2026 MacBook Pro 16" M5 Max 18-CPU 40-GPU 128GB RAM Mining Results

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2026 MacBook Pro 16" M5 Max 18-CPU 40-GPU 128GB RAM Mining Results

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System:
2026 MacBook Pro 16" M5 Max | Mac17,6
Apple M5 Max | 18-core CPU | 40‑core GPU
128 GB Ram
2 TB SSD
macOS Tahoe 26.5


Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining
Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining (41.08 KiB) Viewed 1140 times


Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: Mac17,6
Model Number: Z1N20001BLL/A
Chip: Apple M5 Max
Total Number of Cores: 18 (6 Super and 12 Performance)
Memory: 128 GB
System Firmware Version: 18000.120.36
OS Loader Version: 18000.120.36
Serial Number (system):
Hardware UUID:
Provisioning UDID:
Activation Lock Status: Disabled

Chipset Model: Apple M5 Max
Type: GPU
Bus: Built-In
Total Number of Cores: 40
Vendor: Apple (0x106b)
Metal Support: Metal 4

Memory: 128 GB
Type: LPDDR5
Manufacturer: Samsung

*All Mining Tests Done on "High Power" energy mode.*
On power adapter Your Mac will optimize performance to better support resource-intensive tasks. This may result in louder fan noise.





XMRig/6.26.0 clang/14.0.3 (built for macOS ARMv8, 64 bit)



speed 10s/60s/15m 9007.6 8910.3 n/a H/s max 9007.6 H/s


Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Xmrig

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* ABOUT        XMRig/6.26.0 clang/14.0.3 (built for macOS ARMv8, 64 bit)
 * LIBS         libuv/1.51.0 OpenSSL/3.5.0 hwloc/2.12.1
 * HUGE PAGES   unavailable
 * 1GB PAGES    unavailable
 * CPU          Apple M5 Max (1) 64-bit AES
                L2:48.0 MB L3:0.0 MB 18C/18T NUMA:1
 * MEMORY       35.3/128.0 GB (28%)
 * DONATE       1%
 * POOL #1      donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 algo auto
 * COMMANDS     hashrate, pause, resume, results, connection
[2026-05-25 21:51:05.272]  config   configuration saved to: "/Users/ram/Desktop/MINE/APPS/xmrig-6.26.0/config.json"
 * OPENCL       disabled
 * CUDA         disabled
[2026-05-25 21:51:05.513]  net      use pool donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333  178.128.242.134
[2026-05-25 21:51:05.513]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682250 (73 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:51:05.513]  cpu      use argon2 implementation default
[2026-05-25 21:51:05.513]  randomx  init dataset algo rx/0 (18 threads) seed e1f9fdc762e51fec...
[2026-05-25 21:51:05.513]  randomx  allocated 2336 MB (2080+256) huge pages 0% 0/1168 +JIT (0 ms)
[2026-05-25 21:51:07.376]  randomx  dataset ready (1863 ms)
[2026-05-25 21:51:07.376]  cpu      use profile  rx  (18 threads) scratchpad 2048 KB
[2026-05-25 21:51:07.377]  cpu      READY threads 18/18 (18) huge pages 0% 0/18 memory 36864 KB (1 ms)
[2026-05-25 21:51:07.691]  cpu      accepted (1/0) diff 1000K (248 ms)
[2026-05-25 21:51:12.820]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682250 (74 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:51:19.784]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (2 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:51:29.809]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (4 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:51:40.149]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (7 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:51:56.720]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (8 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:07.085]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (14 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:07.501]  miner    speed 10s/60s/15m 8729.8 n/a n/a H/s max 8982.7 H/s
[2026-05-25 21:52:17.015]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (18 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:27.321]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (21 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:37.390]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (22 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:45.174]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (23 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:46.096]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (24 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:46.914]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (25 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:47.939]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (26 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:52:57.773]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (28 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:53:07.642]  miner    speed 10s/60s/15m 9007.6 8910.3 n/a H/s max 9007.6 H/s
[2026-05-25 21:53:08.015]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682251 (31 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:53:11.497]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682252 (32 tx)
[2026-05-25 21:53:12.932]  cpu      accepted (2/0) diff 1000K (275 ms)
[2026-05-25 21:53:21.737]  net      new job from donate.v2.xmrig.com:3333 diff 1000K algo rx/0 height 3682252 (33 tx)




