As I work through all my benchmarks and tests of the X16 Pro for the full written review you can at least see some of the results now in the below video. My X16 Pro written review should be a week or so off before it’s online. I’ll be flying to New Zealand soon for a months break, but I’ll still be reviewing tablets there. Hopefully, I’ll have the Chuwi Hi8 Pro and the Hi10 finally to review when I arrive. After they have both been delayed countless times.
Many of you are interested in the thermals of the X16 Pro. Well, it looks as if Teclast just used the same heat shield/spreader as the X98 Pro. The Atom X5 Z8500 reaches 85 degrees C when pushing it hard gaming and charging at the same time. Throttling accrued and I could feel the X16 Pro slow a little once this did happen.
As a result, some of the benchmarks in Windows are at Z8300 levels due to this. Not good to see, the odd thing is in Android temps never go over 45 degrees and it performs great without any throttling the whole time I have used the tablet in Android.
So if you still do plan to get this tablet and you’re not afraid to open it up, the X16 Pro could do with a copper heatsink mod. I still don’t understand why Teclast hasn’t added a thicker heatsink to address this issue. Who’s to blame? Intel’s reference design must have had specifications for the heatsink required to keep the X5 Z8500 Cherry Trail cool. Remember the X5 Z8500 ASUS Transformer Book T100HA I had suffers from the same heat issue and throttling.
I’m glad I only got the Pro version and not the higher clocked and more powerful X16 Power with an Atom X7 Z8700 with 8GB of Ram. That must either have another heat spreader/heatsink design on it, or throttle like crazy!