Xiaomi Pad 5 6GB 128GB Wi-Fi Cosmic Gray

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Gaming puts an even bigger drain on the battery. Streaming games over GeForce Now the tablet discharged an average of 22-25% of its battery. Taking things offline and playing games from the Play Store the tablet performed slightly better shedding an average of 18-20% per hour. This means you’re not going to want to rely on it as a mobile games station when travelling long distances. A full charge requires 2 hours sharp, not bad for a tablet. If you own the 33W charger, the full charge time drops down to 1 hour and 38 minutes. Time to full charge (from 0%) The tablet covered 99.2% of the sRGB gamut, which is the most commonly used gamut. It covered 82.5% of the Adobe RGB and 93.6% of the DCI P3 gamuts, which are favoured by creatives and cinematographers. Most of the tablets I test this price cover 70% of the creative gamuts, at best, so these scores are impressive.

Gaming performance is also very good, although the Adreno 640 GPU isn’t quite powerful enough to take full advantage of that 120Hz refresh rate. An average frame rate of 65fps in the GFXBench Manhattan 3 onscreen test is pretty good, but it could be better. Highlights include a super smooth, gaming ready 120Hz screen, powerful performance and long battery life. The Vivid (Auto) option is tuned to reproduce DCI-P3 faithfully, and we found it to be indeed fairly accurate, excluding the slightly bluish white and gray hues. If you want even more faithful color presentation, just opt for the Warm Color Temperature - that fixes the bluish whites. When it comes to audio loudness, the Redmi Pad is rated at -23.9 LUFS (Very Good), while the Xiaomi Pad 5 has a rating of -24.4 LUFS (Very Good). This setup is quite loud with incredibly balanced output - the Pad 5 scored a Very Good mark on our loudness test.We also measured the minimum brightness at point white and it's incredible - just 1.9 nit. Display test Let's start with the panel. It's a bright and colorful IPS LCD with native 10-bit color support. This means it can show up to 1 billion colors.

Conversely, the Xiaomi Pad 5 houses a slightly larger non-removable Li-Po 8720 mAh battery, capable of 33W wired charging with PD3.0 support. The tablet doesn’t have a formal IP water resistance rating, which is rarely standard on tablets, but I’ve been impressed with its build quality during testing. The Xiaomi Pad 5 has three predefined Color presets - Vivid (previously known as Auto), Saturated, and Standard - each representing a specific color space. You can also enable Adaptive Colors - the same thing Apple calls True Tone - adjust the colors depending on the ambient light.

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Colour accuracy is solid. In the tablet’s out of the box settings, I detected a 6870k colour temperature, which is suitably close to the 6500k ideal, and means the colours are only slightly cool. The tablet also has calibration options in its settings which lets you tweak the temperature to your liking. We cannot really complain of the charging speed, but we would have liked the Pad 5 better if it came with a 33W adapter instead of 22.5W - it clearly supports faster charging. Four Dolby Atmos speakers