NVIDIA SHIELD Tegra 4 Android Gaming Portable

Name: NVIDIA SHIELD Portable Gaming Device
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

In addition to using the NVIDIA SHIELD for portable gaming and in a variety of everyday usage scenarios, we also conducted some formal performance testing to see how well it compared to some of the other mobile devices we have recently evaluated. Since this is the first Tegra 4-based product we've gotten our hands on, we were particularly interested to see how it performed.

CPU testing

Android CPU testing

The Tegra 4 at the hear of the NVIDIA SHIELD finished in the pole position is the light-duty Linpack benchmark, outpacing the Snapdragon 600-based devices by a few percentage points.

The NVIDIA SHIELD absolutely crushed everything else we tested in the AnTuTu benchmark. This test will probably be going away soon since it's been the subject of some questionable optimizations for Intel hardware, but we're comparing all ARM-based solutions here.

As you can see, the SHIELD dominated all in the GPU, GPU, and RAM tests. The internal storage, however, performed about on par with other devices.

Tags: Nvidia, Gaming, Android, portable, Tegra 4, SHIELD

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