Today, Apple’s as-yet-unannounced M5 iPad Pro was seemingly leaked by the same YouTuber who last year leaked the M4 MacBook Pro. Thanks to the surprise reveal, we now have benchmarks for Apple’s forthcoming M5 chip, and they point to big gains coming in a key area.
M5 chip could offer substantial GPU upgrades over M4
Every year when Apple unveils its new iPhone chip, we get a preview of what to expect from the M-class chip in the same family.
The A19 Pro found in iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air is a solid year-over-year update in CPU. But where it truly shines is in GPU performance, thanks largely to Neural Accelerators.
Apple’s Tim Millet, VP of Platform Architecture, recently explained the benefits this way:
Our GPU gives us the ability to apply neural processing across applications that are traditionally more graphics-based. For example, gaming applications. Using AI to enhance the quality of the imaging, as well as to improve the efficiency of some of the image rendering.
Since the forthcoming M5 chip shares the same basic architecture as A19 Pro, it should come as no surprise that today’s leaked M5 benchmarks show similar GPU strengths in Geekbench testing.
When comparing M5 to last year’s standard M4 chip, the new chip showed the following CPU gains:
Single-core: about 10-12%
Multi-core: about 15%
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