Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra VS Xiaomi Pad 7S Pro 12.5 (512GB / 12GB RAM)

In terms of physical footprint, the Xiaomi Pad 7 Ultra is notably larger, measuring 305.8 × 207.5 mm compared to the 279.1 × 192 mm of the Pad 7S Pro. This translates into a meaningfully bigger screen area and a higher total volume (323.6 cm³ vs 310.8 cm³), which is the expected trade-off for a larger display device. Interestingly, despite its larger body, the Pad 7 Ultra is actually thinner at 5.1 mm versus the 7S Pro's 5.8 mm — a real engineering feat that gives it a more premium, svelte feel in hand. However, that larger chassis does add weight: the Pad 7 Ultra comes in at 609 g, about 24 g heavier than the 7S Pro's 585 g. Over long reading or video sessions held in one hand, that difference can be noticeable.

A significant functional divergence is that the Pad 7 Ultra supports a detachable keyboard, while the Pad 7S Pro does not. For users who want to use their tablet as a productivity or laptop-replacement device, this is a major advantage for the Ultra — no third-party solution is needed. Neither tablet includes a stylus, features tilt sensitivity, offers a backlit keyboard option, or carries any water resistance rating, so those aspects are evenly matched (or rather, equally absent) across both.

Overall, the Pad 7 Ultra has a clear design edge for productivity use thanks to its detachable keyboard support and slimmer profile, but the Pad 7S Pro is the more portable option — lighter and more compact, which matters for users prioritizing on-the-go convenience over a larger canvas and desktop-style input.

The most consequential difference here is panel technology. The Pad 7 Ultra uses an OLED/AMOLED display, while the Pad 7S Pro relies on an LCD IPS panel. This gap is hard to overstate: OLED delivers true blacks, vastly superior contrast ratios, and more vibrant colors by lighting pixels individually, whereas LCD depends on a backlight that prevents truly deep blacks. For media consumption, creative work, or simply browsing in a dark room, the Ultra's OLED experience is in a different league. Both tablets support Dolby Vision and HDR10, but those formats will render more faithfully on OLED, where the hardware can actually meet the contrast demands of HDR content.

Flip to the numbers, though, and the Pad 7S Pro fights back in two areas. Sharing the same 3200 × 2136 resolution across a smaller 12.5″ screen results in a sharper 308 ppi density versus the Ultra's 275 ppi on its larger 14″ panel. The difference is perceptible in fine text and detailed illustrations, giving the 7S Pro a slight crispness edge. The 7S Pro also edges ahead on refresh rate at 144Hz compared to the Ultra's 120Hz, which translates to marginally smoother scrolling and animation — a perk more relevant to gamers and power users than casual consumers.

On balance, the Pad 7 Ultra holds the display advantage for most use cases. The jump from LCD to OLED is a more impactful real-world upgrade than the modest gains in pixel density and refresh rate offered by the Pad 7S Pro. Unless pixel sharpness or that extra 24Hz are primary priorities, the Ultra's panel technology makes it the stronger display performer overall.

At the silicon level, these two tablets are effectively identical. Both run on the Xring O1 chipset built on a 3nm process, paired with the ARM Immortalis-G925 GPU clocked at 1612 MHz. The CPU configuration — a 10-thread big.LITTLE arrangement spanning cores at up to 3.9 GHz — is shared verbatim, and that parity shows up precisely in benchmarks: both score 8125 multi-core and 2709 single-core in Geekbench 6. In day-to-day use, gaming, or sustained workloads, expect no difference whatsoever in raw processing or graphics performance.

Where the Pad 7 Ultra pulls ahead is in memory and storage configuration. It ships with 16GB of RAM versus 12GB on the Pad 7S Pro, and doubles the internal storage at 1024GB compared to 512GB. The RAM advantage is meaningful for heavy multitaskers — keeping more apps alive in the background, handling large files in creative or productivity apps, or sustaining longer gaming sessions without memory pressure. The storage gap matters most for users who accumulate large media libraries, use their tablet as a primary work device, or avoid cloud dependency. Neither device offers expandable storage, making these factory configurations the ceiling.

Given the shared chipset, this group is essentially a tie on performance but a clear win for the Pad 7 Ultra on capacity. The extra RAM and double the storage are tangible long-term advantages, particularly since neither tablet allows memory expansion after purchase.

