October 15, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces the highly effective new iPad Professional with the M5 chip
The brand new iPad Professional 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 Professional that includes the extremely highly effective M5 chip. M5 unlocks probably the most superior iPad expertise ever, packing an unimaginable 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 tasks 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 sooner than iPad Professional with M1.2 N1, the brand new Apple-designed wi-fi networking chip, allows the newest era of wi-fi applied sciences with assist for Wi-Fi 7 on iPad Professional. The C1X modem involves mobile fashions of iPad Professional, delivering as much as 50 % sooner mobile knowledge efficiency than its predecessor with even higher effectivity, permitting customers to do extra on the go. Out there 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 inventive {and professional} duties with ease. With staggering efficiency features and breakthrough enhancements over M1 fashions, there has by no means been a greater time to improve. The brand new iPad Professional is out there to pre-order beginning immediately, and can be stocked in shops starting Wednesday, October 22.
“Powered by the following era of Apple silicon, the brand new iPad Professional delivers our most superior and versatile iPad expertise but,” mentioned John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp of {Hardware} Engineering. “iPad Professional with M5 unlocks countless 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 Large 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 massive leap, with a extra superior GPU and CPU, and a sooner 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 sooner in comparison with M4,1 and as much as 5.6x sooner than iPad Professional with M1.2 The brand new iPad Professional is designed for AI and accelerates all kinds of workloads, similar to on-device diffusion-based picture era in apps like Draw Issues, and AI video masking in apps like DaVinci Resolve. And the sooner 16-core Neural Engine delivers probably the most energy-efficient efficiency for on-device AI, excellent for apps that use the Basis Fashions framework and for Apple Intelligence options like creating in Picture Playground.3
Subsequent-Stage Efficiency with M5
The M5 chip brings next-level efficiency, with a major enhance to graphics efficiency and a sooner CPU. Incorporating a third-generation ray-tracing engine enabling extra sensible lighting, reflections, and shadows — M5 is good for visually intensive purposes and gaming — iPad Professional has as much as 1.5x sooner 3D rendering with ray tracing than the previous-generation iPad Professional,1 and as much as a whopping 6.7x sooner 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 sooner CPU is ideal for a variety of customers, together with graphic designers working with complicated vector graphics in apps like Adobe Illustrator, architects who routinely multitask throughout apps like SketchUp and Morpholio Hint, and enterprise customers who must rapidly launch and entry giant recordsdata throughout a number of apps.
iPad Professional with M5 delivers:
- As much as 6.7x sooner 3D rendering with ray tracing in Octane X when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 1.5x sooner than iPad Professional with M4.1
- As much as 6x sooner video transcode efficiency in Remaining Minimize Professional for iPad when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 1.2x sooner than iPad Professional with M4.1
- As much as 4x sooner AI picture era efficiency in Draw Issues for iPad when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 2x sooner than iPad Professional with M4.1
- As much as 3.7x sooner AI video upscaling efficiency in DaVinci Resolve for iPad when in comparison with iPad Professional with M1,2 and as much as 2.3x sooner 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, sooner storage learn and write speeds, extra beginning unified reminiscence, and quick cost assist. With over 150GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth — a virtually 30 % improve in comparison with the earlier era — the brand new iPad Professional helps customers multitask throughout extra apps, course of AI fashions sooner, play demanding video games, and extra. The brand new iPad Professional gives 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 Professional customers will expertise extra seamless multitasking, enhancing even probably the most complicated workflows. Moreover, iPad Professional helps quick cost — enabling as much as a 50 % cost in round half-hour4 with an non-compulsory 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 characteristic C1X, a mobile modem designed by Apple that brings customers as much as 50 % sooner mobile knowledge efficiency, and for energetic mobile customers, as much as 30 % much less vitality utilization than iPad Professional with M4. Mobile fashions of iPad Professional enable customers to get pleasure from GPS and placement capabilities, to allow them to navigate with much more confidence. Customers may get pleasure from 5G mobile assist, to allow them to keep linked for work or leisure all around the globe. And with eSIM, customers can rapidly and securely add a brand new plan, join and switch current mobile plans digitally, and keep in contact with household and mates no matter Wi-Fi availability — excellent for customers engaged on the go, like frequent enterprise vacationers or architects out within the area.
