Next generation M5 powered iPad Pro 13 stars in unboxing video, gets compared to its predecessor

Apple is expected to release some new iPads soon, perhaps in October. So we’re clearly at least a few weeks away from their official debut. That, however, hasn’t stopped one Russian YouTuber from presenting the M5 powered iPad Pro in the video you can see embedded below. It’s in Russian, of course, but if you have access to YouTube’s auto-dubbing feature, do try it – it’s surprisingly good, at least for this particular video, in getting the points across, even though the voice does sound a bit mechanical.

The M5 iPad Pro will ship in an identical box to that used by the M4 iPad Pro. This is the 13″ version here, with 256GB of storage. There will also be the same colors and the same screen size – cases for the 2024 iPad Pro will fit the new one, even. So it looks like the M5 chip will be the main update to the iPad Pro line this time around. The iPad is still made from aluminum, unsurprisingly.

The M4 powered iPad Pro 13 serves as a reference point, and next to the new one, it’s hard to tell which is which. The tablets both run Geekbench 6, and the new one finishes it a tad faster. It managed a single-core score of 4,133 and a multi-core score of 15,437. The former represents a 10% improvement over its predecessor’s 3,748 score, the latter a 15% improvement over last year’s model.

According to the benchmark’s listing, the L2 cache has increased by 50%, but not much else has changed, there are still 9 CPU cores. The 2025 model does get 12GB of RAM compared to 8GB in its predecessor’s 256GB variant, so that’s nice. In the Geekbench GPU benchmark, the M5 iPad Pro gets a 74,568 score, while the M4 iPad Pro got 55,702 – thus, the new one is around 33% better.

In AnTuTu v10, the M5 model gets a score of 3,137,936, the old one manages 2,897,765 points, making this year’s iPad Pro about 8% better than its predecessor. Interestingly, in AnTuTu, the old model’s CPU score is higher for some mysterious reason.