RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro Review: Strongest Android Small Tablet

The 2025 RedMagic Esports Tablet 3 Pro was RedMagic's first small tablet, and was also the strongest-performing small tablet on the market at the time. After scaling this peak, the 2026 RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro chose to go a step further, giving both liquid cooling and a 185Hz screen together.

Hmm? Why can a phone have both liquid cooling and air cooling, while the tablet only gets liquid cooling?

Because the liquid cooling size of the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is much larger than that of the RedMagic 11S Pro+. Everyone can discover this through the flowing coolant on the back cover, the liquid cooling piping is as long as one phone, and six-tenths of its area is as wide as one finger.

With such large liquid cooling, the cooling effect is naturally absurdly strong.

For example, "Teamfight Tactics" with 165 frames all-effects setting reaching an average power consumption of 17.12W. The RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro, relying solely on its own built-in liquid cooling system, can bring an average frame rate of 159.98 frames over a 38-minute match in a 27-degree air-conditioned room.

And during the match, the holding areas on both the front and back of the tablet did not exceed 40 degrees. The hottest area on the screen side is the very center, with a temperature of 42.2 degrees. While the hottest area on the back is to the right of the Snapdragon logo where fingers cannot touch, with a temperature of 46.5 degrees.

At this point 4WHAT, in a 29-degree environment without air conditioning turned on, turned off the "Ambient Occlusion" effect that most tests performance, then played another 32-minute ranked match. Although the average power consumption dropped to 9.34W, the average frame rate had already been maxed out to 165.33 frames.

From this, it can be seen that the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro, backed by large-size liquid cooling, can not only continuously withstand high-intensity performance output exceeding 17W in a 27-degree air-conditioned room. But can also easily handle games with power consumption exceeding 9W in a hot 29-degree environment in the south.

Besides mobile games, liquid cooling can also enhance those games that need to rely on a PC emulator to run. For example, the racing game "F1 2018", under a 30-degree room temperature environment, running a continuous benchmark test for 1 hour at 720P lowest graphics quality, can achieve an average frame rate of 52 frames.

This result is a solid 13 frames higher than the RedMagic 11S Pro+, which has both liquid cooling and air cooling. From this, it can be seen that the cooling efficiency of large-size liquid cooling will be noticeably stronger than the combination of "small-size air cooling + small-size liquid cooling".

Of course, the above tests are actually somewhat experimental in nature, and everyone usually would not play games in a hot 30-degree environment. So 4WHAT also played "Honor of Kings" for 1 hour in a 26-degree air-conditioned room, at 144 frames extreme graphics quality 10V10 mode.

Earlier, both the 30-degree room temperature and 17W power consumption were withstood. Now in such a cool environment, plus such a low power consumption of 7.32W, the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro's average frame rate is directly overflowing at full to 145.18 frames.

And on top of full frame rate, the hottest area of the entire tablet is only 39.1 degrees, while the two-hand holding areas are even "ice-cold" at only 30 to 32 degrees.

I believe everyone has heard a saying: there is no gain without loss, there is no loss without gain. The "gain" part has already been explored very thoroughly in the previous performance tests. So next let's focus on discussing the "loss" part.

First, the liquid cooling of the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is almost imperceptible during operation. Only when deliberately bringing the tablet to a distance of two fists from the eyes will one begin to hear the sound emitted by the liquid cooling pump.

Second is the effect on the fingers. The liquid cooling pump of the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro does indeed have slight vibration, but it is limited to that small area between the RedMagic logo and the Snapdragon logo. It can only be encountered when using the tablet in portrait mode, and holding the tablet with the right hand.

As for the effect on battery life. 4WHAT played "Honor of Kings" 10V10 mode with liquid cooling turned on. The power consumption over 1 hour was 27%, which is equivalent to being able to play for 3 and a half hours starting from a full charge. For a small tablet with a built-in 8300mAh battery, this is considered average.

Fortunately, the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro has USB-C ports on both the long side and the short side, allowing it to be charged while playing without interrupting operation. And both ports support 80W wired fast charging, going from no power to 17% in 10 minutes, to 56% in 30 minutes, and fully charged in 1 hour and 1 minute.

Overall, the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro is the strongest-performing Android small tablet, and may even be the strongest-performing Android device currently available.

Relying on its unrivaled liquid cooling, the fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite can continuously deliver high-intensity performance output. Graphics quality options that would cause other devices to overheat and drop frames after just a dozen or so minutes of running can be run by the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro at full frame rate throughout.

After far surpassing other small tablets in performance, the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro also has the unique skill of a PC emulator. It can log into a Steam account, sync game progress online, and run PC games offline in a no-network environment.

On this basis, the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro also has some qualities of fighting for the future. After all, it is equipped with a rather advanced 185Hz refresh rate display, and comes preset with a Destroyer Mode that allows the mobile platform to release full-power performance.

When PC emulator-compatible AAA titles become more and more numerous, and mobile games gradually support finer graphics quality or higher frame rate modes, all you need is a cooling back clip, and your RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro can keep fighting for another two years.

Strongest performance now, still capable of holding its own years later — this is the RedMagic Gaming Tablet 5 Pro.