YouTuber Wylsacom, who successfully leaked the M4 iPad Pro last year, now has his hands on the as yet unannounced M5 sequel.
As noted Apple guru Mark Gurman said simply while linking to the YouTube video below: WILD. But it seems that Wylsacom has done it again. Following last year's leak of the M4 iPad Pro, he now has his hands on the M5 follow-up, which has been squirrelled out of a Russian warehouse somewhere and into his hands.
With the usual caveats that this could all be rubbish — though Wylsacom's track record suggests otherwise — what do we have?
The form factor is the same, with the two front-facing cameras that have long been rumoured for this model nowhere in sight. There's a new 45 W charger, and bottom floor RAM seems to have been boosted to 12 GB. The main difference lies in the M5 chip.
The performance of the M5 is as iteratively in advance of the M4 as you would expect from an additional year's development. Single-core performance jumps 10%, multi-core performance jumps 15%. But here's where it gets interesting: GPU performance has increased by 35% according to Geekbench 6 testing of Metal graphic performance.
That would make it potentially an extremely interesting device to edit on to say the least, especially now all the mainstream NLEs are available on the machine with the debut of Premiere for iPhone.
Probably this month. Apple has yet to announce the new generation iPads, but given their appearance in Russia (where the company hasn't officially sold any products since 2022 and the Ukrainian invasion) it looks like the supply chain is being filled ahead of an 'immediate availability' style announcement, probably via a press release rather than an all-singing, all-dancing (pre-recorded) Infinite Loop event.