The May 2026 AnTuTu Android flagship chart has a new leader, and it is not a close call. The Red Magic 11S Pro+ posted 4,171,821 points, the highest score recorded in this month’s rankings, while Vivo and iQOO filled much of the rest of the upper tier, and Xiaomi was nowhere to be found in the top 10.
That shuffle matters because benchmark lists usually move slowly once a chip generation settles in. Instead, the race got tighter at the top, with just under 30,000 points separating first and third place. For buyers who treat synthetic scores like a sport, that is a tidy reminder that phone makers are still squeezing out extra performance even as storage costs climb and new launches thin out.
The May 2026 AnTuTu top three
The podium is crowded with familiar performance names:
- Red Magic 11S Pro+ – 4,171,821
- iQOO 15 Ultra – 4,144,802
- Vivo X300 Ultra Satellite Communication Edition – 4,103,004
From fourth through tenth, the list continues with the iQOO 15, Red Magic 11 Pro+, Realme GT8 Pro, Oppo Find X9 Ultra Satellite Communication Edition, Honor WIN, iQOO 15T, and Honor Magic 8 Pro. Vivo had the strongest overall showing, with four phones across its main brand and iQOO, which is exactly the sort of portfolio dominance that tends to show up when one company is leaning hardest on Qualcomm’s fastest silicon.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 dominates the chart
The chipset split tells the sharper story. Nine of the ten phones in May run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5, and only the Realme GT8 Pro uses MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500. That is not a mystery so much as a market signal: premium Android brands still seem to trust Qualcomm first when the goal is headline-grabbing benchmark numbers.
MediaTek is still in the fight, but this month’s table makes the current hierarchy pretty obvious. Qualcomm’s lead in raw scores is showing up where it hurts most for rivals – in public comparisons that manufacturers love to quote right up until the rankings stop cooperating.
Xiaomi misses out entirely
The standout absence is Xiaomi, a brand that has appeared in and out of previous rankings but failed to land a single device in May’s top 10. That leaves the field looking more fragmented than usual, with Red Magic, Vivo, iQOO, Honor, Oppo, and Realme each taking their turns in the spotlight instead of one company owning the whole board.
The more interesting question now is whether this is a one-month wobble or the start of a cleaner split between brands chasing benchmark bragging rights and brands chasing everything else. If June brings another Snapdragon-heavy sweep, the message will be hard to ignore: at the very top end of Android, performance still sells, and everyone else is playing catch-up.