Reply To: Advise on replacement tablet

[Evil E.]

The base frequency is exactly the same for both CPU’s (1.44 GHz), but the burst frequency differs quite a bit (1.84 GHz for the X5-Z8300 as opposed to 2.24 GHz for the X5-Z8500)… That means that the X98 Pro can be 21.75% faster than the X98 Plus under certain conditions.
I don’t know how often CPU-intensive games will run at burst frequency or for how long the CPU will be able to keep this up before it throttles down for thermal reasons, but it might be noticeable. 21.75% is a big difference… I suggest that you take a look at Chris’ review videos and check out and compare the benchmark numbers of both tablets : they’ll give you a fairly good indication of the difference in speed.

 

P.S. : I also noticed on the intel website that the X5-Z8300 specs list a max. amount of 2 GB RAM (1-channel) and 1x PCIe 2.0 lane, while the X5-Z8500 specs list max. 8 GB of RAM (2-channel) and 2x PCIe 2.0 lanes… But I noticed that the X98 Plus is equipped with 4 GB RAM according to the official teclast website specs ??? Did intel mess up the X5-Z8300 specs sheet or can the X98 Plus only see/use 2 GB of RAM ???