Nvidia Shield benchmarked and torn down: Is this the first and last Tegra 4 device?

Nvidia Shield benchmarked and torn down: Is this the first and last Tegra 4 device?

Yesterday, Nvidia’s Shield handheld game console was finally released to the public — and today, it has been torn down and benchmarked, revealing impressive performance figures for the Tegra 4′s first outing. The first batch of Shield reviews were generally mediocre, citing a high price and limited games library, but they did all agree on one positive point: The crippling lack of functionality aside, the hardware itself is seriously impressive.

The Android-powered Shield comes with a quad-core Tegra 4 SoC (four Cortex-A15 cores, plus a fifth low-power Cortex-A15 “companion core” that performs background tasks), a 72-core GPU, 5-inch 1280×720 display, 16GB of storage, and 2GB of RAM. There’s also a couple of speakers that reviewers are generally very complimentary about, and the usual WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Benchmark-wise, Tegra 4 is the currently the fastest Android device on the market, beating out Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 — though the iPad 4′s GPU still beats the Tegra 4 GPU in some tests.

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