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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chizow - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
I agree, I think it's an extremely impressive first effort, I just don't know if it will do well enough to warrant future iterations and improvements.danstek - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
This thing has a better WiFi implementation than most laptops and game consoles? What...whyso - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
Actually seems like a win.The question is if there is a market for this sort of device.
Jumangi - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
There's is no question about a market...none exists for this device. Nvidia made this thing to show off the Tegra 4.Dribble - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
Users of the PS Vita, Nintendo DS, etc would disagree with you. There is a market, a pretty big one.darkich - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
..and this device absolutely blows every one of them away.Spunjji - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
Literally. With its fan.-badum tsh-
Jumangi - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
Lolz, The 3D DS is doing well because its Nintendo with their long history of portables but its on a pace well behind it predecessor. The Vita? Its a dead machine for now. Sales are horrible. This device costs more and has far less software gaming support. So looking at reality no their is no market for a $300 portable gaming machine.Touche - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - link
You mean, they made it because nobody else wanted Tegra 4.tabascosauz - Thursday, August 1, 2013 - link
The 4 and 4i Phoenix FFRDs served that purpose, and they did it fairly successfully. So no, the Shield is Nvidia's entry into the DS and Vita world.