MacMiner v0.5.0.1



Device Info Detected Metal Devices O: Apple M5 Max Total Memory: 107.5 Max Alloc Size: 80.6 Detected OpenCL Devices O: Apple OpenCL 1.2 (Apr 18 2026 19:20:04) O: Apple M5 Max (GPU) Device Version: OpenCL 1.2 Total Memory: 107.5 Max Alloc Size: 20.2 Max Compute Units: 40 Max Work Group Size: 256

MAXIMUM Power Mode



KAWPOW:

14.42 Mh


Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Mac Miner Kawpow
Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Mac Miner Kawpow (34.03 KiB) Viewed 1140 times


ETHASH:

40.6 Mh


Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Mac Miner Ethash
Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Mac Miner Ethash (33.04 KiB) Viewed 1140 times


AUTOLYKOS:

60.01 Mh


Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Mac Miner Autolykos V2
Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Mac Miner Autolykos V2 (33.5 KiB) Viewed 1140 times



ethminer v0.19.0-alpha.0-m1 | ethminer 0.19.0-17+commit.ce52c740.dirty


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./ethminer-m1 -P stratum://ETH:[email protected]:3333

0:01 A0 41.58 Mh - cl0 41.58

Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Ethminer
Macbook Pro 16 M5 Max 128g Ram Crypto Mining Ethminer (51.02 KiB) Viewed 1140 times

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ethminer 0.19.0-17+commit.ce52c740.dirty
Build: darwin/release/appleclang

 i 22:06:05          Configured pool ethash.unmineable.com:3333
 i 22:06:05          Selected pool ethash.unmineable.com:3333
 i 22:06:08          Negotiation of EthereumStratum/2.0.0 failed. Trying another ...
 i 22:06:08          Stratum mode : EthereumStratum/1.0.0 (NiceHash)
 i 22:06:08          Established connection to ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
 i 22:06:08          Spinning up miners...
cl 22:06:08 cl-0     Using Device : Intel GPU 0.0 Apple M5 Max OpenCL 1.2  Memory : 107.52 GB (115448725504 B)
 i 22:06:08          Extranonce set to 0438
 i 22:06:09          Extranonce set to 0438
 i 22:06:09          Authorized worker ETH
 i 22:06:09          Epoch : 810 Difficulty : 8.59 Gh
 i 22:06:09          Job: 27316424… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
cl 22:06:10 cl-0     Generating split DAG + Light (total): 7.33 GB
 m 22:06:10          0:00 A0 0.00 h - cl0 0.00
cl 22:06:10 cl-0     OpenCL kernel
cl 22:06:10 cl-0     Creating DAG buffer, size: 7.33 GB, free: 100.19 GB
cl 22:06:10 cl-0     Creating light cache buffer, size: 117.25 MB
cl 22:06:10 cl-0     Loading kernels
cl 22:06:10 cl-0     Creating buffer for header.
cl 22:06:10 cl-0     Creating mining buffer
 i 22:06:11          Job: 1469cb60… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
cl 22:06:14 cl-0     7.33 GB of DAG data generated in 3,789 ms.
 m 22:06:15          0:00 A0 1.48 Mh - cl0 1.48
 m 22:06:20          0:00 A0 41.56 Mh - cl0 41.56
 m 22:06:25          0:00 A0 41.34 Mh - cl0 41.34
 i 22:06:26          Job: 101c014e… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
 m 22:06:30          0:00 A0 41.29 Mh - cl0 41.29
 m 22:06:35          0:00 A0 41.30 Mh - cl0 41.30
 m 22:06:40          0:00 A0 41.31 Mh - cl0 41.31
 i 22:06:42          Job: e81a75e7… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
 i 22:06:43          Job: 4ded4bf1… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
 m 22:06:45          0:00 A0 41.28 Mh - cl0 41.28
 i 22:06:48          Job: 05b13a16… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
 i 22:06:49          Job: 6113c10a… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
 m 22:06:50          0:00 A0 41.22 Mh - cl0 41.22
 i 22:06:51          Job: c19c2e74… ethash.unmineable.com [174.138.53.224:3333]
 m 22:06:55          0:00 A0 41.21 Mh - cl0 41.21
 m 22:07:00          0:00 A0 41.19 Mh - cl0 41.19
 m 22:07:05          0:01 A0 41.21 Mh - cl0 41.21
 m 22:07:10          0:01 A0 41.58 Mh - cl0 41.58
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