Apple introduces the highly effective new iPad Pro with the M5 chip

October 15, 2025

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Apple introduces the highly effective new iPad Pro with the M5 chip

The new iPad Pro options the following era of Apple silicon, with a giant leap in AI efficiency, sooner storage, and the game-changing capabilities of iPadOS 26

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple immediately launched the brand new iPad Pro that includes the extremely highly effective M5 chip. M5 unlocks essentially the most superior iPad expertise ever, packing an unbelievable quantity of energy and AI efficiency into the ultraportable design of iPad Pro. Featuring a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in every core, M5 delivers a giant increase in efficiency for iPad Pro customers, whether or not they’re engaged on cutting-edge tasks or tapping into AI for productiveness. The new iPad Pro delivers as much as 3.5x the AI efficiency than iPad Pro with M4¹ and as much as 5.6x sooner than iPad Pro with M1.² N1, the brand new Apple-designed wi-fi networking chip, permits the newest era of wi-fi applied sciences with help for Wi-Fi 7 on iPad Pro. The C1X modem involves mobile fashions of iPad Pro, delivering as much as 50 % sooner mobile information efficiency than its predecessor with even larger effectivity, permitting customers to do extra on the go. Available in house black and silver, iPad Pro is available in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes, and options the Ultra Retina XDR show for an unparalleled viewing expertise. The game-changing options of iPadOS 26 supercharge iPad Pro and assist customers deal with demanding artistic {and professional} duties with ease. With staggering efficiency positive factors and breakthrough enhancements over M1 fashions, there has by no means been a greater time to improve. The new iPad Pro is accessible to pre-order beginning immediately, and might be available in shops starting Wednesday, October 22.

“Powered by the next generation of Apple silicon, the new iPad Pro delivers our most advanced and versatile iPad experience yet,” stated John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp 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.”

M5: The Next Big Leap in AI for iPad

Apple silicon continues to set iPad aside with industry-leading efficiency, superior applied sciences, energy effectivity, and AI capabilities. With the M5 chip powering iPad Pro, AI on iPad takes its subsequent large leap, with a extra superior GPU and CPU, and a sooner Neural Engine. The 10-core GPU introduces a brand new structure with a Neural Accelerator in every core, leading to an enormous increase in GPU efficiency for AI workloads. M5 delivers AI efficiency that’s as much as 3.5x sooner in comparison with M4,¹ and as much as 5.6x sooner than iPad Pro with M1.² The new iPad Pro is designed for AI and accelerates all kinds of workloads, similar to on-device diffusion-based picture era in apps like Draw Things, and AI video masking in apps like DaVinci Resolve. And the sooner 16-core Neural Engine delivers essentially the most energy-efficient efficiency for on-device AI, good for apps that use the Foundation Models framework and for Apple Intelligence options like creating in Image Playground.³

Next-Level Performance with M5

The M5 chip brings next-level efficiency, with a major increase to graphics efficiency and a sooner CPU. Incorporating a third-generation ray-tracing engine enabling extra sensible lighting, reflections, and shadows — M5 is right for visually intensive functions and gaming — iPad Pro has as much as 1.5x sooner 3D rendering with ray tracing than the previous-generation iPad Pro,¹ and as much as a whopping 6.7x sooner rendering efficiency than iPad Pro with M1.² M5 has as much as a 10-core CPU, with 4 efficiency cores and 6 effectivity cores, and is the world’s quickest CPU core. The sooner CPU is ideal for a spread of customers, together with graphic designers working with advanced vector graphics in apps like Adobe Illustrator, architects who routinely multitask throughout apps like SketchUp and Morpholio Trace, and enterprise customers who must rapidly launch and entry massive information throughout a number of apps.

iPad Pro with M5 delivers:

• Up to six.7x sooner 3D rendering with ray tracing in Octane X when in comparison with iPad Pro with M1,² and as much as 1.5x sooner than iPad Pro with M4.¹

• Up to 6x sooner video transcode efficiency in Final Cut Pro for iPad when in comparison with iPad Pro with M1,² and as much as 1.2x sooner than iPad Pro with M4.¹

• Up to 4x sooner AI picture era efficiency in Draw Things for iPad when in comparison with iPad Pro with M1,² and as much as 2x sooner than iPad Pro with M4.¹

• Up to three.7x sooner AI video upscaling efficiency in DaVinci Resolve for iPad when in comparison with iPad Pro with M1,² and as much as 2.3x sooner than iPad Pro with M4.¹

