iPad Pro 11″

8 chip options (A12X Bionic – M5)

M5 Generation Current

Spec M5
10c CPU / 10c GPU
M5
9c CPU / 10c GPU
Devices MacBook Air 15″
MacBook Air 13″
MacBook Pro 14″
iPad Pro 13″
iPad Pro 11″
Apple Vision Pro
iPad Pro 13″
iPad Pro 11″
CPU
CPU Cores 10 9
Super Cores 4 3
Super Core Speed (GHz) 4.61 4.61
Efficiency Cores 6 6
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.95 2.95
GPU
GPU cores 10 10
Execution Units 160 160
ALU Count 1280 1280
GPU Frequency (GHz) 2005 2005
TFLOPS 5.13 5.13
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 9th-gen Apple 9th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 61 61
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 153.6 153.6
Memory bus width (bits) 128 128
Memory channels 8 8
Memory channel width (bits) 16 16
Memory type LPDDR5X-9600 LPDDR5X-9600
Memory options (GB) 16
24
32
12
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1 1
Video Encode 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1
AV1 Decode 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 3 3
Release date 2025-10-15 2025-10-15

M4 Generation

Spec M4
10c CPU / 10c GPU
M4
9c CPU / 10c GPU
Devices iMac
Mac mini
CPU
CPU Cores 10 9
Performance Cores 4 3
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 4.4 4.4
Efficiency Cores 6 6
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.85 2.85
SLC Cache (MB) 20 20
GPU
GPU cores 10 10
Execution Units 160 160
ALU Count 1280 1280
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1470 1470
TFLOPS 4.26 4.26
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor 8th-gen Apple 8th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 38 38
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 120 120
Memory bus width (bits) 128 128
Memory channels 2 2
Memory channel width (bits) 64 64
Memory type LPDDR5X-7500 LPDDR5X-7500
Memory options (GB) 8
16
24
32
8
16
24
32
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1 1
Video Encode 1 1
ProRes Engines 1 1
AV1 Decode 1 1
Semiconductor Tech
Release date 2024-05-15 2024-05-15

M2 Generation

Spec M2
8c CPU / 10c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 8
Performance Cores 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.5
Efficiency Cores 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.42
L2 Cache (MB) 16
SLC Cache (MB) 8
GPU
GPU cores 10
Execution Units 40
ALU Count 1280
GPU Frequency (GHz) 1398
TFLOPS 3.578
GPU Vendor 5th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16
Neural Engine TOPS 15.8
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 102.4
Memory bus width (bits) 128
Memory channels 8
Memory channel width (bits) 16
Memory type LPDDR5-6400
Memory options (GB) 8
16
24
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
Video Decode 1
Video Encode 1
ProRes Engines 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5
Transistors (billion) 20
Release date 2022-06-24

M1 Generation

Spec M1
8c CPU / 8c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 8
Performance Cores 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.2
Efficiency Cores 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.06
L2 Cache (MB) 16
SLC Cache (MB) 8
GPU
GPU cores 8
Execution Units 128
ALU Count 1024
TFLOPS 2.6
GPU Vendor 4th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 16
Neural Engine TOPS 11
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 68.3
Memory bus width (bits) 128
Memory channels 8
Memory channel width (bits) 16
Memory type LPDDR4X-4266
Memory options (GB) 8
16
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5
Transistors (billion) 16
Release date 2020-11-10

A12 Generation

Spec A12Z Bionic
8c CPU / 8c GPU
A12X Bionic
8c CPU / 7c GPU
CPU
CPU Cores 8 8
Performance Cores 4 4
Performance CPU Name Vortex Vortex
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 2.49 2.49
Efficiency Cores 4 4
Efficiency CPU Name Tempest Tempest
CPU ISA ARMv8.3-A ARMv8.3-A
GPU
GPU cores 8 7
Execution Units 32 28
ALU Count 512 448
TFLOPS 1.152 1.008
Ray Tracing
GPU Vendor Apple Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 8 8
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 68.2 68.2
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory options (GB) 4
6
16
4
6
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
H264
HEVC
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 7 7
Transistors (billion) 10 10
Die size (mm²) 135 135
Part number APL1083 APL1083
Release date 2020-03-18 2018-10-30

Companion Silicon

N Series

Apple Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread wireless connectivity SoCs

Spec N1
Semiconductor Tech
Release date 2025-09-09