The Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 is a great midrange slate, and not just for gaming. It delivers powerful performance, a light and unassuming body, and very good battery liffe. Add to that the fact that it can play more games than any other Android tablet, and you have a winner for gamers and non-gamers alike.

Is the Nvidia Tegra K1 good for gaming?

The Nvidia Shield Tablet K1 is a great midrange slate, and not just for gaming. It delivers powerful performance, a light and unassuming body, and very good battery liffe. Add to that the fact that it can play more games than any other Android tablet, and you have a winner for gamers and non-gamers alike.

How old is the Nvidia Tegra X1?

Released in 2015, Nvidia’s Tegra X1 (codenamed “Erista”) features four ARM Cortex-A57 cores and four unused ARM Cortex-A53 cores, as well as a Maxwell-based graphics processing unit.

Will there be a new Switch in 2021?

The new Switch will be with us in early 2021 according to Bloomberg. The site says Nintendo will “include more computing power and 4K high-definition graphics” and the new model will most likely feature an upgraded but custom version of the Nvidia Tegra chipset based on newer ARM technologies.

What is the difference between Tegra 4 and K1?

Tegra K1 is more power efficient than Tegra 4, and also delivers almost 40% higher CPU performance for the same power consumption as Tegra 4. Tegra K1 is the first mobile processor to use the latest revision (r3 p3) of the ARM Cortex A15 CPU architecture that has several performance and power optimizations.

Does Tegra K1 support DX11?

Both versions of Tegra K1 deliver stunning graphics and visual computing capabi lities powered by the 192-core NVIDIA Kepler GPU. 1 Kepler supports DX11.2 with Hardware Feature Level 11_0. For more details see

What does Tegra K1’s L2 cache do?

Figure 14 On-chip unified L2 cache (the big green Cache block) helps reduce off-chip memory accesses and improves power efficiency Figure 15 Tegra K1 consumes significantly lower power when configured to deliver the same peak performance of competing SoCs

How many ROPS does the Tegra K1 GPU have?

The Tegra K1 GPU includes four ROPs and has a 128KB L2 cache between the ROPs and the memory interface. Figure 8 Full Kepler GPU (left) and Kepler SMX Unit (right) in Tegra K1