Dell Venue 8 7000 Tablet (Review): Getting A RealSense

Name: Dell's Venue 8 7000 Tablet
Brand: Dell's

by Marco Chiappetta, Paul Lilly — Tuesday, February 03, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT

Inside the Dell Venue 8 7000 is an Intel Atom Z3580 quad-core processor based on Moorefield, along with 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM and Imagination PowerVR G6430 graphics.

CPU testing

iOS and Android CPU testing

Dell Venue 8 7000 SunSpider

We have a large collection of tablets to compare with in the SunSpider benchmark, and once sorted out, the Dell Venue 8 7000 falls in the middle of the pack trending slightly towards the higher end models. Performance is pretty good here, beating out slates like the Apple iPad 4 and Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 Pro, but falls behind more recent releases like the category leading iPad Air 2 and NVIDIA Shield.

Dell Venue 8 7000 BrowserMark

Rightware's Browsermark test is another web-based performance analyzer. It focuses on page loading and resizing, conformance testing for HTML5, network speed, and performance in the context of JavaScript, HTML5, WebGL, Canvas, CSS3/3D, and more.

Any tablet that scores in the 3,000 range is doing well, and Dell's Venue 8 7000 hovers 265 points above that mark. Its score is towards the higher end of the spectrum, though there's still a discernible between the Venue 8 7000 and tablets that consistently stand at the front of the pack.

Dell Venue 8 7000 Geekbench

We see the same in Geekbench -- the Venue 8 7000 manages to find itself on the high ground, though at a little more than an arm's length away from devices like the NVIDIA Shield Tablet and iPad Air 2.

Tags: Intel, Dell, Atom, tablet, RealSense, Moorefield

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com