The Nvidia Shield Portable, the only Android device so far that took gaming on the go seriously now has a brother called the Shield Tablet and wireless controller. The Shield tablet is powered by the Tegra K1 giving it the same architecture as the GTX Titan, but that doesn’t mean that the tablet is anyway close to a GTX class card. What it is is a Processor that can take the Nvidia optimized games available and give it some extra detail on the lines of PhysX and CUDA parallel Processing. That isn’t all the K1 is capable of doing. The GPU can pretty much let you to stream games from any GTX card (Kepler and above) with the NVIDIA GameStream™ technology.

Price is £239.99 for,16GB Wi-Fi and £299.99 for 32GB Wi-Fi, LTE

which is available to preorder now but the 32 GB version is coming soon

Specs

Processor – NVIDIA® Tegra® K1 192 core Kepler GPU,
2.2 GHz ARM Cortex A15 CPU with 2GB RAM
Display – 8-inch 1920×1200 multi-touch Full HD display
Audio – Front facing stereo speakers, dual bass reflex port with built-in microphone
Storage -32 GB (WiFi+4G LTE) / 16 GB (WiFi-only)
Camera – 5 megapixel cam

Shield wireless controller

Priced at £49.99 RRP

SHIELD TABLET COVER

Priced at £24.99 RRP

The NVIDIA® SHIELD™ tablet delivers the perfect mix of power, portability, and performance. Its NVIDIA Tegra® K1 mobile processor taps into the same Kepler™ architecture that drives the world’s most extreme gaming PCs. Plus, it features NVIDIA GameStream™ technology that lets you take PC gaming everywhere. Unbelievable graphics and audio make every song, music, game, and podcast incredibly crisp and clear. Pair it with the optional SHIELD wireless controller and discover a whole new level of gaming performance and control. Aspiring artists can even use the GPU-accelerated NVIDIA DirectStylus™ 2 to for great writing, or get creative with the NVIDIA Dabbler™ app’s hyper-realistic watercolor and 3D Paint.