Apple’s Ipad Pro Now Has A New M5 Processor Inside

Last year’s iPad Pro was a immense redesign.

Apple conscionable announced a caller exemplary of its champion and highest-end tablet, nan iPad Pro. The caller instrumentality comes pinch a mates of soul upgrades, astir notably a brand-new chip, nan M5. Apple says nan spot brings “up to 3.5x nan AI performance” of past year’s Pro, immoderate that means, on pinch large improvements successful various video tasks.

Apple seems to beryllium positioning nan instrumentality arsenic an upgrade for group who bought M1-powered Pros aliases older models, alternatively than thing M4 owners should beryllium suspicious of. But nan caller instrumentality really has a bunch of soul upgrades beyond conscionable nan caller processor. The Pro now besides comes pinch Apple’s caller C1X cellular modem (if you get nan cellular version), and nan N1 spot for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread. Apple accrued publication and constitute speeds to memory, too, and nan Pro moreover supports accelerated charging of up to 50 percent successful astir 30 minutes.

The 11-inch exemplary starts astatine $999, and nan 13-inch Pro astatine $1,299. They travel successful 2 colors, achromatic and silver. Both are disposable for pre-order now, and will beryllium shipping and successful stores connected October 22.

The past clip Apple upgraded nan iPad Pro was in May of 2024, and that instrumentality was a immense alteration from what had travel before. That Pro came pinch a new, thinner design, an OLED surface upgrade, caller accessories, and a much-improved camera setup. It was besides nan first instrumentality to tally nan M4 processor; Apple is apparently making a wont retired of debuting caller chips and caller tablets together. The M4 Pro has been the champion tablet connected nan market ever since. It’s a earnestly costly instrumentality — you tin walk $2,000 connected nan point without trying very difficult — but it’s a fabulous one.

Adding moreover much powerfulness to nan iPad Pro makes sense, arsenic Apple continues to move nan instrumentality into thing a batch much for illustration a laptop. With iPadOS 26, you tin now do almost free-form multitasking connected nan iPad, and paired pinch nan (also very good) Magic Keyboard accessory it tin do a batch of MacBook things. We’ve said for years that nan iPad’s bleeding-edge hardware has been held backmost by its hand-holding software, but nan level seems to beryllium opening up much and more. And arsenic Apple’s instauration models and different AI features commencement to make their measurement astir nan platform, you mightiness really beryllium capable to push nan M5 to its limits.