Teclast X3 Pro Is The Closest Thing That Will Take On Surface Pro 4

Teclast has been known for quite a while for making interesting Windows 10 powered tablets, and aside from that it, dual-OS slates have also been produced by the company. On this occasion, we take a look at the differences between Teclast X3 Pro and Microsoft’s flagship tablet, Surface Pro 4 and cover everything from top to bottom.

Teclast X3 Pro does compete with Surface Pro 4, but only just

When we say only just, we mean exactly that. If you might have noticed, Surface Pro 4 comes in a variety of different specifications, but the base model, which currently retails of $899.99 features an Intel Core M Skylake processor, and which Skylake processor? Core m3-6Y30, the same one present inside Teclast X3 Pro.

Now, not to be bashing out on Intel’s parade, but the company’s series of Core M processors are seriously underpowered, which is why you will find them present in the likes of tablets. However, we can both agree on the fact that Intel’s Atom processor lineup is definitely inferior to Core M, and that is where Teclast X3 Pro is going to provide you with the processing firepower that you need.

In case you wanted to know the technical side of Core m3-6Y30, they have been listed below:

• Manufacturing process: 14nm
• Base clock speed: 900MHz
• Turbo Boost clock speed: 2.2GHz
• Number of cores: 2
• Number of threads: 4
• Max memory bandwidth: 29.8GB/s

Now, you will obviously want to get to know how much performance can you can get out of this processor, and thankfully, we have Notebook Check for providing us with comprehensive results of the processor. Since there are way too many benchmarks, we will provide you with screenshots of the popular benchmarks, just to give you an idea of what kind of performance you can expect.

Benchmarking results

You can definitely get a decent amount of performance from the chip, but it is advised that you not push the limits of the processor, otherwise you will definitely start to experience some performance drops. For its price tag, Teclast X3 Pro is definitely the better choice, but if you are hell bent on purchasing a Surface Pro 4, then we will provide you with different specification models down below. However, our advice would be to purchase Microsoft’s flagship tablet’s latest rival, since it’s cheaper, and you are pretty much getting the same hardware.

Teclast X3 Pro actually has double the RAM compared to the entry-level model of Surface Pro 4

Before buying a Windows 10 tablet, you will have to ask yourself what kind of work you will be carrying out on it. These days, 4GB of RAM is the bare minimum, not to mention that you will experience a few setbacks in performance if you decide to fire up Microsoft Edge and open up a plethora of tabs. It is a good idea to go for a tablet that boasts 8GB of RAM, since you will have more headroom to work around with when you have to carry out several tasks on your Windows 10 slate.

This is where Teclast X3 Pro will provide you with the sweet spot since it features 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM, compared to 4GB of RAM present in the base model of Surface Pro 4.  Now, you can always choose to purchase an upgraded model of Surface Pro 4, one that comes with 8GB of RAM. However, that particular model carries a price of $1,299.

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