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Rather than going for a CPU from the Snapdragon range, Dell have opted for an Intel Atom Z3580 processor. This is a quad-core chip, and is paired with 2GB of RAM.
For everyday use, the Venue 8 was phenomenal. Everything was so fast and responsive – switching the screen on is as close to instant as we will ever get, and apps barely needed to load before roaring into life. The Atom CPUs included with the ASUS ZenFone range were fast, but the latest generation is clearly something else.
We were similarly impressed by the benchmarks.
In GeekBench 3, the Venue 8 scored 924 for single-core performance, and a tasty 2729 for multi-core performance. This is just behind the Nexus 9, which scored 1962 and 3373, respectively. It is worth remembering, however, the Nexus uses the Tegra K1 chip – which utilises actual Kepler GPU architecture, so the Z3580 is not going to be quite at the same level.
When it came to the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited test, the Dell scored 20401. The Nexus was again ahead, with 24473.
Just a note about 16GB + SD card with KitKat: in my experience with the Galaxy Tab S 8.4, that’s quite useless. I guess it depends on use, but a 2.5GB game can only move 100MB to the SD card, and most apps can only access the SD card read-only. So even though I have a 64GB microSD card, it gets next to no use, while the device storage is always full. So this Dell may be able to use a 512GB card, but it’s pretty pointless.
By the way, it would be interesting to compare this to the Galaxy Tab S 8.4.