Dell Venue 8 Pro and Venue 8 Do Windows and Android

Name: Dell Venue 8 and Dell Venue 8 Pro
Brand: Dell

by Joshua Gulick — Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 12:00 PM EDT

Thanks to cross-platform benchmarks, we can compare Android, iOS, and Windows tablets in several performance categories. Based on hardware alone, we expect the Venue 8 Pro to be particularly competitive.

General Compute, Javascript & Web Browsing Performance

General Purpose Workloads

The Android-based Dell Venue 8 handled itself just fine in the Linpack test. Apple’s tablets are hard to beat here, but the Venue 8 easily outmatched the Google Nexus 7 (2013 version).

We kicked off the SunSpider tests by running SunSpider 0.9.1 on both Venue 8 tablets. We have plenty of data to compare the tablets to, and you can see that the Venue 8 Pro handled the JavaScript benchmark particularly well. (Keep in mind that lower scores are better in this test.)

Version 1.0.2 of SunSpider is available now, so we put both tablets through the new test, as well. These are the first tablets we’ve tested with the new SunSpider and we weren’t surprised to find that the scores were noticeably different from the older version. The Dell Venue 8 scored 744.1, while the Venue 8 Pro scored 426.5 milliseconds.

Next, we put our Venue tablets through the Rightware BrowserMark test, and the Venues landed about where we expected them to, providing reasonable scores for their hardware, but landing behind the iOS-based tablets. Let’s take a look at how the tablets handled our graphics benchmarks.

Tags: Dell, Android, Intel Atom, Venue, NASDAQ: INTC, NASDAQ: Dell, Windows 8.1

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.