The Vivo Pad 5 has a physical footprint of 266.4 mm wide and 192 mm tall, with a slim 6.6 mm profile and a weight of 590 g, giving it a relatively lean build for its size. The tablet carries a water-resistant rating, adding a degree of everyday resilience against moisture. It does not include a stylus, a detachable keyboard, or a backlit keyboard, and it lacks a rugged build designation as well as pen tilt sensitivity support.
The Vivo Pad 5 features a 12.1-inch LCD IPS touchscreen with a resolution of 2800 x 1968 pixels and a pixel density of 283 ppi, delivering a sharp and detailed image across its large panel. Both the refresh rate and touch sampling rate run at 144Hz, ensuring smooth visual output and responsive input. The display supports HDR10, enabling compatible content to render with expanded contrast and color range, though it does not support HDR10+, Dolby Vision, or e-paper technology, and the panel is not protected by branded damage-resistant or sapphire glass.
The Vivo Pad 5 is driven by the Mediatek Dimensity 9300 Plus, a 4nm chipset housing 22,700 million transistors with an 8-thread CPU configured at 1 x 3.4, 3 x 2.85, and 4 x 2 GHz using big.LITTLE and HMP technologies, alongside an Arm Immortalis-G720 MC12 GPU clocked at 1300 MHz with DirectX 12, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 2 support. The tablet comes with 16GB of RAM running at 4800 MHz across two memory channels, delivering a maximum memory bandwidth of 76.8 GB/s and supporting up to 24GB, paired with 512GB of internal storage and no external memory slot. It achieves Geekbench 6 scores of 7547 multi-core and 2302 single-core, supports 64-bit processing, has integrated LTE and integrated graphics, and ships with Android 15, with cache organized as 8MB L2 and 18MB L3.
The Vivo Pad 5 has an 8 MP rear camera with a CMOS sensor capable of recording video at 1080p and 30 fps, supported by a single LED flash, a video light, touch autofocus, and continuous autofocus during video recording. Manual controls cover ISO, focus, exposure, and white balance, while HDR mode is available for stills, though there is no optical zoom, no optical image stabilization, no slow-motion recording, no HDR10 or Dolby Vision recording, and no timelapse or panorama functionality. On the front, a 5 MP camera is present without a front-facing flash, and neither the rear nor front camera setup includes a BSI sensor, dual-tone flash, RGB flash, or 3D capture capabilities.
The Vivo Pad 5 includes stereo speakers for built-in audio output, but omits a 3.5 mm headphone jack and has no radio. On the wireless audio side, the tablet does not support any aptX variants — including aptX, aptX HD, aptX Low Latency, aptX Adaptive, or aptX Lossless — nor does it support LDAC.
The Vivo Pad 5 houses a 10000 mAh rechargeable battery with support for fast charging and a battery level indicator, making it straightforward to monitor remaining charge. The battery is fixed and non-removable, and wireless charging is not supported.
The Vivo Pad 5 supports Wi-Fi 4 through Wi-Fi 7 (802.11n/ac/ax/be) and Bluetooth 5.4, with download and upload speeds reaching 10,000 and 7,000 Mbits/s respectively, while connectivity via cellular, 5G, NFC, HDMI, Ethernet, and infrared is absent. The USB Type-C port runs on USB 3.2, and sensors include a gyroscope and accelerometer, though there is no compass, barometer, fingerprint scanner, iris scanner, or 3D facial recognition. On the software side, the tablet offers a broad set of privacy tools covering location, camera and microphone access, app tracking controls, and clipboard warnings, though it does not support Mail Privacy Protection or cross-site tracking blocking. Productivity and usability features include split-screen, Picture-in-Picture, full-page screenshots, a media picker, widgets, sharing intents, customizable notifications, notification permissions, multi-user support, a child lock, dark mode, dynamic and manual theme customization, an extra dim mode, app offloading, the ability to play games while downloading, on-device machine learning, offline voice recognition, voice commands, device position tracking, and battery health check, while Quick Start, Wi-Fi password sharing, focus modes, and direct OS vendor updates are not available.
The Vivo Pad 5 uses DDR5 memory and does not employ multithreading.
