Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus VS Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra

The two tablets take noticeably different physical approaches. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra is dramatically thinner at 5.1 mm versus the Yoga Tab Plus's 8.5 mm, giving it a more premium, svelte feel in hand. However, the S11 Ultra is also physically larger — wider and taller — and heavier at 695 g versus 640 g. Despite occupying more surface area, Samsung's extreme thinness results in a meaningfully smaller total volume (347 cm³ vs 466 cm³), so it takes up less space in a bag even if it feels more unwieldy to hold one-handed.

Where the Yoga Tab Plus pulls ahead significantly is in out-of-box productivity: it includes a detachable keyboard and a stylus with tilt sensitivity, meaning it arrives ready for both note-taking and typing without extra purchases. The S11 Ultra includes a stylus as well but offers no keyboard accessory and lacks tilt sensitivity on the pen, which limits pressure-based artistic workflows. Neither keyboard is backlit, though only the Yoga Tab Plus has one at all.

On durability, the S11 Ultra holds a clear edge with an IP68 rating — full submersion protection — compared to the Yoga Tab Plus's IP53, which only guards against splashing and light rain. For users in demanding or outdoor environments, this is a meaningful real-world difference. Overall, the Yoga Tab Plus wins on design value and stylus versatility, while the S11 Ultra wins on thinness and water protection — making the right choice highly dependent on use case.

The most fundamental difference here is panel technology. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra uses an OLED/AMOLED display, which delivers per-pixel lighting, true blacks, and vastly superior contrast compared to the LCD IPS panel on the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus. This gap becomes especially noticeable when watching movies or working with dark-themed content. Samsung reinforces this advantage with a 1000 nits typical brightness rating versus Lenovo's 650 nits, making the S11 Ultra considerably more usable in bright outdoor or well-lit indoor conditions.

Sharpness, however, tilts toward the Yoga Tab Plus. Despite having a smaller 12.7″ screen, it achieves a higher pixel density of 273 ppi compared to the S11 Ultra's 239 ppi on its larger 14.6″ panel. The practical difference is subtle at tablet viewing distances, but text and fine detail will appear fractionally crisper on Lenovo's display. On refresh rate, the Yoga Tab Plus edges ahead with 144Hz versus 120Hz — a meaningful advantage for stylus users and anyone sensitive to motion smoothness, though the gap is less dramatic than the panel-type difference.

HDR support splits along ecosystem lines: the S11 Ultra covers HDR10 and HDR10+, while the Yoga Tab Plus supports Dolby Vision instead. Neither covers both standards, so compatibility will depend on the streaming services and content libraries a user relies on. Both tablets include anti-reflection coatings, leveling that playing field. Overall, the S11 Ultra holds a clear display advantage for media consumption and outdoor use, driven by its superior panel technology and brightness — the Yoga Tab Plus's higher pixel density and refresh rate offer marginal offsets but don't overcome the OLED gap.

These two tablets sit at opposite ends of the silicon spectrum. The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (4 nm), while the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra is powered by MediaTek's newer Dimensity 9400 Plus (3 nm). The smaller node on Samsung's chip generally enables better power efficiency at equivalent workloads — and the benchmark numbers reflect a real performance gap. The S11 Ultra scores 8969 multi-core and 2874 single-core in Geekbench 6, compared to 7325 multi-core and 2213 single-core for the Yoga Tab Plus. Single-core performance is especially telling for everyday responsiveness, and Samsung's lead of roughly 30% there is substantial.

The GPU story follows the same pattern. The S11 Ultra's Immortalis G925 runs at 1300 MHz versus the Adreno 750's 900 MHz on the Yoga Tab Plus, which translates to a meaningful advantage in graphics-intensive tasks like gaming or video editing. Memory bandwidth reinforces this further — Samsung's RAM operates at a striking 10667 MHz compared to 4800 MHz on Lenovo, and overall memory bandwidth is higher at 85.3 GB/s versus 76.6 GB/s. In practice, this faster memory pipeline reduces bottlenecks when handling large files, multitasking, or running demanding apps.

Storage and expandability also favor the S11 Ultra: it ships with 1024 GB of internal storage versus 512 GB, and crucially it adds a microSD slot for further expansion — a feature absent on the Yoga Tab Plus. Both tablets share 16 GB of RAM and a maximum ceiling of 24 GB. Taken together, the S11 Ultra holds a clear and consistent performance advantage across CPU, GPU, memory speed, and storage — making it the stronger choice for power users and demanding workflows.

Camera systems are rarely a primary buying factor for tablets, and these specs largely confirm why — neither device pushes the boundaries here. Both share a 13 MP primary rear sensor, identical flash and autofocus configurations, and the same manual controls including ISO, white balance, exposure, and focus. Slow-motion video, touch autofocus during recording, and HDR mode are present on both. The feature parity across the rear camera systems is striking, with one notable exception: the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra pairs its main sensor with an 8 MP secondary rear camera, compared to just 2 MP on the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus. A 2 MP secondary lens offers very limited real-world utility — typically only sufficient for basic depth mapping — while 8 MP opens the door to more usable ultra-wide or depth shots.

