M5 MacBook Air’s SSD Speeds Beat M4 Pro Models, Obtains An Impressive 229.96% Performance Increase Over M4 MacBook Air Lineup

In addition to a chipset upgrade, the M5 MacBook Air has received a major boost in SSD performance, mimicking the gains obtained by the M5 MacBook Pro that launched last year. In fact, what’s remarkable about the latest comparison is that Apple’s latest portable Mac is faster than some premium M4 Pro models, not to mention that the machine runs circles around its immediate predecessors, the 13-inch and 15-inch M4 MacBook Air. Let us take a look at these SSD speeds in more detail.

Faster SSD speeds will enable the M5 MacBook Air to become more responsive than previous-generation models, making everyday tasks a breeze

Based on Blackmagic’s Disk Speed Test results for both the read and write categories, Apple’s NAND flash incorporated in the M5 MacBook Air likely supports the faster PCIe NVMe Gen 4 protocol, allowing the newer models to secure up to a mammoth 229.96 percent faster performance than the M4 MacBook Air series. Notebookcheck successfully pushed out an early review of the M5 MacBook Air, giving us a closer look at the results below.

Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (5GB read)

• 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 percent faster)
• 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro – 3028MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 113.78 percent faster)
• 15-inch M4 MacBook Air – 2904 MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 122.91 percent faster)
• 13-inch M4 MacBook Air – 2833.3 MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 128.48 percent faster)

Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (5GB write)

• 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro – 6194.2 MB/s
• 13-inch M5 MacBook Air – 6558.6MB/s
• 16-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro – 6713.2MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 2.30 percent slower)
• 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro – 3426MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 91.44 percent faster)
• 15-inch M4 MacBook Air – 3023.9MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 116.89 percent faster)
• 13-inch M4 MacBook Air – 1987.7MB/s (M5 MacBook Air is 229.96 percent faster)

While the M5 is expected to deliver a decent performance uplift, the primary bottleneck that determines how fast or slow a system becomes is the SSD. We haven’t had a gander at the internals of the new MacBook Air family, but it is likely that Apple used two NAND flash chips to enable the newer models to attain higher read and write speeds.

If you want to experience this level of snappiness, Amazon is taking pre-orders for the 13-inch and 15-inch M5 MacBook Air models, starting from $1,099, giving you a 10-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16GB of unified memory, and a 512GB SSD for the base model.

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