NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet: The Fastest Tablet Available

Name: NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet: The Fastest Tablet Available
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, July 31, 2014, 11:00 AM EDT

GFXBench has been one of our standard graphics performance benchmarks for a while. Recently, the company updated its software to version 3.0. With this new version, the old tests are no longer available to run for comparison. Still, we were able to round up a handful of devices to give you a feel for how the SHIELD Tablet stacks up.

GFXBench 3.0

Android Gaming Benchmarks

This was another impressive showing for the SHIELD Tablet. After having used the device for a few days, experiences game and benchmark performance first-hand, it's obvious that the 192 Kepler cores in the Tegra K1 have some serious gaming chops.

SunSpider

General Compute - JavaScript Processing Benchmark

Next up, we have some numbers from the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. This benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, not the DOM or other browser APIs. It is designed to compare different versions of the same browser, and different browsers to each other, but it can also be used as an indicator as to how well a particular platform handles JavaScript.

The SHIELD Tablet landed about in the middle of the pack here. Its score was good, but it trailed some recently-released devices like the Galaxy Tab S, and the Intel-powered tablets.

Tags: Nvidia, Gaming, Mobile, tablet, Controller, tegra, SHIELD, K1

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