Does anyone anticipate an increase in core count on M5 generation? Probably not, given there's no process node shrink. So instead, just performance optimisations for potentially faster clocks?
Looking at the leaked benchmarks from that iPad, things are looking really good for M5 to knock it out the park on the GPU front. CPU is already king of the hill with M4, so a 10-13% improvement is only going to make that even better.
I'm mostly keen on the improvement to raster performance on the GPU front so that we can all be a little more competitive on the gaming/graphics/3d-content front. M4 Max is a wonderful GPU for sure, but it would be nice if it had a bit more juice.
If we end up with a ~40% boost in GPU, that would be a huge improvement year over year. I appreciate that the GPU cores haven't changed TOO much on the raster front, ray-tracing etc notwithstanding.
I wonder if the improvements to Metal benchmarks are coming from the neural improvements on the GPU or raw raster? I guess GFX benchmarks need to be done. Surely they will come very soon given the leaks from Russia.