Two Russian YouTubers have posted videos unboxing what appears to be an unannounced iPad Pro with an M5 chip. Rumors have indicated that Apple could launch an M5 iPad Pro as early as October, and these videos may be our first look at the actual product.
Externally, this new M5 iPad Pro doesn’t appear to have major differences from the M4 iPad Pro released in May 2024. Based on what’s shown in the videos, the new device is still a big, thin tablet with a relatively unobtrusive bezel, and it once again looks to only have one camera on the back.
The M5 iPad Pro is rumored to get a portrait front camera in addition to the landscape front camera available on the M4 model. In the video from one YouTuber, Wylsacom (who leaked an M4 MacBook Pro last year ahead of Apple’s official announcement), it’s difficult to see if this alleged new iPad has two front-facing cameras. The video from another YouTuber, Romancev768, shows a second sensor on the top of the iPad in portrait mode, but we haven’t seen anyone use it as a camera yet so it’s unclear what it may do.
The iPads in the videos are also missing the “iPad Pro” text found on the back of the M4 model — the only things you can see on the back of the new tablet are the antenna line, the camera system, and the Apple logo.
Wylsacom ran some Geekbench 6 tests on this alleged M5 iPad Pro and an M4 iPad Pro to compare benchmarks across the two models. For the CPU tests, the M5 iPad Pro got a single-core score of 4,133 and a multi-core score of 15,437, while the M4 iPad Pro got a single-core score of 3,718 and a multi-core score of 13,324. For the GPU tests, the M5 iPad Pro got a score of 74,568 and the M4 iPad Pro got a score of 55,702.
Apple didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. But if Apple is indeed going to launch an M5 iPad Pro sometime soon, we may not have to wait too much longer to see if the tablet in these videos are the real deal.
Update, September 30th: Added details from a second video.
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