 GB.