October 15, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces the highly effective new iPad Professional with the M5 chip
The brand new iPad Professional options the subsequent era of Apple silicon, with a giant leap in AI efficiency, quicker storage, and the game-changing capabilities of iPadOS 26
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at the moment launched the brand new iPad Professional that includes the extremely highly effective M5 chip. M5 unlocks probably the most superior iPad expertise ever, packing an unbelievable quantity of energy and AI efficiency into the ultraportable design of iPad Professional. That includes a next-generation GPU with a Neural Accelerator in every core, M5 delivers a giant enhance in efficiency for iPad Professional customers, whether or not they’re engaged on cutting-edge initiatives or tapping into AI for productiveness. The brand new iPad Professional delivers as much as 3.5x the AI efficiency than iPad Professional with M41 and as much as 5.6x quicker than iPad Professional 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 Professional. The C1X modem involves mobile fashions of iPad Professional, delivering as much as 50 p.c quicker mobile knowledge efficiency than its predecessor with even larger effectivity, permitting customers to do extra on the go. Accessible in area black and silver, iPad Professional is available in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes, and options the Extremely Retina XDR show for an unparalleled viewing expertise. The sport-changing options of iPadOS 26 supercharge iPad Professional and assist customers deal with demanding artistic {and professional} duties with ease. With staggering efficiency beneficial properties and breakthrough enhancements over M1 fashions, there has by no means been a greater time to improve. The brand new iPad Professional is offered to pre-order beginning at the moment, and will probably be stocked in shops starting Wednesday, October 22.
“Powered by the subsequent era of Apple silicon, the brand new iPad Professional delivers our most superior and versatile iPad expertise but,” mentioned John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice chairman of {Hardware} Engineering. “iPad Professional with M5 unlocks limitless prospects for creativity and productiveness — with an enormous leap in AI efficiency and a giant enhance in graphics, superfast wi-fi connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 options, it pushes the boundaries of what iPad can do but once more.”
M5: The Subsequent Massive 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 Professional, AI on iPad takes its subsequent huge leap, with a extra superior GPU and CPU, and a quicker Neural Engine. The ten-core GPU introduces a brand new structure with a Neural Accelerator in every core, leading to a large enhance in GPU efficiency for AI workloads. M5 delivers AI efficiency that’s as much as 3.5x quicker in comparison with M4,1 and as much as 5.6x quicker than iPad Professional with M1.2 The brand new iPad Professional is designed for AI and accelerates all kinds of workloads, equivalent to on-device diffusion-based picture era in apps like Draw Issues, and AI video masking in apps like DaVinci Resolve. And the quicker 16-core Neural Engine delivers probably the most energy-efficient efficiency for on-device AI, good for apps that use the Basis Fashions framework and for Apple Intelligence options like creating in Picture Playground.3
Subsequent-Degree Efficiency with M5
The M5 chip brings next-level efficiency, with a major enhance to graphics efficiency and a quicker CPU. Incorporating a third-generation ray-tracing engine enabling extra real looking lighting, reflections, and shadows — M5 is good for visually intensive functions and gaming — iPad Professional has as much as 1.5x quicker 3D rendering with ray tracing than the previous-generation iPad Professional,1 and as much as a whopping 6.7x quicker rendering efficiency than iPad Professional 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 quicker CPU is ideal for a variety 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 Hint, and enterprise customers who have to shortly launch and entry massive information throughout a number of apps.
