Qualcomm has taken a near-clean sweep of AnTuTu’s May Android tablet performance ranking, with the Vivo Pad 6 Pro edging out the pack and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 hardware filling most of the upper tier. The Vivo Pad 6 Pro tops the list with an average score of 4,132,697 points, while the iQOO Pad 6 Pro follows close behind at 4,081,031. Lenovo’s Legion Y700 5th Gen lands in third at 4,073,338, which fits its reputation as the compact tablet for people who think ”portable” should still mean ”fast enough to scare a laptop.”
The result is less a surprise than a reminder: high-end Android tablets are now being tuned as serious performance machines, not just oversized streaming slabs.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 fills the top six
What stands out is how crowded the top end has become without actually looking all that diverse. The Oppo Pad 5 Pro, OnePlus Pad 3 Pro, and Honor MagicPad 3 Pro 13.3 also appear near the front, all powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chips. That kind of concentration usually means two things: Qualcomm has the fastest silicon in the room, and tablet makers are happy to reuse it across multiple brands and price tiers.
- Vivo Pad 6 Pro – 4,132,697
- iQOO Pad 6 Pro – 4,081,031
- Lenovo Legion Y700 5th Gen – 4,073,338
- Oppo Pad 5 Pro – Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
- OnePlus Pad 3 Pro – Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
- Honor MagicPad 3 Pro 13.3 – Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 gets one shot in the top ten
MediaTek does get a foothold, but only barely. The Redmi K Pad 2 is the sole top-ten tablet running Dimensity 9500, and it still posts 3,716,562 points, which is good enough to stay in striking distance of the Snapdragon crowd. That lone appearance says less about a weak chip than about how aggressively Qualcomm is occupying flagship tablet slots right now.
Below that, the chart starts mixing in older Snapdragon-based models and even a tablet-laptop hybrid using Intel’s Core Ultra 5 228V. Benchmark rankings never capture display quality, battery life, or software polish, but they do show where vendors are choosing to spend their performance budget. For the moment, that budget is clearly going into Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
What the May ranking says about Android tablets
Android tablets have spent years trying to prove they can be more than big phones, and this list shows that the hardware argument is finally getting easier. The next question is whether that speed turns into better gaming, faster multitasking, and more convincing productivity features – or whether the numbers mostly become bragging rights for launch events and spec sheets.