Apple® has officially announced the launch of its new iPad Pro®, which is understood to run on the powerful M5 chip.
According to certain reports, M5 brings to the fore an incredible amount of power and AI performance into the ultraportable design of iPad Pro, while simultaneously boasting a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in each core.
As a result, M5 is able to deliver top-notch performance for iPad Pro users, regardless of whether they’re working on cutting-edge projects or tapping into AI for productivity. More on that would reveal how iPad Pro delivers up to 3.5x the AI performance than iPad Pro with M41, and up to 5.6x faster than iPad Pro with M1.2 N1, the new Apple-designed wireless networking chip.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the device’s C1X modem, which is capable of delivering up to 50 percent faster cellular data performance than its predecessor.
Moving on, available in space black and silver at launch, iPad Pro further comes in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes, all while enjoying the Ultra Retina XDR® display for an unparalleled viewing experience. Complementing that would be an assortment of game-changing features associated with iPadOS® 26 supercharge iPad Pro, each component helping users handle demanding creative and professional tasks with ease.
Next up, we must expand upon the device’s 10-core GPU, which packs together a new architecture with Neural Accelerator in each core. Such a mechanism, like you can guess, can deliver a massive boost in GPU performance for AI workloads.
Turning our attention towards the iPad’s CPU, it boasts upto 1.5x faster 3D rendering with ray tracing than the previous-generation iPad Pro, along with up to a whopping 6.7x faster rendering performance than iPad Pro. M5 even has up to a 10-core CPU, enjoying four performance cores and six efficiency cores, making it the world’s fastest CPU core.
All in all, the given technical setup makes Apple’s latest brainchild suitable for a range of users, including graphic designers working with complex vector graphics in apps like Adobe Illustrator, architects who routinely multitask across apps like SketchUp and Morpholio Trace, and business users who need to quickly launch and access large files across multiple apps.
iPad Pro can also accelerate a wide variety of workloads, such as on-device diffusion-based image generation in apps like Draw Things, and AI video masking in apps like DaVinci Resolve. Now, we referred to the device’s Neural Engine, but what we haven’t touched upon yet is its tendency to deliver the most energy-efficient performance for on-device AI, presenting it as perfect for apps that use the Foundation Models framework and for Apple Intelligence™ features like creating in Image Playground.
Among other things, it ought to be acknowledged that iPad Pro delivers the necessary means to accelerate overall speed and responsiveness, including an increase in unified memory bandwidth, faster storage read, more starting unified memory, as well as faster charge support.
Alongside that, users can also come expecting over 150GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, marking a nearly 30 percent increase compared to the previous generation. This should help users multitask across more apps, process AI models faster, play demanding games, and more.
In case that wasn’t enough, the all-new iPad Pro also offers up to 2x faster storage read and write speeds, and the 256GB and 512GB models, start with 12GB of unified memory — 50 percent more than before.
“Powered by the next generation of Apple silicon, the new iPad Pro delivers our most advanced and versatile iPad experience yet,” said John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering. “iPad Pro with M5 unlocks endless possibilities for creativity and productivity — with a huge leap in AI performance and a big boost in graphics, superfast wireless connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 features, it pushes the boundaries of what iPad can do yet again.”
