
A new leak benchmark shows Apple’s alleged M5 chip on an iPad, and it is almost sharp as desktop CPU.
We know that Apple is actually good in designing chips. Most of its chips have always improved contestants including Intel and Qualcomm. M5 is no exception.

As Moldy On Geekbench, an alleged benchmark of an unpublished iPad model shows it with the M5 chip.
It has a single-thread score of 4,133 points, and the multi-thread score sits at 15,437. The processor, which appears as some type of M5, is seen on 4.42 GHz.
It also has 12GB of RAM, it is likely that 256GB/512GB is coupled with storage.
M5 on iPad vs Snapdragon X Elite 2
When I saw the benchmark of Apple M5, I wondered how it was going to perform against Snapdragon X Elite 2.
For those unknown people, Qualcomm recently unveiled Snapdragon X Elite 2, its most powerful chip for Windows PC.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, which is the most powerful version in the lineup, is the 18-core oryan design with boosting up to 5.0 GHz on two core.
While Snapdragon X Elite 2 is not here yet and we will not look at any tools running the chip until 2026, we know a little about its performance.

In a Geekbench 6.5 benchmark, it scores around 4,080 in single-core and 23,491 in multi-core tests.
This is a good number, and it clearly defeats an iPad with M5.
However, Apple’s tablet still wins a single-thread performance from the nose in these early numbers.
The X2 moves comfortably in extreme multi-hedges as it doubles the core and the laptop can maintain a high total throwput in the chassis.
We are compared to an iPad with a full desktop CPU (Snapdragon), and it is still able to compete, which says much more about Apple’s perpetual design and frequency of Apple on low power.