iPad Professional with M5 delivers:
- As much as 6.7x quicker 3D rendering with ray tracing in Octane X when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 1.5x quicker than iPad Professional with M4.1
- As much as 6x quicker video transcode efficiency in Ultimate Lower Professional for iPad when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 1.2x quicker than iPad Professional with M4.1
- As much as 4x quicker AI picture era efficiency in Draw Issues for iPad when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 2x quicker than iPad Professional with M4.1
- As much as 3.7x quicker AI video upscaling efficiency in DaVinci Resolve for iPad when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 2.3x quicker than iPad Professional with M4.1
Quicker Reminiscence Bandwidth and Storage for Extra Seamless Multitasking
iPad Professional brings new enhancements to speed up total velocity and responsiveness, together with a rise in unified reminiscence bandwidth, quicker storage learn and write speeds, extra beginning unified reminiscence, and quick cost help. With over 150GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth — an almost 30 p.c improve in comparison with the earlier era — the brand new iPad Professional helps customers multitask throughout extra apps, course of AI fashions quicker, play demanding video games, and extra. The brand new iPad Professional provides as much as 2x quicker storage learn and write speeds, and the 256GB and 512GB fashions begin with 12GB of unified reminiscence — 50 p.c greater than earlier than, bringing much more worth. And with the brand new windowing system in iPadOS 26, iPad Professional customers will expertise extra seamless multitasking, enhancing even probably the most advanced workflows. Moreover, iPad Professional helps quick cost — enabling as much as a 50 p.c cost in round half-hour4 with an optionally available high-wattage USB-C energy adapter like Apple’s new 40W Dynamic Energy Adapter with 60W Max.5
The C1X and N1 Chips Come to iPad
Mobile fashions of iPad Professional function C1X, a mobile modem designed by Apple that brings customers as much as 50 p.c quicker mobile knowledge efficiency, and for lively mobile customers, as much as 30 p.c much less power utilization than iPad Professional with M4. Mobile fashions of iPad Professional enable customers to take pleasure in GPS and placement capabilities, to allow them to navigate with much more confidence. Customers can even take pleasure in 5G mobile help, to allow them to keep linked for work or leisure all all over the world. And with eSIM, customers can shortly and securely add a brand new plan, join and switch current mobile plans digitally, and keep in contact with household and pals no matter Wi-Fi availability — good for customers engaged on the go, like frequent enterprise vacationers or architects out within the discipline.
The brand new iPad Professional 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 linked to 5GHz networks, and improves the general efficiency and reliability of options like Private Hotspot and AirDrop.
An Unequalled Design and Show
iPad Professional provides customers the final word stage of portability in a stunningly skinny and lightweight design. Accessible in area black and silver, the 11-inch mannequin is simply 5.3 mm skinny, and the 13-inch mannequin is even thinner at a hanging 5.1 mm. The Extremely Retina XDR show — the world’s most superior show — options groundbreaking tandem OLED know-how that delivers excessive brightness, extremely exact distinction, and applied sciences like ProMotion and True Tone. iPad Professional 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 situations, iPad Professional provides 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 mild.
The brand new iPad Professional provides the power to drive exterior shows at as much as 120Hz — best for artistic workflows like video enhancing in addition to gaming. And for customers with a 120Hz exterior show, iPad Professional additionally brings new help for Adaptive Sync, which supplies the bottom doable 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 Expertise
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 gorgeous new design is crafted with Liquid Glass, a translucent new materials that displays and refracts its environment, whereas reacting to customers’ enter and dynamically reworking to convey larger focus to the content material they care about most.
- A completely 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 accessible in an app with a easy swipe down from the highest of the show, or by shifting their cursor to the highest.
- iPadOS 26 introduces new methods to handle, entry, and manage information with a supercharged Information app that includes an up to date Listing view and new folder customization choices. With folders within the Dock, customers can conveniently entry downloads, paperwork, and extra from anyplace. Moreover, customers can set a default app for opening particular information or file sorts.
- 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.
- Making the most of Apple silicon, iPadOS 26 unlocks new capabilities for artistic execs with Background Duties, 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 methods, whereas taking a unprecedented step ahead for privateness in AI.6 New options throughout iPadOS 26 embody Reside Translation in Cellphone, FaceTime, and Messages;7 new clever actions in Shortcuts; the power to determine and robotically categorize related actions in Reminders; and extra.