Camera hardware is remarkably uniform across these two tablets. Both feature a 50 MP main camera and a 32 MP front camera, share identical apertures (f/1.8 rear, f/2.2 front), and cap video recording at 4K/60fps. The full manual control suite — ISO, exposure, white balance, and focus — is present on both, as are continuous autofocus during video, HDR mode, and slow-motion recording. For a tablet camera comparison, this level of parity is notable; neither device differentiates itself through sensor resolution or video capability.

The Pad 7S Pro does carve out a handful of modest advantages in shooting features. It supports in-camera panorama and a serial shot (burst) mode, both absent on the Pad 7 Ultra. It also includes a dual-tone LED flash, which produces more natural-looking artificial light by blending warm and cool tones — a small but genuine quality-of-life improvement over the Ultra's single-tone flash in low-light still photography.

Neither tablet stands out as a serious camera device, and the differences here are minor. That said, the Pad 7S Pro holds a narrow edge in this group: panorama support, burst mode, and dual-tone flash are all practical additions that the Ultra simply lacks, giving the 7S Pro slightly more shooting flexibility despite the otherwise identical hardware foundation.

Audio is a clean sweep for neither side — these two tablets are spec-for-spec identical in this category. Both offer stereo speakers, support LDAC for high-resolution wireless audio over Bluetooth, and omit both a 3.5mm headphone jack and an FM radio. There is simply no differentiator to analyze here.

The shared LDAC support is worth noting for wireless audio enthusiasts: it allows Bluetooth transmission at up to 990kbps, significantly higher than standard codecs like SBC or AAC, meaning compatible headphones can receive near-lossless audio quality wirelessly. The absence of a headphone jack, while common in modern tablets, does mean wired listening requires a USB-C adapter on both devices.

This group is a complete tie. Audio hardware and features are identical across both tablets, so it plays no role in differentiating the two.

Battery capacity is where the Pad 7 Ultra asserts a straightforward advantage. Its 12000 mAh cell is approximately 13% larger than the Pad 7S Pro's 10610 mAh — a gap meaningful enough to translate into a noticeable real-world difference in screen-on time, particularly during demanding tasks like video playback, gaming, or productivity sessions. For a device intended as a primary content consumption or work tool, that extra headroom between charges matters.

It is worth contextualizing the capacity against screen size: the Pad 7 Ultra also drives a larger 14″ OLED panel, which typically consumes more power than a smaller LCD. So while the raw mAh lead is real, some of that advantage may be offset by the higher energy demands of its display. The Pad 7S Pro's smaller, LCD-based screen is inherently more power-efficient per inch. The net endurance difference in practice may therefore be narrower than the raw numbers suggest — though based strictly on the provided specs, this cannot be quantified further.

Both tablets support fast charging and share the same structural battery traits — non-removable, rechargeable, no wireless charging. The Pad 7 Ultra holds the edge in this group on capacity alone, but the real-world gap in endurance may be more modest than the 1390 mAh difference implies.

Across a broad and largely identical feature set, three specific differences stand out. The Pad 7S Pro supports Wi-Fi 6E in addition to Wi-Fi 7, giving it access to the uncongested 6GHz band — useful in dense environments like offices or apartment buildings where the 5GHz band is heavily saturated. The Pad 7 Ultra skips Wi-Fi 6E, though its Wi-Fi 7 support means it is not falling behind in forward-looking wireless capability. In practice, the gap matters mainly for users whose routers support 6E but not yet Wi-Fi 7.

The more consequential trade-offs come from two hardware features each tablet holds exclusively. The Pad 7 Ultra includes NFC, which enables contactless payments and quick device pairing — a meaningful convenience for users who rely on tap-to-pay or NFC-based workflows. The Pad 7S Pro counters with an infrared sensor, turning the tablet into a universal remote for TVs, air conditioners, and other IR-controlled appliances — a niche but genuinely useful feature in home or office settings. Bluetooth is 5.4 on both, and all other connectivity and software features — USB 3.2, fingerprint scanner, split screen, widgets, on-device ML — are shared equally.

This group ends in a functional tie with different strengths. The Pad 7 Ultra's NFC is the more broadly useful addition for most users, while the Pad 7S Pro's infrared sensor and Wi-Fi 6E support cater to specific but legitimate use cases. Which tablet ″wins″ here comes down entirely to which of those exclusive features aligns with a buyer's daily routine.

The Miscellaneous group offers nothing to separate these two tablets. Both use DDR5 memory and support multithreading — and that is the entirety of the data available here. DDR5 is the current-generation memory standard, bringing higher bandwidth and improved power efficiency compared to DDR4, but since both devices share it equally, it confers no advantage to either side.

This is a complete tie with no differentiating factors present in this group.