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After the Xiaomi 18 Fold took the top spot in AnTuTu’s flagship smartphone rankings, its bigger sibling has now claimed the number one position on the Android tablet leaderboard.
According to the September 2026 results published on the AnTuTu website, the Xiaomi Pad 9 Pro Max posted the highest score among all tested Android tablets. The 13.3″ slate is powered by Xiaomi’s own Xring O3 chipset and managed to clearly outpace the iQOO Pad Ultra, even though the iQOO model uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and comes with an active cooling fan.
The Pad 9 Pro Max unit that was tested came with 16 GB of LPDDR6 RAM and 1 TB of storage. That faster memory type helped push the overall score higher. The iQOO Pad Ultra was tested in the same 16 GB / 1 TB configuration but used the slower LPDDR5X Ultra RAM, which explains part of the gap.
The rest of the top 10 is mostly filled with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 tablets from Oppo, Lenovo, Vivo, and Honor. No MediaTek-powered devices made the list, though there aren’t many high-end MediaTek tablets on the market right now anyway.
The result shows that Xiaomi’s Xring O3 is becoming a real contender. Snapdragon is still the default choice for most premium Android devices this generation, but Xiaomi’s in-house chip has now topped both the smartphone and tablet AnTuTu charts in successive rankings. Tablets also give the chip more thermal headroom than foldable phones, which helps it sustain higher performance for longer.
Benchmarks don’t always tell the full story about day-to-day use, but consistent leadership on AnTuTu is still a clear signal of what the Xring O3 can do. The Pad 9 Pro Max’s strong showing further positions Xiaomi’s custom silicon as a serious alternative in the high-end Android space.
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(Source: AnTuTu)
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