Red Magic has jumped straight to the top of AnTuTu’s May rankings with the 11S Pro+, a gaming phone that pairs a full-screen design, an 8,000 mAh battery, 80 W charging, and a boosted Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The surprise is not that it is fast. It is that a phone launched in the second half of the month had enough data to take first place almost immediately.
The Chinese benchmarking list is a useful reminder that raw performance still depends on more than the chip label on the box. Cooling, sustained power delivery, and software tuning can move a device from ”very fast” to ”everyone else is playing for second place”, and Red Magic’s aggressive thermal setup looks like the reason this one pulled ahead so quickly.
The top three in AnTuTu’s May list
According to AnTuTu’s China-only data for 1 to 31 May 2026, the Red Magic 11S Pro+ averaged 4,171,821 points. It finished ahead of the iQOO 15 Ultra, which scored 4,144,802, and the Vivo X300 Ultra Satellite Communication Edition, which posted 4,103,004.
- Red Magic 11S Pro+ – 4,171,821
- iQOO 15 Ultra – 4,144,802
- Vivo X300 Ultra Satellite Communication Edition – 4,103,004
Why Red Magic’s gaming phone pulled ahead
The hardware recipe is a little unusual for a mainstream flagship. Red Magic gives the 11S Pro+ an under-display selfie camera and a cooling system that combines liquid cooling with active thermal management, while most rivals are still focused on making thin glass slabs look expensive. That extra headroom matters in synthetic benchmarks, especially when the phone is pushing the same Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform used by the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra.
AnTuTu’s own caveat is doing some work here: these are average scores, not best-ever runs, and a device needs at least 1,000 valid tests to make the list. That makes the result more credible, not less. It also helps explain why the rest of the top 10 is dominated by Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 devices, with only one outsider making the cut.
The only non-Snapdragon phone in the top 10
That lone exception is the iQOO 15T, powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500, which landed in ninth place. For MediaTek, that is still a solid showing; for Qualcomm, it is another month where the high end of Android performance looks crowded almost entirely with the same silicon family.
The bigger question is whether Red Magic can keep the lead once more phones with similar chips and better-tuned cooling systems arrive. Benchmarks tend to shuffle fast, but for now the message is clear: if you want bragging rights, the fastest Android phone is wearing a Red Magic badge.