AnTuTu’s April fastest Android phones charts are a neat reminder that ”fastest” depends on where you measure it, and who is doing the measuring. In the China-only rankings based on average benchmark scores, iQOO ended the month with a clean sweep of the flagship and mid-range top spots, while Qualcomm and MediaTek split the bragging rights in very different ways.
In the flagship class, iQOO 15 Ultra took first place, followed by iQOO 15 and RedMagic 11 Pro+. That is not a typo: the podium is basically a Snapdragon party, with nine of the top ten phones using Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The lone exception is OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra, which runs Dimensity 9500. Qualcomm will happily frame that as a win; MediaTek will probably prefer the broader handset mix over one month of synthetic scores.
Flagship rankings and chip split
The rest of the flagship top ten reads like a who’s who of premium Android hardware: Realme GT 8 Pro, Oppo Find X9 Ultra, OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra, Honor Magic8 Pro, Honor Magic8, Vivo X300 Ultra, and OnePlus 15T. On paper, that concentration of Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phones says more about current vendor tuning than raw silicon bragging rights. AnTuTu averages reward consistency, not the single heroic run that makes a marketing slide look dramatic.
Mid-range Android phones belong to MediaTek
The middle tier tells the opposite story. iQOO Z11 led the category, ahead of Honor Power2 and Oppo K15 Pro, with the rest of the top ten filled by Reno15 Pro, Reno15, Redmi Turbo 5, Realme Neo7 SE, Oppo K13 Turbo, iQOO Z10 Turbo, and Oppo Reno14 Pro. Here, Qualcomm is nowhere to be seen in the top ten, while MediaTek’s 8000-series chips dominate the field.
- Dimensity 8500 appears four times
- Dimensity 8450 appears twice
- Dimensity 8400 appears four times
That split is a useful reality check. Qualcomm may be winning the flagship headline, but MediaTek owns the value segment where a lot of volume lives. For buyers, that usually matters more than victory laps at the very top.
Android tablets are another Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 showcase
The tablet rankings are less surprising. Vivo Pad6 Pro finished first, Lenovo Legion Tab Y700 (5th generation) came second, and Oppo Pad 5 Pro took third. All three use Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which is doing for Android tablets what it has already done for flagships: making the winner’s circle look very familiar.
Below them sit Redmi K Pad 2, Honor MagicPad3 Pro 13.3, Oppo Pad 4 Pro, H3C MegaBook with an Intel processor, OnePlus Pad 2 Pro, RedMagic Astra, and Xiaomi Pad 8 Pro. Four of the ten use Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, four use Snapdragon 8 Elite, and one is powered by Dimensity 9500. The tablet race is still more niche than the phone race, but the chip hierarchy is getting harder to ignore.
The obvious question is whether next month looks different. Probably not by much: AnTuTu’s China-only averages tend to reward the same brands until a new wave of launches shifts the balance, and right now the premium Android market is sitting squarely in Qualcomm’s lane up top and MediaTek’s lane below it. The real fight is no longer just who has the fastest chip, but who tunes it best across an entire phone lineup.