Unreleased M5 iPad Pro 13-inch shown in video with 12GB RAM

A Russian YouTuber posted a video on September 30 that appears to show an unannounced 13-inch iPad Pro running Apple’s next-generation M5 chip, offering the first public look at the device’s hardware and benchmark performance ahead of an expected announcement in the fall. The footage, posted by the channel Wylsacom, shows an unboxed retail-style unit labeled as an M5 iPad Pro, the tablet powered on and set up, and benchmark screens that detail the new chip and memory configuration.

The video shows a tablet that is externally nearly identical to the current M4 iPad Pro models, retaining the same slim chassis, minimal bezels and a single rear camera. The back of the unit in the clip lacks the usual iPad Pro branding and some regulatory markings, which the uploader and onlookers say is consistent with a prerelease engineering sample. The software visible during setup is listed as iPadOS 26.0.

Internal specifications visible in the clip indicate the M5 chip retains a nine-core CPU layout, with three high-performance cores and six efficiency cores, mirroring the M4’s core configuration. The particular unit shown is a 256-gigabyte model that the video lists as having 12 gigabytes of...