A few days ago, Apple officially released a new MacBook Air equipped with M5 chip, offering dual size options of 13-inch and 15-inch, with a starting price of 8,499 yuan in China.The latest data shows that the M5 MacBook Air has not only been upgraded at the chip level, but its solid-state drive performance has also been improved by leaps and bounds.
Notebookcheck's early evaluation data shows that the SSD speed of the new machine is nearly 230% higher than that of the previous generation M4 MacBook Air, even surpassing the high-end M4 Pro model.
The specific Blackmagic Disk Speed Test results are as follows:
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (5GB read test)
14-inch M5 MacBook Pro - 6752.1MB/s
13-inch M5 MacBook Air - 6473.4MB/s
16-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro - 5401.3MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 19.85% faster)
14-inch M4 MacBook Pro - 3028MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 113.78% faster)
15-inch M4 MacBook Air - 2904MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 122.91% faster)
13-inch M4 MacBook Air - 2833.3MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 128.48% faster)
Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (5GB write test)
14-inch M5 MacBook Pro - 6194.2MB/s
13-inch M5 MacBook Air - 6558.6MB/s
16-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro - 6713.2MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 2.30% behind)
14-inch M4 MacBook Pro - 3426MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 91.44% faster)
15-inch M4 MacBook Air - 3023.9MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 116.89% faster)
13-inch M4 MacBook Air - 1987.7MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 229.96% faster)
This leap forward indicates that Apple is likely to equip the M5 MacBook Air with PCIe NVMe Gen 4 protocol NAND flash memory, and may return to the design of dual NAND flash memory particles, eliminating the storage bottleneck of the basic Air through parallel processing.