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 Unmatched Design and Show
iPad Professional gives customers the last word degree of portability in a stunningly skinny and lightweight design. Out there 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 expertise 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 circumstances, iPad Professional gives a nano-texture show glass choice for lowered 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 — splendid for inventive workflows like video modifying in addition to gaming. And for customers with a 120Hz exterior show, iPad Professional additionally brings new assist for Adaptive Sync, which supplies 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 Expertise
iPadOS 26 introduces a brand new design and highly effective options that assist customers deal with demanding inventive {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 remodeling to carry higher focus to the content material they care about most.
- A wholly new, highly effective, and intuitive windowing system helps customers management, manage, and change 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 recordsdata with a supercharged Recordsdata app that includes an up to date Checklist 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 recordsdata 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.
- Profiting from Apple silicon, iPadOS 26 unlocks new capabilities for inventive 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 programs, whereas taking a unprecedented step ahead for privateness in AI.6 New options throughout iPadOS 26 embrace Dwell Translation in Cellphone, FaceTime, and Messages;7 new clever actions in Shortcuts; the power to determine and routinely categorize related actions in Reminders; and extra.
Superior Equipment for iPad Professional
Equipment prolong the flexibility of iPad Professional, opening up much more prospects for creativity and productiveness. Apple Pencil Professional and Apple Pencil (USB-C) provide customers two unimaginable 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, operate row, and lovely aluminum palm relaxation. iPad Professional can be appropriate with the Good Folio for iPad Professional, which attaches magnetically and helps a number of viewing angles.
iPad Professional and the Surroundings
Apple 2030 is the corporate’s formidable plan to be carbon impartial throughout its whole footprint by the top of this decade by lowering product emissions from their three largest sources: supplies, electrical energy, and transportation. The brand new iPad Professional 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 parts in all magnets, and one hundred pc recycled cobalt within the battery. It’s manufactured with 55 % renewable electrical energy, like wind and photo voltaic, throughout the provision chain. iPad Professional can be designed to final and gives industry-leading software program assist whereas assembly Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity and protected chemistry. The paper packaging is one hundred pc fiber-based and might be simply recycled.
Pricing and Availability
- Clients can pre-order iPad Professional with M5 beginning immediately on apple.com/retailer, and within the Apple Retailer app in 31 nations and areas, together with the U.S. It is going to start arriving to clients, and can be in Apple Retailer places and Apple Approved Resellers, beginning Wednesday, October 22.
- The 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Professional with M5 can be obtainable 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 schooling 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 appropriate with the brand new iPad Professional. Apple Pencil Professional is out there for $129 (U.S.), and $119 (U.S.) with schooling financial savings. Apple Pencil (USB-C) is out there for $79 (U.S.), and $69 (U.S.) with schooling financial savings.
- The Magic Keyboard for iPad Professional is out there in black and white finishes. The 11-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $299 (U.S.), and the brand new 13-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $349 (U.S.). With schooling financial savings, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $279 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $329 (U.S.).
- The Magic Keyboard for iPad Air with M3 is now obtainable in black, and is appropriate with the 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air. The 11-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $269 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $319 (U.S.). With schooling financial savings, the 11-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $249 (U.S.), and the 13-inch Magic Keyboard is out there for $299 (U.S.).
- The Apple-designed 40W Dynamic Energy Adapter with 60W Max is out there for $39 (U.S.).
- AppleCare delivers distinctive service and assist, with versatile choices for Apple customers. Clients 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 embrace protection for accidents like drops and spills, theft and loss safety on eligible merchandise, battery alternative service, and 24/7 assist from Apple Consultants. For extra info, go to apple.com/applecare.
- Apple gives nice methods to save lots of on the newest iPad. Clients 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 system is price, and for phrases and circumstances, clients can go to apple.com/store/trade-in.
- Clients within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card will pay month-to-month at 0 % APR once they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, they usually’ll get 3 % Each day Money again — all up entrance. Extra info — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is out there at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. As we speak, 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 gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the perfect 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 carried out by Apple in August and September 2025. See apple.com/ipad-pro for extra info.
- The 40W Dynamic Energy Adapter with 60W Max is out there in Canada, China mainland, Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the U.S.
- Apple Intelligence is out there in beta with assist for these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Chinese language (simplified), Japanese, and Korean. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas or languages. For characteristic and language availability and system necessities, see assist.apple.com/en-us/121115.
- Dwell Translation in Messages helps English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese language (simplified). Dwell Translation in Cellphone and FaceTime is out there 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 appropriate iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Later this 12 months, Dwell Translation in Cellphone and FaceTime will add language assist for Chinese language (Mandarin, simplified), Chinese language (Mandarin, conventional), Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Some options is probably not obtainable in all areas or languages.
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