Apple just released its new M5 iPad Pro, which is available for pre-order now and ships next week. Is the new M5 iPad Pro worth the upgrade from an M4 model? Here’s everything new in the latest model.
New M5 chip
Apple’s new iPad Pro is one of its first devices to feature the next-generation M5 chip.
The biggest gains touted for M5 come with the GPU, which now features Neural Accelerators just like iPhone 17’s A19 chip.
Apple says M5’s Neural Accelerators enable GPU-based AI workloads to perform at up to 4x the peak performance of last year’s M4 chip.
The CPU in M5 is faster too, but seemingly only moderately so. Leaked benchmarks estimate about 15% speed gains.
Depending on which storage option you choose, the M5 iPad Pro offers up to a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU. But you’ll lose a performance core and just get 9 CPU cores if you opt for a lower-cost model.
The 16-core Neural Engine is also faster than last year’s M4 version, but Apple doesn’t specify exactly how much faster.
More and better RAM than before
The M5 iPad Pro comes with solid upgrades to unified memory, especially for entry models.
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