New M5 core taxonomy: Super, Performance, Efficiency

• Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
  • Related episode of ATP
• Follow-up:
  • An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
  • MacBook Neo
    • John’s theory about color & clamshells
    • The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
      • Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?
    • MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)
    • SSD speeds (via The Verge)
    • The  logo
      • iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
      • Jason’s review
    • Dave2D’s review
    • Teardown
    • Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
  • Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
    • New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)
      • H17S is the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
    • Quinn’s review
      • M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E
      • Baidu leakers
        • Super cores (“P-Core”)
          • 4.61 GHz
          • 10-wide decoding
        • Performance cores (“M-Core”)
          • 4.38 GHz
          • 7-wide decoding
          • ~70% the performance of a Super Core
          • Dual operating mode from efficiency cores
        • Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)
          • 3.05 GHz
          • 6-wide decoding
    • Andrew Cunningham at Ars
      • L2 cache
        • Super: 16 MB
        • Performance: 8 MB
        • Efficiency: 6MB
      • Minimum clock speed:
        • Super: 1,308 MHz
        • Performance: 1,344 MHz
        • Efficiency: 972 MHz
    • Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
  • MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
  • MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
  • Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
    • TOSTracker
    • Example individual comparison
  • Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
  • Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
  • Studio Display XDR
    • UFO Test
    • MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
    • Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech)
      • Superwide viewing angle
      • Timing controller (TCON)
      • Calibration
      • Display optimization modes
• Formula 1 news
  • Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)
  • Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)
  • 2026 season preview
  • F1TV vs. Apple TV
    • Link accounts
  • Romain Grosjean’s
• Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
  • MKBHD
  • The Verge
• Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
  • Great Saunter
  • Injinji toe socks
  • Altra Torin 8 wide shoes
  • Garmin Venu 4 41mm
  • Garmin Forerunner 570
  • Garmin Fenix 8
  • Suunto Race S
  • WorkOutDoors
  • Pedometer++
• Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS
  • Tahoe 26.4 warnings
  • Slightly more detail from Ars Technica

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