The Legion Y700 Gen 5 packs Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 power into an 8.8-inch tablet.
Most powerful 8.8-inch Android tablet right nowLenovo put the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 into a tablet this size for the first time.
PC game emulation ships in the operating systemGame Assistant includes a beta PC game emulator, a cut-down Game Hub that runs DRM-free x86 games on the ARM CPU.
A modest step up from the Gen 4Benchmarks improve (3DMark 6,694 to 7,343) but ETA Prime calls it not a huge upgrade in performance.
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ETA Prime introduces the Lenovo Legion Y700 Gen 5 as the most powerful 8.8-inch Android tablet, excited mainly by the CPU and the small, carryable form factor.
Spec-wise it runs the octa-core Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (two Orion V3 Phoenix cores at 4.6 GHz, six M cores at 3.62), Adreno 840 up to 1200 MHz, 12/16/24 GB RAM, 256 GB to 1 TB of UFS 4.1 Pro storage, a 165 Hz 1904x3040 IPS display at 800 nits, Wi-Fi 7, a 9,000 mAh battery with 68 W charging, and Android 16.
Benchmarks show gains over the Gen 4: multi-core a little over 10,000, 3DMark Wildlife Extreme up from 6,694 to 7,343, and AnTuTu 11 at 3,634,157 with CPU, GPU, memory and UX all higher.
The tablet adds a desktop mode over USB Type-C up to 4K 144 Hz and a built-in PC game emulator inside Game Assistant, a cut-down Game Hub with no Steam login that emulates x86 games natively rather than streaming them.
Gaming and emulation hold up well (Destiny Rising at 120 FPS, CarX Drift Racing 3 maxed at 60, Dolphin and NetherSX2 at 4x scale), though the beta PC emulator crashed on Witcher 3, and ETA Prime concludes it is not a huge upgrade over the Gen 4 but is coming to the US via Lenovo's website.
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“Today we're going to be taking a look at the most powerful 8.8 inch Android tablet on the market.”
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“It's lime green, and it's basically a special edition FIFA version.”
— ETA Prime
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“I've carried it everywhere. I've got a pretty big dent in the back of it from dropping it.”