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

Graphics Performance

Testing the GPU

Neither tablet knocked it out of the park in the GFXBench Off Screen test. The Venue 8 is a value-priced tablet, so you shouldn’t expect it to be a graphics powerhouse, but the Venue 8 Pro’s price tag makes its graphics performance in this benchmark a little more disappointing.

3DMark Ice Storm Extreme tells a similar story. The tablets outmatched the Galaxy Notes that we’ve tested, but fell behind the new Nexus 7 and, of course, the Apple iPad Air and mini. In 3DMark: Ice Storm's Unlimited setting, the Venue 8 scored 7738 and the Venue 8 Pro rolled in with 15508.

We put the Android-based Venue 8 through a few tests that aren’t available for Windows tablets. The Venue 8’s scores here are more of the same: it’s a fairly inexpensive tablet that can handle itself, but isn’t built for screaming graphics performance.

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.