Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 dominates AnTuTu’s May 2026 tablet ranking, taking the top six spots. The Vivo Pad 6 Pro leads the pack with an average score of 4,132,697 points.
The runner-up is the iQOO Pad 6 Pro with 4,081,031 points, followed by Lenovo’s Legion Y700 5th Gen at 4,073,338 points. The gaps are small enough to make this look more like a knife fight than a parade, but the bigger story is how crowded the flagship tier has become around one chip. That kind of domination usually means platform maturity, better tuning, and fewer excuses for rivals.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 fills the top six
Qualcomm’s latest flagship chip is the common thread across the upper end of the list, appearing in the Oppo Pad 5 Pro, OnePlus Pad 3 Pro, and Honor MagicPad 3 Pro 13.3 as well. For tablet buyers, that usually translates into a familiar trade-off: strong benchmark numbers, broadly similar performance, and fewer reasons to pick one model purely on silicon.
That matters because tablet competition has shifted from ”can it run well?” to ”how well is the hardware package tuned around the same chip?” Once the processor race narrows, display quality, thermals, battery life, and software polish start doing the real work. Qualcomm may be winning the spec sheet, but device makers still have to prove they can make it feel fast instead of merely score fast.
Redmi K Pad 2 keeps MediaTek in the conversation
The lone MediaTek outlier in the top ten is the Redmi K Pad 2, which uses the Dimensity 9500 and posts an average score of 3,716,562 points. That is good enough to stay firmly in the mix, even if it sits behind the Snapdragon-powered crowd.
Below that, the chart gets more varied, with the H3C MegaBook powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 5 228V and older Snapdragon-based tablets such as the Oppo Pad 4 Pro and OnePlus Pad 2 Pro making an appearance. That mix is a reminder that benchmark lists are less about crowning a universal winner and more about showing which platforms are being pushed hardest by manufacturers right now.
What the May Android tablet ranking says
Benchmark charts never tell the whole story, but they do show where momentum is headed. For now, the answer is obvious: Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 tablets are setting the pace, and the Vivo Pad 6 Pro is holding a slim lead over a field that is starting to look increasingly familiar.
The next question is whether that lead survives once more vendors ship tuned devices around the same chip, or whether one of the few non-Qualcomm holdouts can turn a better design into a better real-world tablet. Benchmarks may love a clean ranking, but the buying public usually prefers a surprise.