The front camera gap is arguably more consequential for tablet users, since video calls are a far more common use case than rear photography. Samsung equips the S11 Ultra with a dual 12 + 12 MP front camera system, which can support wider field-of-view capture — useful for group calls on a large-screen device. The Yoga Tab Plus offers a single 13 MP front camera, which is competitive in resolution but lacks the flexibility of a dual setup. Neither tablet includes a front-facing flash, and optical image stabilization is absent on both rear systems.

Overall, the S11 Ultra edges ahead in cameras — not dramatically, but meaningfully — thanks to its more capable secondary rear sensor and dual front camera arrangement. For users who rely on their tablet for frequent video conferencing or occasional rear photography, these additions provide tangible flexibility that the Yoga Tab Plus cannot match on specs alone.

On paper, the audio specs for these two tablets are identical — and that is itself the story. Both the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra feature stereo speakers, omit a 3.5 mm headphone jack, and support none of the premium Bluetooth audio codecs such as aptX, LDAC, or aptX Adaptive. Users who prefer wired headphones will need a USB-C adapter on either device, and those seeking high-fidelity wireless audio — where codecs like LDAC or aptX Lossless would preserve more detail than standard Bluetooth SBC — will find no advantage on either side.

The absence of advanced Bluetooth audio codecs is a tangible limitation for audiophiles pairing premium wireless headphones, as standard Bluetooth compression will apply regardless of headphone quality. That said, for the majority of tablet users relying on built-in speakers for media consumption, the shared inclusion of stereo speaker setups ensures a spatially wider soundstage than mono alternatives on both devices.

Based strictly on the provided specs, this category is a complete tie. There is no differentiator between the two products here, and neither holds any audio specification advantage over the other.

Battery capacity is one area where the two tablets are close but not identical. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra packs an 11600 mAh cell versus the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus's 10200 mAh — a difference of roughly 14%. In absolute terms, that gap is meaningful enough to translate into a noticeable extension in real-world usage time, particularly during sustained tasks like video playback, document editing, or prolonged web browsing sessions.

However, battery life is not determined by capacity alone. The S11 Ultra's larger, higher-brightness OLED panel and more powerful chipset will draw more power under load, potentially offsetting some of its raw capacity advantage. Conversely, the Yoga Tab Plus's smaller LCD panel and lower-clocked chip may be more frugal with the energy it does have. The provided specs do not include discharge rate or efficiency data, so a direct runtime conclusion cannot be drawn purely from capacity figures.

What can be stated clearly is that both tablets support fast charging and share the same structural limitations — no wireless charging and no removable battery. On the specs provided, the S11 Ultra holds a nominal edge by virtue of its larger battery, but the practical gap in real-world endurance may be narrower than the mAh difference suggests.

Wireless connectivity is where these two tablets begin to diverge meaningfully. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra supports Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be), a standard the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus lacks — topping out at Wi-Fi 6E instead. Wi-Fi 7 delivers significantly higher throughput and lower latency on compatible routers, which becomes relevant for users in congested environments or those transferring large files. Curiously, the Yoga Tab Plus lists a higher theoretical download speed of 10000 Mbits/s versus the S11 Ultra's 7300 Mbits/s, though both figures far exceed what real-world networks can currently deliver. Both share Bluetooth 5.4 and USB Type-C, but the S11 Ultra steps up to USB 3.2 versus USB 3.1, offering faster wired data transfers.

The most impactful connectivity gap is mobility. The S11 Ultra includes a cellular module with 5G support, enabling internet access anywhere — the Yoga Tab Plus is Wi-Fi only. Paired with this, Samsung's tablet includes GPS, a compass, and Galileo satellite support, making it a genuinely capable navigation device untethered from a phone. The Yoga Tab Plus offers none of these location features. For users who need their tablet to function independently away from a Wi-Fi network, this is a decisive differentiator.

Security and sensor coverage also tip toward the S11 Ultra, which adds a fingerprint scanner absent on the Yoga Tab Plus. Software feature parity is otherwise high — both support split screen, PiP, dark mode, dynamic theming, on-device machine learning, and privacy controls. The S11 Ultra holds a clear and broad advantage in this category, particularly for users who need cellular connectivity, location independence, or faster wired and wireless data options.

The miscellaneous category for these two tablets contains only two data points, and both are identical. The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra both use DDR5 memory and both support multithreading. DDR5 is the current generation standard, offering improved bandwidth and efficiency over DDR4 — and as confirmed in the Performance group, both tablets leverage this for high-speed memory operation. Multithreading allows each CPU core to handle multiple instruction streams simultaneously, contributing to smoother performance under mixed or parallel workloads.

This category is a complete tie. There are no differentiators between the two products in the provided specs, and neither holds any advantage over the other here.