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NVIDIA SHIELD Set-top Powered by Tegra X1 Specs and Impressions

Finally, a SHIELD Console
NVIDIA is filling out the family of the SHIELD brand today with the announcement of SHIELD, a set-top box powered by the Tegra X1 processor. SHIELD will run Android TV and act as a game playing, multimedia watching, GRID streaming device. Selling for $199 and available in May of this year, there is a lot to discuss.



Odd naming scheme aside, the SHIELD looks to be an impressive little device, sitting on your home theater or desk and bringing a ton of connectivity and performance to your TV. Running Android TV means the SHIELD will have access to the entire library of Google Play media including music, movies and apps. SHIELD supports 4K video playback at 60 Hz thanks to an HDMI 2.0 connection and fully supports H.265/HEVC decode thanks to Tegra X1 processor.



Obviously the most important feature is the Tegra X1 SoC, built on an 8-core 64-bit ARM processor and a 256 CUDA Core Maxwell architecture GPU. This gives the SHIELD set-top more performance than basically any other mobile part on the market, and demos showing Doom 3 and Crysis 3 running natively on the hardware drive the point home. With integrated HEVC decode support the console is the first Android TV device to offer the support for 4K video content at 60 FPS.

Even though storage is only coming in at 16GB, the inclusion of an MicroSD card slot enabled expansion to as much as 128GB more for content and local games.

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The first choice for networking will be the Gigabit Ethernet port, but the 2x2 dual-band 802.11ac wireless controller means that even those of us that don't have hardwired Internet going to our TV will be able to utilize all the performance and features of SHIELD.
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And here is Shield playing some nice games. Poor recording, so don't judge the quality from these video's

Doom 3 (part 1)
Doom 3 (part 2)
Crysis 3
 
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People on this board must be sleep.


NVIDIA now has a $199 streaming console to compete with Xbox, Sony and Nintendo. Good luck with that. Oh yea and witcher 3 was shown and it looked pretty mediocre to me. Don't know really what's going on with this game.

Im still waiting on some 390x news.
 
Did a quick update but too tired and will add anything of note when I get up. Thoughts on the Shield? For me personally, I can see the potential but it is meh! I want either a VR headset or news of some wonderful GPU. Maybe it will come still.
 
Great. What service will it use to stream games?

The only reason I mention Steam is it's the only streaming service I've used and most of my games library is on Steam.

I don't believe there's an android steam app, and the iOS version doesn't support streaming as far as I'm aware.
 
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Great. What service will it use to stream games?

The only reason I mention Steam is it's the only streaming service I've used and most of my games library is on Steam.

I don't believe there's an android steam app, and the iOS version doesn't support streaming as far as I'm aware.
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Shield streaming is an android app, you dont need anything other than an nvidia gpu and a shield device, its built in
 
To many consoles like this on the market and more powerful ones due out shortly after if the rumors are true. What this what was meant to redefining gaming?
 
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