It's well established by now that Apple's chip designs are really fast in single-threaded performance, as well as exceedingly power-efficient. Both the M4 Max in the Mac Studio and the A19 Pro ensconced in the iPhone Pro have been widely praised, but things have been quiet for a while on the iPad front, until today. A presumable M5 chip showed up in GeekBench, hitting a single-thread score of 4,133 points, a score higher than any stock-clocked CPU tested.
The device in question is an "iPad 17,3" device, almost assuredly the impending 2025 revision of the iPad Pro. The chip has nine cores (three performance cores, six efficiency cores) clocked at 4.42 GHz. The amount of RAM is listed as 12 GB, leading one to think that this is a revision of the 256/512 GB model (14 W SoC TDP), as the current higher-end iPad Pros with 1/2 TB of storage also have 10-core CPUs and 16 GB of RAM, as well as a correspondingly higher TDP of 22 W.