Faster Memory Bandwidth and Storage for More Seamless Multitasking

iPad Pro brings new enhancements to speed up general pace and responsiveness, together with a rise in unified reminiscence bandwidth, sooner storage learn and write speeds, extra beginning unified reminiscence, and quick cost help. With over 150GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth — a virtually 30 % enhance in comparison with the earlier era — the brand new iPad Pro helps customers multitask throughout extra apps, course of AI fashions sooner, play demanding video games, and extra. The new iPad Pro presents as much as 2x sooner storage learn and write speeds, and the 256GB and 512GB fashions begin with 12GB of unified reminiscence — 50 % greater than earlier than, bringing much more worth. And with the brand new windowing system in iPadOS 26, iPad Pro customers will expertise extra seamless multitasking, enhancing even essentially the most advanced workflows. Additionally, iPad Pro helps quick cost — enabling as much as a 50 % cost in round half-hour⁴ with an elective high-wattage USB-C energy adapter like Apple’s new 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.⁵

The C1X and N1 Chips Come to iPad

Cellular fashions of iPad Pro characteristic C1X, a mobile modem designed by Apple that brings customers as much as 50 % sooner mobile information efficiency, and for energetic mobile customers, as much as 30 % much less energy utilization than iPad Pro with M4. Cellular fashions of iPad Pro enable customers to take pleasure in GPS and site capabilities, to allow them to navigate with much more confidence. Users also can take pleasure in 5G mobile help, to allow them to keep related for work or leisure all all over the world. And with eSIM, customers can rapidly and securely add a brand new plan, join and switch present mobile plans digitally, and keep in contact with household and buddies no matter Wi-Fi availability — good for customers engaged on the go, like frequent enterprise vacationers or architects out within the area.

The new iPad Pro additionally options N1, a brand new Apple-designed wi-fi networking chip that permits Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread. N1 brings higher efficiency when related to 5GHz networks, and improves the general efficiency and reliability of options like Personal Hotspot and AirDrop.

An Unrivaled Design and Display

iPad Pro presents customers the final word degree of portability in a stunningly skinny and light-weight design. Available in house black and silver, the 11-inch mannequin is simply 5.3 mm skinny, and the 13-inch mannequin is even thinner at a putting 5.1 mm. The Ultra Retina XDR show — the world’s most superior show — options groundbreaking tandem OLED expertise that delivers excessive brightness, extremely exact distinction, and applied sciences like ProMovement and True Tone. iPad Pro helps 1000 nits of full-screen brightness for SDR and HDR content material, and 1600 nits peak brightness for HDR. And for customers who work with high-end, color-managed workflows or in difficult lighting circumstances, iPad Pro presents a nano-texture show glass possibility for diminished glare that’s exactly etched at a nanometer scale, sustaining picture high quality and distinction whereas scattering ambient gentle.

The new iPad Pro provides the power to drive exterior shows at as much as 120Hz — excellent for artistic workflows like video enhancing in addition to gaming. And for customers with a 120Hz exterior show, iPad Pro additionally brings new help for Adaptive Sync, which gives the bottom attainable latency in exterior show efficiency, leading to smoother movement and fewer perceived glitches, helpful for low-latency use circumstances like gaming.

iPadOS 26 Supercharges the iPad Experience

iPadOS 26 introduces a brand new design and highly effective options that assist customers deal with demanding artistic {and professional} duties with ease, and push the capabilities and flexibility of iPad even additional.

• The stunning new design is crafted with Liquid Glass, a translucent new materials that displays and refracts its environment, whereas reacting to customers’ enter and dynamically remodeling to carry larger focus to the content material they care about most.

• An solely new, highly effective, and intuitive windowing system helps customers management, manage, and swap between apps, all whereas sustaining the simplicity of iPad. And with a brand new menu bar, customers can entry the instructions obtainable in an app with a easy swipe down from the highest of the show, or by transferring their cursor to the highest.

• iPadOS 26 introduces new methods to handle, entry, and manage information with a supercharged Files app that includes an up to date List view and new folder customization choices. With folders within the Dock, customers can conveniently entry downloads, paperwork, and extra from anyplace. Additionally, customers can set a default app for opening particular information or file varieties.

• The Preview app involves iPad, giving customers a devoted app to view and edit PDFs, with highly effective options like Apple Pencil Markup and AutoFill inbuilt.

• Taking benefit of Apple silicon, iPadOS 26 unlocks new capabilities for artistic execs with Background Tasks, extra management over their audio enter, and the power to seize high-quality recordings with native seize.

• Apple Intelligence delivers useful and related intelligence that’s deeply built-in throughout working programs, whereas taking a rare step ahead for privateness in AI.⁶ New options throughout iPadOS 26 embody Live Translation in Phone, FaceTime, and Messages;⁷ new clever actions in Shortcuts; the power to establish and routinely categorize related actions in Reminders; and extra.

