MacBook Pro M5 Pro
Laptop · 18-core CPU / 20-core GPU config
AppleLaptop$2,760 · Aug 31, 2026View on Amazonpaid link
- Memory
- 64 GB~48 GB usable
- Bandwidth
- 307GB/s — sets decode speed
- Compute
- 15FP16 TFLOPS — sets prefill
- Power
- 90 Wunder sustained load
- Noise
- 45 dBAyou will hear it
- Price per GB
- $43of accelerator memory
Price history
tracking
Tracking since 2026-08-31 — not enough history for a trend yet.
1 observation recorded · Last checked 2026-08-31. Check the retailer before acting on this — we would rather say the data is old than pretend otherwise.
What it can run
3 of 6 reference workloads fit. The largest is 70B dense · Q4 (strong general), at an estimated 5 tok/s of single-stream decode — #5 of the 7 machines here that can run it.
| Workload | Needs | Fits | Prefill t/s | Decode t/s | Batched t/s | $ per t/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8B dense · Q4 (chat, drafts) dense · 4.7 GB read per token | 5.4 GB | Yes | 141 | 42 | 101 | $66 |
32B dense · Q4 (coding) dense · 19 GB read per token | 21.8 GB | Yes | 35 | 11 | 25 | $251 |
70B dense · Q4 (strong general) dense · 40 GB read per token | 46 GB | Yes | 16 | 5 | 12 | $552 |
120B MoE A5B · MXFP4 (gpt-oss class) MoE · 2.9 GB read per token | 72.4 GB | No | 221 | 44 | 150 | — |
320B MoE A18B · FP8 (frontier-ish) MoE · 18 GB read per token | 368 GB | No | 63 | 7 | 36 | — |
671B MoE A37B · Q4 (DeepSeek class) MoE · 18.5 GB read per token | 437 GB | No | 30 | 7 | 21 | — |
Figures are modelled from this machine's bandwidth and compute, not measured on one. How they are derived →
Alternatives that also run 70B dense · Q4 (strong general)
| Machine | Price | Memory | Decode t/s | $ per t/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4,500 | 128 GB | 10 | $450 | |
| $15,499 | 96 GB | 29 | $534 | |
MacBook Pro M5 Pro — this machine | $2,760 | 64 GB | 5 | $552 |
| $13,500 | 512 GB | 20 | $675 | |
| $9,499 | 512 GB | 13 | $731 | |
| $3,999 | 128 GB | 4 | $1,000 | |
| $5,199 | 128 GB | 4 | $1,300 |