Hello everyone, riddle43 here to talk to you about NVIDIA’S SHIELD CONSOLE. Now we all have heard of the Nivida shield and the Nivida tablet, well now they have decided to dive into the home console market but with a twist as this power house come with a Tega X! processor, which can play pc games and it supports 4K video output.
With the X1 chip inside the Nivida TV it will be able to handle graphics twice as well as the K1 chip found in their Shield Tablet. With that kind of power alot of these pc games will be able to make there way from the console to Android with games like, Crysis, Doom 3, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and those are just the tip of the iceberg. You will also get up to 1080P with 60FPS and you can broadcast to TWITCH..
So here what this beautiful piece of hardware has to offer in the tech specs below.
Processor: NVIDIA® Tegra® X1 processor
256-core Maxwell™ GPU with 3GB RAM
Video Features: 4K Ultra-HD ready with 4K playback and capture up to 60 fps (VP9, H265, H264)
Audio: 7.1 and 5.1 surround sound pass through over HDMI
High-resolution audio playback up to 24-bit/192 kHz over HDMI and USB
High-resolution audio up-sample to 24-bit/192 kHz over USB
Storage*: 16 GB
Wireless: 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 4.1/BLE
Interfaces: Gigabit Ethernet
HDMI 2.0
Two USB 3.0 (Type A)
Micro-USB 2.0
Micro sd slot
IR Receiver (compatible with Logitech Harmony)
Software Updates: SHIELD software upgrades directly from NVIDIA
Gaming Features NVIDIA GRID™ game streaming service
NVIDIA Share
NVIDIA GameStream™
Power: 40 W power adapter
Weight and Size Weight: 23 oz / 654 g
Height: 5.1 in / 130 mm
Width: 8.3 in / 210 mm
Depth: 1.0 in / 25 mm
Operating System: Android TV™, Google Cast™ Ready
Included Apps: PLEX and at the time of launch there’ll be over 50 games.
ALL this can be yours this May for $199 stay tuned here for more details..
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