Advanced Accessories for iPad Pro

Accessories lengthen the flexibility of iPad Pro, opening up much more prospects for creativity and productiveness. Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C) supply customers two unbelievable choices for illustrating, note-taking, annotating, and extra. The skinny and light-weight Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro gives essentially the most superior expertise with a floating design, perform row, and lovely aluminum palm relaxation. iPad Pro can be suitable with the Smart Folio for iPad Pro, which attaches magnetically and helps a number of viewing angles.

iPad Pro and the Environment

Apple 2030 is the corporate’s bold plan to be carbon impartial throughout its total footprint by the tip of this decade by decreasing product emissions from their three greatest sources: supplies, electrical energy, and transportation. The new iPad Pro is made with 30 % recycled content material by weight, together with one hundred pc recycled aluminum within the enclosure, one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth components in all magnets, and one hundred pc recycled cobalt within the battery. It is manufactured with 55 % renewable electrical energy, like wind and photo voltaic, throughout the provision chain. iPad Pro can be designed to final and presents industry-leading software program help whereas assembly Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity and protected chemistry. The paper packaging is one hundred pc fiber-based and will be simply recycled.

Pricing and Availability

• Customers can pre-order iPad Pro with M5 beginning immediately on apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Store app in 31 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It will start arriving to prospects, and might be in Apple Store places and Apple Authorized Resellers, beginning Wednesday, October 22.

• The 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro with M5 might be obtainable in silver and house black finishes in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations.

• The 11-inch iPad Pro begins at $999 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $1,199 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Cellular mannequin. The 13-inch iPad Pro begins at $1,299 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $1,499 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Cellular mannequin. Additional technical specs, together with nano-texture glass choices, can be found at apple.com/retailer.

• With training financial savings, the 11-inch iPad Pro begins at $899 (U.S.), and the 13-inch iPad Pro begins at $1,199 (U.S.).

• Apple Pencil Pro and Apple Pencil (USB-C) are suitable with the brand new iPad Pro. Apple Pencil Pro is accessible for $129 (U.S.), and $119 (U.S.) with training financial savings. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is accessible for $79 (U.S.), and $69 (U.S.) with training financial savings.

• The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is accessible in black and white finishes. The 11-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $299 (U.S.), and the brand new 13-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $349 (U.S.). With training financial savings, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $279 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $329 (U.S.).

• The Magic Keyboard for iPad Air with M3 is now obtainable in black, and is suitable with the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air. The 11-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $269 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $319 (U.S.). With training financial savings, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $249 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is accessible for $299 (U.S.).

• The Apple-designed 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max is accessible for $39 (U.S.).

• AppleCare delivers distinctive service and help, with versatile choices for Apple customers. Customers can select AppleCare+ to cowl their new iPad, or within the U.S., AppleCare One to guard a number of merchandise in a single easy plan. Both plans embody protection for accidents like drops and spills, theft and loss safety on eligible merchandise, battery substitute service, and 24/7 help from Apple Experts. For extra info, go to apple.com/applecare.

• Apple presents nice methods to avoid wasting on the newest iPad. Customers can commerce of their present iPad and get credit score towards a brand new one by visiting the Apple Store on-line, the Apple Store app, or an Apple Store location. To see what their system is value, and for phrases and circumstances, prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.

• Customers within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card will pay month-to-month at 0 % APR after they select to take a look at with Apple Card Monthly Installments, they usually’ll get 3 % Daily Cash again — all up entrance. More info — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is accessible at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.

About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.

1. Results are in comparison with iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) models with 10-core CPU and 16GB of unified reminiscence.
2. Results are in comparison with iPad Pro 12.9-inch (fifth era) models with 8-core CPU and 16GB of unified reminiscence.
3. Genmoji and Image Playground can be found in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Japanese.
4. Testing was performed by Apple in August and September 2025. See apple.com/ipad-pro for extra info.
5. The 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max is accessible in Canada, China mainland, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the U.S.
6. Apple Intelligence is accessible in beta with help for these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Chinese (simplified), Japanese, and Korean. Some options might not be obtainable in all areas or languages. For characteristic and language availability and system necessities, see support.apple.com/en-us/121115.
7. Live Translation in Messages helps English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese (simplified). Live Translation in Phone and FaceTime is accessible for one-on-one calls in English (UK, U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain) when Apple Intelligence is enabled, on a suitable iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Later this 12 months, Live Translation in Phone and FaceTime will add language help for Chinese (Mandarin, simplified), Chinese (Mandarin, conventional), Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Some options might not be obtainable in all areas or languages.

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