RedMagic has revealed an initial teaser for its upcoming Gaming Tablet 5 Pro, positioning itself as a competitor to Lenovo's recently announced Legion Tab Gen 5. The new tablet appears to maintain the compact 9.06-inch (23 cm) form factor of its predecessor, the RedMagic Astra, rather than returning to the larger 10.9-inch (27.7 cm) design of the RedMagic Nova. The company has confirmed the tablet is coming soon but has not announced specific availability dates or pricing.
The Gaming Tablet 5 Pro arrives as Lenovo claims the title of first tablet with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset through the Legion Tab Gen 5, unveiled at MWC 2026 in Barcelona. Qualcomm announced same-day upstream Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC itself, with device tree patches covering CPUs, interrupt controllers, USB support, and other subsystems now under review for mainline inclusion. However, device-level Linux compatibility for tablets using this chipset depends on additional factors including bootloader policies and vendor kernel source releases, neither of which RedMagic has announced for the Gaming Tablet 5 Pro.
RedMagic previously released the Gaming Tablet 3 Pro in China last June before launching it globally as the RedMagic Astra one month later. That device featured the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, a 2.4K OLED display with 165 Hz refresh rate, up to 24 GB of RAM, and an enhanced 13-layer ICE-X cooling system. Based on RedMagic's previous release strategy, the Gaming Tablet 5 Pro will likely launch first in China before receiving a global release later in 2026 under a different product name. The teaser image suggests the company is sticking with the smaller tablet format that has defined recent releases rather than challenging larger devices like the Galaxy Tab S11.
