Apple M5 iPad

Apple M5 iPad

About processor

M5 iPad is a SmartPhone Flagship mobile processor manufactured by Apple. It was released on October 2025. The SoC is manufactured using the 3 nm fabrication process. It has 10 cores. The main feachers of the SoC are: L2 Cache - 16 MB, Frequency - 4600 MHz.

Basic

Label Name
Apple
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
October 2025
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
M5 (iPad)
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz – 6x 2.95 GHz –
Cores
10
Technology
3 nm
Frequency
4600 MHz

GPU Specifications

Max display resolution
2752 x 2064

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Bluetooth
6.0
Wi-Fi
7
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Memory Specifications

Memory type
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

L1 Cache
320 KB
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple Neural Engine
L2 Cache
16 MB
Audio codecs
- AAC - AIFF - CAF - MP3 - MP4 - WAV
Storage type
NVMe
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264 - H.265 - AV1 - VP9
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6
Single Core Score
4259
Geekbench 6
Multi Core Score
15265
AnTuTu 10
Score
3218762

Compared to Other SoC

Geekbench 6 Single Core
4259
1481 -65.2%
1015 -76.2%
756 -82.2%
384 -91%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
15265
4199 -72.5%
2787 -81.7%
1900 -87.6%
1209 -92.1%
AnTuTu 10
4177588 +29.8%
3218762
853696 -73.5%
636411 -80.2%
482197 -85%