NVIDIA Shield Review: At the Crossroads of PC and Mobile Gaming
by Brian Klug on July 31, 2013 12:14 AM ESTNAND Performance
Like most Android devices, there's nothing special when it comes to Shield's internal NAND performance. We see reasonable sequential read speeds, although sequential write performance on our model was a bit slower than we'd like to see from a modern device. Random read performance is quite competitive, but as always it's random write performance that's in serious need of improvement. As we pointed out in our earlier piece on Android 4.3 and TRIM, that update will be necessary to maintain reasonable storage performance over the long haul. It's imperative that NVIDIA gets Android 4.3 running on Shield asap.
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Dug - Friday, August 2, 2013 - link
Thanks for the review. I think the ability to stream computer games to this is a huge draw for me.Most of the time I need to be in the "family room" and I can't bring all of my computer gear out there. That way I can still casually play games and interact with the rest of the family. I really dislike a big gaming laptop.
I hope you can follow up with more games being played from the PC.
I also run MAME on my main computer. I wonder if you could stream that to the sheild.
The other option I'm looking at is the PS4 as they say you can stream games from that to the VITA.
fivefeet8 - Thursday, August 8, 2013 - link
You can run MAME natively on the Shield using Retroarch. It's on the play store. Also, Nintendo DS emulation runs fantastic on the device with Drastic(also on the playstore). ;)ToothSlayer - Saturday, August 3, 2013 - link
Looks like it would be good for GBA/NDS Emulation.dabotsonline - Monday, August 5, 2013 - link
"Here we see Tegra 4 in Shield outperforming all of the shipping players on Android, and virtually tying with Adreno 330 in Qualcomm's upcoming MSM8974 (Snapdragon 800 platform)."Isn't the MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 already shipping in the Galaxy S4 LTE-A SHV-E330S for SK Telecom in South Korea?