Superior Equipment for iPad Professional
Equipment lengthen the flexibility of iPad Professional, opening up much more prospects for creativity and productiveness. Apple Pencil Professional and Apple Pencil (USB-C) supply customers two unbelievable choices for illustrating, note-taking, annotating, and extra. The skinny and lightweight Magic Keyboard for iPad Professional supplies probably the most superior expertise with a floating design, perform row, and lovely aluminum palm relaxation. iPad Professional can also be suitable with the Good Folio for iPad Professional, which attaches magnetically and helps a number of viewing angles.
iPad Professional and the Setting
Apple 2030 is the corporate’s formidable plan to be carbon impartial throughout its complete footprint by the top of this decade by decreasing product emissions from their three largest sources: supplies, electrical energy, and transportation. The brand new iPad Professional is made with 30 p.c recycled content material by weight, together with 100% recycled aluminum within the enclosure, 100% recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets, and 100% recycled cobalt within the battery. It’s manufactured with 55 p.c renewable electrical energy, like wind and photo voltaic, throughout the provision chain. iPad Professional can also be designed to final and provides industry-leading software program help whereas assembly Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity and protected chemistry. The paper packaging is 100% fiber-based and might be simply recycled.
Pricing and Availability
- Prospects can pre-order iPad Professional with M5 beginning at the moment on apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Retailer app in 31 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It’s going to start arriving to prospects, and will probably be in Apple Retailer areas and Apple Approved Resellers, beginning Wednesday, October 22.
- The 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Professional with M5 will probably be accessible in silver and area black finishes in 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations.
- The 11-inch iPad Professional begins at $999 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $1,199 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin. The 13-inch iPad Professional begins at $1,299 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi mannequin, and $1,499 (U.S.) for the Wi-Fi + Mobile mannequin. Further technical specs, together with nano-texture glass choices, can be found at apple.com/retailer.
- With training financial savings, the 11-inch iPad Professional begins at $899 (U.S.), and the 13-inch iPad Professional begins at $1,199 (U.S.).
- Apple Pencil Professional and Apple Pencil (USB-C) are suitable with the brand new iPad Professional. Apple Pencil Professional is offered for $129 (U.S.), and $119 (U.S.) with training financial savings. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is offered for $79 (U.S.), and $69 (U.S.) with training financial savings.
- The Magic Keyboard for iPad Professional is offered in black and white finishes. The 11-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $299 (U.S.), and the brand new 13-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $349 (U.S.). With training financial savings, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $279 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $329 (U.S.).
- The Magic Keyboard for iPad Air with M3 is now accessible in black, and is suitable with the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air. The 11-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $269 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $319 (U.S.). With training financial savings, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $249 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is offered for $299 (U.S.).
- The Apple-designed 40W Dynamic Energy Adapter with 60W Max is offered for $39 (U.S.).
- AppleCare delivers distinctive service and help, with versatile choices for Apple customers. Prospects 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. Each 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 Consultants. For extra info, go to apple.com/applecare.
- Apple provides nice methods to avoid wasting on the newest iPad. Prospects can commerce of their present iPad and get credit score towards a brand new one by visiting the Apple Retailer on-line, the Apple Retailer app, or an Apple Retailer location. To see what their machine is price, and for phrases and situations, prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.
- Prospects within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card will pay month-to-month at 0 p.c APR after they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, they usually’ll get 3 p.c Every day Money again — all up entrance. Extra info — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is offered at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Outcomes are in comparison with iPad Professional 13-inch (M4) models with 10-core CPU and 16GB of unified reminiscence.
- Outcomes are in comparison with iPad Professional 12.9-inch (fifth era) models with 8-core CPU and 16GB of unified reminiscence.
- Genmoji and Picture Playground can be found in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Japanese.
- Testing was performed by Apple in August and September 2025. See apple.com/ipad-pro for extra info.
- The 40W Dynamic Energy Adapter with 60W Max is offered in Canada, China mainland, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the U.S.
- Apple Intelligence is offered in beta with help for these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Chinese language (simplified), Japanese, and Korean. Some options is probably not accessible in all areas or languages. For function and language availability and system necessities, see help.apple.com/en-us/121115.
- Reside Translation in Messages helps English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese language (simplified). Reside Translation in Cellphone and FaceTime is offered 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 yr, Reside Translation in Cellphone and FaceTime will add language help for Chinese language (Mandarin, simplified), Chinese language (Mandarin, conventional), Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Some options is probably not accessible in all areas or languages.
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