Performance
Under the hood, the Meizu M5 runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) layered with Flyme 6.3, Meizu's custom user interface. Its performance is driven by a Mediatek MT6750 chipset featuring an octa-core processor, split into 4x1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 and 4x1.0 GHz Cortex-A53 units. The Mali-T860MP2 GPU aids in handling graphics tasks. Upon release, the device was available in configurations of either 16GB of internal storage with 2GB of RAM or 32GB with 3GB of RAM, expandable via the microSDXC slot. This setup ensures competent performance for basic to moderate smartphone activities, although power users may find the resources limiting for heavy-duty tasks or extensive multitasking.