I’ve been putting a new 16″ MacBook Pro with M5 Max through its paces. It’s about 20% faster across the board when compiling a large project in Xcode than my Mac Studio with a 28 core M3 Ultra.

The drawback? While the Mac Studio is completely silent all day long, the fans in the MBP ramp up pretty quickly (to 3500 rpm in automatic mode, and 5000 rpm in high power mode). I’ll miss a quiet office, but the speed improvement is too big to ignore.

Switching to high power mode increased the compiling speed by only a fraction of a percent, so I’ll stick with the quieter automatic setting.