SOC

Apple M5 (iPad)

Apple 26 Specifications

About

The Apple M5 (iPad) is a SOC manufactured by Apple, built on Apple's officially announced 3 nm process technology. This processor features a 10-core architecture design. Overall specifications are targeted at mainstream high-performance application scenarios.

Specifications

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

Frequency

4600 MHz

Cores

10

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

320 KB

L2 cache

16 MB

Process

3 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

153 Gb/s

AI

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

Max display resolution

2752 x 2064

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9

Audio codecs

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

7

Bluetooth

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Oct 2025

Class

Flagship

Benchmarks

AnTuTu 10 3155649

Geekbench 6 Single Core 4175

Geekbench 6 Multi Core 15577

Performance Ranking

Geekbench 6 Single Core

1 Apple M5 (iPad) 4175

2 Apple A19 Pro 4019

3 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E 96 100) 4003

4 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E 90 100) 3995

5 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-88-100 3836

6 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 3834

7 MediaTek Dimensity 9500 3781

8 Apple M4 iPad 3767

9 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) 3740

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

2 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) 22784

3 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E 90 100) 20629

4 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-88-100 20306

5 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E 84 100) 16025

6 Apple M5 (iPad) 15577

7 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite 15226

8 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) 15200

9 Apple M4 iPad 14677

10 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100) 14595

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